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Victory Day: Reflecting on the post war years

2013-05-09T12:32:02Q

Victory Day (9 May) marks Nazi Germany’s surrender to the Soviet Union in 1945.

We have lots of books that look back on the post-war period, exploring everything from the Khrushchev "Thaw" in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the state of religion after the communist era, the position of rural women in society, the Soviet secret police, the changes in Russian Universities, and the Russian/Soviet intellectual tradition of Oriental and Islamic studies. Why not browse our popular Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series here?

Author Appearance - Geoff Eley at GHIL’s Ethics of Seeing Conference

2013-05-06T14:36:41Q

Geoff Eley, author of Nazism as Fascism, will be taking part in the German Historical Institute London's upcoming Ethics of Seeing conference.

First World War Nursing

2013-05-06T13:52:28Q

Now Available: Thurgood Marshall

2013-05-03T18:08:31Q

What is Microhistory?

2013-05-03T17:56:32Q

The Cuban Missile Crisis

2013-04-18T19:34:51Q

In the News: British Prime Ministers From Balfour to Brown

2013-04-18T19:26:37Q

Recently Reissued: The Pleasures of the Imagination

2013-04-18T18:58:53Q

Widely praised on first release, John Brewer's The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century has recently been reissued by Routledge. From the garrets of Grub Street to the stages of Covent Garden, the book charts the growth of a literary and artistic world fostered by publishers, theatrical and musical impresarios, picture dealers and auctioneers, and presented to the public in coffee-houses, concert halls, libraries, theatres and pleasure gardens.

Click here to be transported!

Thoughts on a Passing: Thatcher in context

2013-04-18T09:57:40Q

Was Margaret Thatcher the greatest peacetime Prime Minister of the twentieth century? In his final blog for Routledge History, Eric J. Evans weighs up the evidence …

Thoughts on a Passing: the controversies of Thatcherism

2013-04-17T07:59:58Q

Margaret Thatcher’s most powerful legacy has perhaps come from the economic change she oversaw from 1979 to 1990. Yet she is often most popularly associated with conflict in the Falklands and strikes in mining communities. What all have in common is the controversy they caused, as Eric J. Evans explains today …

Thoughts on a Passing: Thatcher at home and abroad

2013-04-16T08:33:12Q

The second in our series of reflections on Thatcher and Thatcherism, today Eric J. Evans explores the impact and standing of Margaret Thatcher at home and abroad. From the United States to the USSR, from Northern England to successive Conservative Cabinets, she was a political leader who split opinion …

The Transgender Studies Reader 2

2013-04-15T09:12:18Q

Margaret Thatcher: Thoughts on a Passing

2013-04-15T07:25:27Q

As Britain bids farewell this week to its first female Prime Minister, Routledge introduces the first in a special series of blogs by Eric J. Evans, author of Thatcher and Thatcherism. In this first instalment, Professor Evans considers her policies and their long-term impact on British politics …

Organization of American Historians (OAH) 2013

2013-04-11T16:30:11Q

April 11-14, 2013: Visit Routledge at OAH in San Francisco, California.

New - Women’s and Gender History Catalogue

2013-04-08T08:37:31Q