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Women in European Culture and Society: A Sourcebook includes a range of transnational sources which encompass the history of women in Europe from the beginning of the eighteenth century right up to the present day. Including documents from across Europe, from France and Germany to Estonia, Spain...
To Be Published November 17th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Studies in Intelligence
This book is an account of the foundation, organisation and activities of the NATO Information Service (NATIS) during the Cold War, and the first attempt to explore the interaction between intelligence and propaganda within an international organisation....
To Be Published November 29th 2013 by Routledge
This hugely successful, ground-breaking book is the first introductory textbook on the Modern Middle East to foreground the urban, rural, cultural and gender histories of the region over its political and economic history. Distancing himself from more traditional modernising approaches, Ilan...
To Be Published November 29th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
The Routledge Handbook of European Sociology explores the main aspects of the work and scholarship of European sociologists during the last sixty years (1950-2010), a period that has shaped the methods and identity of the sociological craft. European social theory has produced a vast...
To Be Published December 29th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Remembering the Modern World
The United Nations' adoption in 1948 of the Genocide Convention marked a radical reconceptualisation of international criminal law. Through the admittedly contentious definition of genocide as the intentional destruction of a group on the basis of national, ethnic, racial or religious membership,...
To Be Published December 29th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Remembering the Modern World
The Cold War shaped the second half of the twentieth century and two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of eastern European communism, Cold War legacies continue to play crucial roles in defining national identities and determining international relations around the globe....
To Be Published December 29th 2013 by Routledge
Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
Lithuania suffered in the course of the twentieth century successive horrific invasions, significant border changes and large scale population displacements. These included not just Stalin’s invasion in 1940, then Hitler’s invasion, but also the elimination of the substantial Jewish minority, the...
To Be Published December 29th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Critical Moments in American History
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 signaled a shift in official and unofficial negotiations of race in America. Signed by Lyndon Johnson to secure African American voters their legally allowed but historically denied right to vote, the Act symbolized the government's recognition of widespread, systemic...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Israeli History, Politics and Society
This book recounts the narrative of how Israeli policy towards the Palestinian refugee problem was formulated from the time it first developed at the beginning of 1948, following the first Arab-Israeli war ("Israel's War of Independence"), until the mid-1950s, when that policy's basic principles...
To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Central Asia Research Forum
This book analyses the ways in which expressions of political and religious authority have evolved and how they have been adapted to different political contexts in Central Asia. It offers a comprehensive overview of the history of the Ismaili community in Tajikistan, identifies traditional forms...
To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
