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Forthcoming Modern History 1750-1945 Books

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Gandhi's Spinning Wheel and the Making of India

    By Rebecca Brown

    Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

    Gandhi’s use of the spinning wheel was one of the most significant unifying elements of the nationalist movement in India. Spinning was seen as an economic and political activity that could bring together the diverse population of South Asia, and allow the formerly elite nationalist movement to...

    To Be Published June 30th 2012 by Routledge

  2. The Routledge History of the Holocaust

    Edited by Jonathan C. Friedman

    Series: Routledge Histories

    The genocide of Jewish and non-Jewish civilians perpetrated by the German regime during World War Two continues to confront scholars with elusive questions even after nearly seventy years and hundreds of studies. This multi-contributory work is a landmark publication that sees experts renowned in...

    To Be Published July 1st 2012 by Routledge

  3. The Evolution of the Japanese Developmental State

    Institutions locked in by ideas

    By Hironori Sasada

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

    The Japanese economy underwent a fundamental transition from a liberal economy to a developmental state system during World War II, and despite efforts by the American occupation forces to dismantle them after 1945, these elements of the wartime economic system remained in place. Through an...

    To Be Published July 2nd 2012 by Routledge

  4. Japan’s Outcaste Abolition

    The Struggle for National Inclusion and the Making of the Modern State

    By Noah Y. McCormack

    Series: Asia's Transformations

    The Tokugawa Shogunate, which governed Japan for two and a half centuries until the mid-1860s, classed people into hierarchically ranked status groups (mibun). The early Tokugawa rulers legally established these status groups through the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries, adapting and...

    To Be Published July 9th 2012 by Routledge

  5. Shame, Blame, and Culpability

    Crime and violence in the modern state

    Edited by David Nash, Judith Rowbotham, Marianna Muravyeva

    Series: Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories

    This ground-breaking collection of research-based chapters addresses the themes of shame, blame and culpability in their historical perspective in the broad area of crime, violence and the modern state, drawing on less familiar territories such as Russia and Greece, not just on material from...

    To Be Published July 23rd 2012 by Routledge

  6. Protestant Missionaries in the Levant

    Ungodly Puritans, 1820-1860

    By Samir Khalaf

    Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History

    Through focusing on the unintended by-products of New England Puritanism as a cultural transplant in the Levant, this book explores the socio-historical forces which account for the failure of early envoys’ attempts to convert the ‘native,’ population. Early failure in conversion led to later...

    To Be Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge

  7. Frances Trollope

    Beyond “Domestic Manners”

    Edited by Tamara Wagner

    Long overshadowed by her more widely read and reprinted son Anthony, Frances Trollope is almost exclusively remembered for her travel writing and especially for the notoriously controversial Domestic Manners of the Americans. Her impressively prolific career as a writer, however, covered and...

    To Be Published July 31st 2012 by Routledge

  8. Turkish Foreign Policy since 1774

    3rd Edition

    By William Hale

    This revised and updated version of William Hale’s Turkish Foreign Policy 1774-2000 offers a comprehensive and analytical survey of Turkish foreign policy since the last quarter of the eighteenth century, when the Turks’ relations with the rest of the world entered their most critical phase. In...

    To Be Published August 13th 2012 by Routledge

  9. Mergers, Acquisitions and Global Empires

    Tolerance, Diversity and the Success of M&A

    By Ko Unoki

    Companies that have acquired other enterprises through mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have in essence become entities that are akin to the global "empires" of history. In this book, the author weaves a unique narrative that looks at both empires of business created from M&A and global...

    To Be Published August 19th 2012 by Routledge

  10. Latin American Modern Architectures

    Ambiguous Territories

    Edited by Patricio del Real, Helen Gyger

    Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories has thirteen new essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians to help you understand the region’s rich and varied architecture. It will also introduce you to major projects that haven’t been written about in English. A...

    To Be Published August 22nd 2012 by Routledge