Contemporary History 1945- Books

New and Published Books – Page 1

1. The Iconography of Independence

   'Freedoms at Midnight'

   Edited by Robert Holland, Susan Williams, Terry Barringer

   This book explores the phenomenon of Independence Days. These rituals had complex meanings both in the territories concerned and in Britain as the imperial metropole, where they were extensively reported in the press. The text is concerned with the political management, associated rhetoric and...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Africa's Contemporary Challenges

   The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral

   Edited by Carlos Lopes

   This book reviews Cabral’s intellectual contribution to current debates on race, identity, nation building, democracy, leadership and ethics. The key leader of the national liberation movements of former Portuguese African colonies is considered to be one of their foremost intellectuals...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Perpetrators, Accomplices and Victims in Twentieth-Century Politics

   Reckoning with the Past

   Edited by Anatoly M. Khazanov, Stanley Payne

   Series: Totalitarianism Movements and Political Religions

   These studies examine the ways in which succeeding democratic regimes have dealt with, or have ignored (and in several cases sugar-coated) an authoritarian or totalitarian past from 1943 to the present. They treat the relationship with democratization and the different ways in which collective...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. The Postwar Struggle for Civil Rights

   African Americans in San Francisco, 1945–1975

   By Paul T. Miller

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   The war industries associated with World War II brought unparalleled employment opportunities for African Americans in San Francisco, a city whose African American population grew by over 650% between 1940 and 1945. With this population increase came an increase in racial discrimination directed at...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. British Ways of Counter-insurgency

   A Historical Perspective

   Edited by Matthew Hughes

   This edited collection examines the British ‘way’ in counter-insurgency. It brings together and consolidates new scholarship on the counter-insurgency associated with the end of empire, foregrounding a dark and violent history of British imperial rule, one that stretched back to the nineteenth...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
6. Holocaust Consciousness in Contemporary Britain

   By Andy Pearce

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   The Holocaust is a pervasive presence in British culture and society. Schools have been legally required to deliver Holocaust education, the government helps to fund student visits to Auschwitz, the Imperial War Museum's permanent Holocaust Exhibition has attracted millions of visitors, and Britain...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
7. Revisiting the Colonial Past in Morocco

   Edited by Driss Maghraoui

   Series: History and Society in the Islamic World

   Exploring the concept of ‘colonial cultures,’ this book analyses how these cultures both transformed, and were transformed by, their various societies. Challenging both the colonial vulgate, and the nationalist paradigm, Revisiting the Colonial Past in Morocco, examines the lesser known...

   Published May 27th 2013 by Routledge
8. Constraints and Adjustments in British Foreign Policy (Routledge Revivals)

   By Michael Leifer

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   This book, first published in 1972, offers a detailed analysis of the post-war formulation of foreign policy, as Britain sought to detach itself from its imperialist past and moved towards a European future. The contributors – all experts in their fields – together provide a comprehensive...

   Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge
9. 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
10. Communist Indochina

    By R. B. Smith

    Edited by Beryl Williams

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

    This book examines the history of communist Indochina, from the foundation of the Indochinese Communist Party in 1929-30 to the end of the 1970s. It explores the impact of the Japanese invasion of Indochina in 1940, and the subsequent relationship between the Japanese occupiers and the Vichy French...

    Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge