The Abu Musa and Tunbs in Strategic Context

By Kourosh Ahmadi

The position of the Persian Gulf as the main highway between East and West has long given this region special significance both within the Middle...

Published May 2nd 2008 by Routledge.

Revolution, Social Conflict and Reaction in Liberal Spain, 1916–1923

By Francisco J. Romero Salvado

This book analyzes the decay of Liberal politics in Spain as the regional version of the general crisis that engulfed most of Europe between 1916 and...

Published April 17th 2008 by Routledge.

European Dictatorships 1918–1945

By Stephen J. Lee

Published April 8th 2008 by Routledge.

African-American Activism before the Civil War

The Freedom Struggle in the Antebellum North

Edited by Patrick Rael

Historians have long understood that racial oppression in American history was about more than slavery. On the eve of the Civil War, over five percent...

Published March 26th 2008 by Routledge.

The Rise of Israel

A History of a Revolutionary State

By Jonathan Adelman

The state of Israel is one of the most controversial countries in the world. Yet, its unique creation and rise to power in 1948 has...

Published March 25th 2008 by Routledge.

A Transatlantic History

By Matt Schumann, Karl W. Schweizer

The Seven Years War has been described as the first global conflict in history. It engulfed the Euro-Atlantic world from 1756 to 1763, and engaged...

Published March 10th 2008 by Routledge.

Southern Africa

By Jonathan Farley

Southern Africa surveys the contemporary history of the whole region encompassing economic, social, political, security, foreign policy, health, environmental and gender issues in one short...

Published February 1st 2008 by Routledge.

Soviet Workers and the New Communist Elite

By Simon Pirani

The Russian revolution of 1917 was a defining event of the twentieth century, and its achievements and failures remain controversial in the twenty-first. This book...

Published January 31st 2008 by Routledge.

The Struggle for Free Speech in the United States, 1872-1915

Edward Bliss Foote, Edward Bond Foote, and Anti-Comstock Operations

By Janice Ruth Wood

Passed in 1873, the Comstock Act banned 'obscene' materials from the mail without defining obscenity, leaving it open to interpretation by courts that were hostile...

Published December 25th 2007 by Routledge.

Edited by Dirk Moses, Dan Stone

Previously published as a special issue of Patterns of Prejudice, this is the first book to link colonialism and genocide in a systematic way in...

Published December 24th 2007 by Routledge.