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2010 is set to be another fantastic year for Routledge History Books. We're looking forward to more top quality textbooks, research, biographies and reference works publishing throughout the year, with new titles on India, the Middle East and the Vietnam War, among other fascinating topics.  The easiest way to browse our publishing is by viewing our online book catalogs - check them out here.

The latest volume in the Routledge Worlds series will publish in August. Edited by Susan Doran and Norman Jones, this fantastic collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history. This world in transformation is brought to life by thirty-eight internationally renowned scholars, and embraces the history, politics, society, literature, religion and economics of the period.

The Elizabethan World will be invaluable reading for all students and scholars of the Elizabethan period. 

Click here to see the full series.

Look out for Routledge author Jonathan Farley's article on Nelson Mandela in next Monday's issue of The Voice:

"He realized that this new state could only be viably established if reconciliation between the races became the political norm and part of Mandela’s greatness lies in his insistence on this. That Africans had suffered all manner of ills under apartheid was not to be denied, but it was only Mandela, with his 27 years in prison as a result of his opposition to the system, who was in a real moral position to make this appeal to the masses and have it heeded by them. This lack of resentment and desire for revenge, given all that he himself had suffered, makes him a remarkable and indeed a great man. That he has lived to see his country host the World Cup must have given him much pleasure: such an event could never have occurred in the South Africa of yesteryear...."

Jonathan is the author of Southern Africa, a survey of the contemporary history of the whole region.

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