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The Tet Offensive

A Brief History with Documents

Edited by William Thomas Allison

With Americans turning against the war in ever greater numbers, struggles for power between the government and the military, and no end in sight to...

Published March 13th 2008 by Routledge.

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The Baltic Question during the Cold War

Edited by John Hiden, Vahur Made, David J. Smith

This edited volume presents a comprehensive analysis of the ‘Baltic question’, which arose within the context of the Cold War, and which has previously received...

Published March 10th 2008 by Routledge.

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Europe and the End of the Cold War

A Reappraisal

Edited by Frederic Bozo, Marie-Pierre Rey, N. Piers Ludlow, Leopoldo Nuti

This book seeks to reassess the role of Europe in the end of the Cold War and the process of German unification.

Much of the existing...

Published January 24th 2008 by Routledge.

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Japanese Diplomacy in the 1950s

From Isolation to Integration

Edited by Makoto Iokibe, Caroline Rose, Junko Tomaru, John Weste

This book provides a detailed examination of Japan's diplomatic relations in the 1950s, an important decade in international affairs when new structures and systems emerged,...

Published January 21st 2008 by Routledge.

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Spirals of Contention

Why India was Partitioned in 1947

By Satish Saberwal

The book examines the social and social psychological processes that led up to the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. It works from a...

Published December 31st 2007 by Routledge India.

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Womanism, Literature, and the Transformation of the Black Community, 1965–1980

By Kalenda C. Eaton

This book examines how cultural and ideological reactions to activism in the post-Civil Rights Black community were depicted in fiction written by Black women writers,...

Published December 13th 2007 by Routledge.

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The New South

New Histories

By J. William Harris

William Harris, the editor of Routledge’s The Old South: New Studies of Society and Culture, aims in The New South to introduce students to the...

Published December 13th 2007 by Routledge.

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Her Husband was a Woman!

Women's Gender-Crossing in Modern British Popular Culture

By Alison Oram

Tracking the changing representation of female gender-crossing in the press, this text breaks new ground to reveal findings where both desire between women and cross-gender...

Published December 6th 2007 by Routledge.

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British Cultural Identities

Edited by Michael Storry, Peter Childs

In British Cultural Identities Mike Storry and Peter Childs assess the degree to which being British impinges on the identity of the many people who...

Published December 6th 2007 by Routledge.

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Racial Discourse and Cosmopolitanism in Twentieth-Century African American Writing

By Tania Friedel

This book engages cosmopolitanism—a critical mode which moves beyond cultural pluralism by simultaneously privileging difference and commonality—in order to examine its particular deployment in the...

Published December 3rd 2007 by Routledge.

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