International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond

By Antony Best, Jussi Hanhimäki, Joseph A. Maiolo, Kirsten E. Schulze

This major global history of the twentieth century is written by four prominent international historians for first-year undergraduate level and upward. Using their thematic and...

Will be published May 29th 2008 by Routledge.

China, East Asia and the Global Economy

Regional and Historical Perspectives

By Takeshi Hamashita

Takeshi Hamashita, arguably Asia's premier historian of the longue durée, has been instrumental in opening a new field of inquiry in Chinese, East Asian and...

Will be published May 31st 2008 by Routledge.

Race and American Political Development

By Joseph E. Lowndes, Julie Novkov, Dorian T. Warren

Race has been present at every critical moment in American political development, shaping political institutions, political discourse, public policy, and its denizens’ political identities. But...

Will be published June 10th 2008 by Routledge.

By Judith M. Richards

Mary Tudor is often written off as a hopeless, twisted queen who tried desperately to pull England back to the Catholic Church that was so...

Will be published June 30th 2008 by Routledge.

Premodern Trade in World History

By Richard L. Smith

'Trade and commerce are among the oldest, most pervasive, and most important of human activities, serving as engines for change in many other human endeavours.

This...

Will be published July 25th 2008 by Routledge.

A History of European Sexuality

By Anna Clark

Desire: A History of European Sexuality is a sweeping survey of sexuality in Europe from the Greeks to the present day. It traces two concepts of...

Will be published July 28th 2008 by Routledge.

The American Economic History Reader

Documents and Readings

Edited by John Malsberger, James Marshall

Economics as a discipline often relies on abstract theories and formulas to explain the functions of national economies. American Economic History: Documents and Readings is a...

Will be published August 2nd 2008 by Routledge.

A Student's Handbook

Edited by Mary Abbott

Degree-level History is characterised, not only by a knowledge and understanding of the human past, but by a battery of skills and qualities which are...

Will be published August 5th 2008 by Routledge.

Origins, Interpretations, Legacies

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Hitler's Germany provides a comprehensive narrative history of Nazi Germany and sets it in the wider context of nineteenth and twentieth century German history. Roderick...

Will be published August 5th 2008 by Routledge.

Reading Primary Sources

The Interpretation of Texts from 19th and 20th Century History

Edited by Miriam Dobson, Benjamin Ziemann

How does the historian approach primary sources? How do interpretations differ? How can they be used to write history?

Reading Primary Sources goes a long way...

Will be published August 13th 2008 by Routledge.

Edward IV

By Hannes Kleineke

The reign of King Edward IV occupies a pivotal place in late medieval English history, marking the transition from a medieval to a renaissance monarchy....

Will be published August 22nd 2008 by Routledge.

Henry VIII

By Lucy Wooding

'The author does a wonderful job of telling a gripping story that also gives a sense of the complexity of the reign and the period...

Will be published September 10th 2008 by Routledge.

Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts

Edited by Samuel Totten, William S. Parsons

Through powerful first-person accounts, scholarly analysis, and compelling narrative, Century of Genocide details the causes and ramifications of the genocides perpetrated in the twentieth century and...

Will be published September 15th 2008 by Routledge.

By Martin Gilbert

From its origins to its terrible legacy, the tortuous course of the Great War is vividly set out in a series of 174 fascinating maps....

Will be published September 15th 2008 by Routledge.

By Roger Eatwell

In recent years the revival of the far right and anti-Semitic, racist and fascist organizations has posed a significant threat throughout Europe and in the...

Will be published October 1st 2008 by Routledge.

A Historical and Political Survey

By Richard McAllister

The new edition of this best-selling textbook provides the most up-to-date single volume history of the European Union from the end of the Second World...

Will be published October 1st 2008 by Routledge.

By José M. Magone

Having been fully revised and updated to reflect the considerable changes in Spain over the last decade, José M. Magone gives a fresh insight into...

Will be published October 8th 2008 by Routledge.

Historians and heritage in contemporary popular culture

By Jerome de Groot

In recent years, history has been described variously as the new rock’n’roll, the new gardening or the new cookery. There is currently a voracious audience...

Will be published October 16th 2008 by Routledge.

By John Richard Thackrah

From the depths of the Cold War to the War on Terror, The Routledge Companion to Military Conflict since 1945 is an in-depth and comprehensive...

Will be published October 22nd 2008 by Routledge.

The Modern Historiography Reader

Western Sources

Edited by Adam Budd

Historiography—the history of historical writing—is one of the most important and basic areas of study for all historians. Yet in such a broad and expanding...

Will be published October 22nd 2008 by Routledge.