First Strike

Preemptive War in Modern History

By Matthew J. Flynn

Preemptive warfare is the practice of attempting to avoid an enemy’s seemingly imminent attack by taking military action against them first. It is undertaken in...

Published May 5th 2008 by Routledge.

Atlas of Medieval Britain

By Christopher Daniell

Christopher Daniell's Atlas of Medieval Britain presents a sweeping visual survey of Britain from the Roman occupation to 1485.

Annotated throughout with clear commentary, this...

Published May 3rd 2008 by Routledge.

By Joseph Ferguson

This book provides a comprehensive survey of Japanese-Russian relations from the end of the Russo-Japanese War until the present. Based on extensive original research in...

Published April 3rd 2008 by Routledge.

Terror, Liberal War and the Crisis of Global Order

Edited by Louiza Odysseos, Fabio Petito

Presenting the first critical analysis of Carl Schmitt's The Nomos of the Earth and how it relates to the epochal changes in the international system...

Published April 1st 2008 by Routledge.

The Extreme Right in Western Europe

By Paul Hainsworth

The Extreme Right in Western Europe is a concise introduction to one of the most persistent facets of late twentieth-century history, politics and society.

The legacy...

Published March 17th 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.

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.

World History

Journeys from Past to Present

By Candice Goucher, Linda Walton

Using a thematic approach supported by a variety of evidence and multidisciplinary interpretations, World History: Journeys from Past to Present provides a dynamic framework for the study...

Published January 10th 2008 by Routledge.

The Search for Negotiated Peace

Women's Activism and Citizen Diplomacy in World War I

By David S. Patterson

The First World War was an epic event of huge proportions that lasted over four years and involved the armies of more than twenty nations,...

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.