Bücher der Reihe Routledge Studies in Modern History

This book draws together international contributors to analyse a wide range of aspects of mining history across the globe.

This wide-ranging interdisciplinary book examines acts of union and disunion in local, national and international nineteenth century settings, in Britain, Europe and the United States. It explores themes in relation to political leadership, trade unions, emancipation, religion and law.

This original and new study of senates in small powers across the North Atlantic shows that the establishment and reform of these upper legislative houses have followed remarkably parallel trajectories.

This book provides a comparative and transnational examination of the complex and multifaceted experiences of anti-labour mobilization, from the bitter social conflicts of the pre-war period, through the epochal tremors of war and revolution, and the violent spasms of the 1920s and 1930s.

This book compares processes of pacification leading to the end of tribal warfare in seven societies from all over the world between the 19th and 21st centuries. It shows that pacification needs to be approached as the result of specific interactions between state actors and non-state local groups.

This book introduces the conceptual framework of the `Hispanic-Anglosphere¿ to open a window into the interactions between the British Isles and the global Hispanic world. It offers insights on trade, pandemics, the arts, education, language, politics, the press, religion, biodiversity, philanthropy, anti-slavery and imperialism.

Deploying empirical studies from early Imperial China to the global security landscape after the Nine-Eleven terrorist attacks, 17 scholars offer a comprehensive overview of the history of surveillance that sheds new light on the hidden mechanisms of power that impels surveillance as societal phenomenon.