A Contemporary Reader

Edited by Sachidananda Mohanty

This book compiles some of the finest writings of Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) — the nationalist, visionary, poet-philosopher. It reflects the range, depth and outreach of...

March 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46093-4 (Routledge India)

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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...

March 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77510-6 (Routledge)

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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...

March 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-39418-5 (Routledge)

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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...

February 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31035-2 (Routledge)

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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...

January 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-43703-5 (Routledge)

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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...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46415-4 (Routledge)

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Concepts for the Comparison Of Dictatorships

Edited by Hans Maier, Michael Schäfer

Available for the first time in English language translation, this is the long-awaited second volume of the three part set on Totalitarianism and Political Religions,...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44705-8 (Routledge)

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Singapore in the Global System

Relationship, Structure and Change

By Peter Preston

This book tracks the phases of Singapore’s economic and political development, arguing that its success was always dependent upon the territories links with the surrounding...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-33190-6 (Routledge)

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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...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96246-9 (Routledge)

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Soviet Karelia

Politics, Planning and Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1920–1939

By Nick Baron

In 1920, Lenin authorised a plan to transform Karelia, a Russian territory adjacent to Finland, into a showcase Soviet autonomous region, to show what could...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-31216-5 (Routledge)

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