European History Books

New and Published Books

1. Race, Science, and the Nation

   Reconstructing the Ancient Past in Britain, France and Germany

   By Chris Manias

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   Across the nineteenth century, scholars in Britain, France and the German lands sought to understand their earliest ancestors: the Germanic and Celtic tribes known from classical antiquity, and the newly discovered peoples of prehistory. New fields – philology, archeology and anthropology –...

   Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Understanding European Movements

   New Social Movements, Global Justice Struggles, Anti-Austerity Protest

   Edited by Cristina Flesher Fominaya, Laurence Cox

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   European social movements have been central to European history, politics, society and culture, and have had a global reach and impact. Yet they have rarely been taken on their own terms in the English-language literature, considered rather as counterpoints to the US experience. This has been...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
3. Nazism as Fascism

   Violence, Ideology, and the Ground of Consent in Germany 1930-1945

   By Geoff Eley

   Offering a dynamic and wide-ranging examination of the key issues at the heart of the study of German Fascism, Nazism as Fascism brings together a selection of Geoff Eley’s most important writings on Nazism and the Third Reich. Featuring a wealth of revised, updated and new material, Nazism as...

   Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
4. Ireland’s Great Famine and Popular Politics

   Edited by Enda Delaney, Breandán Mac Suibhne

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History

   Ireland’s Great Famine of 1845–52 was among the most devastating food crises in modern history. A country of some eight-and-a-half-million people lost one million to hunger and disease and another million to emigration. According to Irish land activist Michael Davitt, the starving made little or no...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Spanish Tragedy (RLE Responding to Fascism)

   By Jef Last

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Responding to Fascism

   The Spanish Civil War was one of the pivotal events of the 1930’s, the moment when fascism and socialism came into open conflict. First published in 1939, The Spanish Tragedy recounts the experiences of Jef Last. Activist, poet and novelist, Last might have been the archetypal Republican volunteer...

   Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Rise of Italian Fascism (RLE Responding to Fascism)

   1918-1922

   By A Rossi

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Responding to Fascism

   The rise of Italian fascism is often seen as a pre-condition, as well as a precursor of, later developments in Europe most notably in Germany. As such they were also much discussed in the English speaking world throughout the 1930’s. First published in English in 1938 this book gives an account of...

   Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge
7. Sport and the Transformation of Modern Europe

   States, media and markets 1950-2010

   Edited by Alan Tomlinson, Christopher Young, Richard Holt

   Series: CRESC

   In the modern era, sport has been an important agent, and symptom, of the political, cultural and commercial pressures for convergence and globalization. In this fascinating, inter-disciplinary study, leading international scholars explore the making of modern sport in Europe, illuminating sport...

   Published April 28th 2013 by Routledge
8. The German People versus Hitler (RLE Responding to Fascism)

   By Heinrich Fraenkel

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Responding to Fascism

   The extent to which the Nazi regime was truly representative of the German people was a key issue for external commentators. First published in 1940, The German People versus Hitler sets out to prove that the identification of ‘Germany and the Third Reich, Germanism and Nazism, the German people...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. The Nazi Dictatorship (RLE Responding to Fascism)

   By Roy Pascal

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Responding to Fascism

   Faced with a political movement that was effectively unparalleled many observers found it extremely difficult to work out exactly what kind of regime they were dealing with: whose interests did it serve? First published in 1934, The Nazi Dictatorship argues both that the Nazi regime represented a...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
10. Higher Education in Nazi Germany (RLE Responding to Fascism

    Or Education for World Conquest

    By A Wolf

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Responding to Fascism

    Higher Education in Nazi Germany was first published in 1944, when it was apparent that Germany was likely to lose the war. Developing themes that were to become commonplace in the analysis of totalitarian regimes, it provides an account of how higher education became a means of both installing and...

    Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge