Routledge Library Editions
About the Book Series
Routledge Library Editions re-issue volumes from the distinguished and extensive backlist of the many imprints associated with Routledge in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Kegan Paul, Trench & Trubner, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Methuen, Allen & Unwin and Routledge itself. Focusing mainly (but not exclusively) on the Humanities and Social Sciences, Routledge Library Editions offer the individual as well as the institutional purchaser the opportunity to acquire volumes by some of the greatest thinkers and authors of the last 120 years either on a title-by-title basis or as carefully selected mini-sets or extensive โlibrariesโ of 50+ volumes.
Philanthropy in England
1st Edition
By W.K. Jordan
October 17, 2006
In these works Professor Jordan studies the origins of modern social and cultural institutions in England. He is concerned with the momentous shift which occurred in men's aspirations for their society in the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as reflected in the charities which ...
Tides of History
1st Edition
By Jacques Pirenne
October 17, 2006
Jacques Pirenne, the world famous Belgian historian and son of the equally distinguished Henri Pirenne, has here completed a study of universal history, covering the whole of civilization from the beginnings to the most recent events of the 1950's. Professor Pirenne does not confine himself to ...
Routledge Library of British Political History: Labour and Radical Politics 1762-1937
1st Edition
Edited
By Various Editors
May 15, 2006
This set re-issues major writings on British history from the Routledge archives. In scope and detail of coverage, these books comprise a unique contribution to our understanding of over one and a half centuries of British politics....
Economic Theory
1st Edition
By G B Richardson
February 13, 2006
In these two volumes, David P. Levine undertakes the systematic clarification and further development of the theoretical contributions of classical political economy. It focuses on such central issues in economic theory as: * need, value and exchange * capital and its production * the ...
Education Documents: ENGLAND AND WALES 800 TO 1972
1st Edition
By D. W. Sylvester
January 17, 2006
These collections of documentary material illustrate the main themes of educational history from the early middle ages to the late twentieth century. It contains extensive extracts from every major educational document of this period including royal and parliamentary commissions. Each document is ...
The Battle Against Poverty
1st Edition
By Brian Rodgers
December 16, 2005
First Published in 2005. The study of social administration is fundamentally the study of social policy, how it came to be in the developed communities of Western society, how it grew and how it succeeded in achieving the ends which it set out to achieve. This is Volume I from a collection on the ...
Women's Life Writing and Imagined Communities
1st Edition
Edited
By Cynthia Huff
June 23, 2005
This book recognises the great legacy of Women's life writings. They provide an incomparable window into the various cultural and historical communities in which we live. Drawing from novels, memoirs, autobiographies, letters, religious records and many other sources, from many of the finest female...
Von Clausewitz, On War
1st Edition
By General Carl von Clausewitz
November 23, 2004
First published by Routledge & Kegan Paul 1968.Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) was a Prussian General and military writer. His writings are contained in nine volumes, published posthumously, but his fame rests most upon these three volumes, forming his treatise On War. It reveals war, stripped of ...
Jeremy Bentham's Economic Writings
1st Edition
Edited
By Werner Stark
July 12, 2004
This set reprints three classic volumes on Jeremy Bentham's economic writings. Before these volumes were published a great deal of Jeremy Bentham's economic work was completely unknown. All three volumes contain historical introductions and collections of passages from Bentham's non-economic ...
A History of Western Education (Volumes 1, 2 and 3)
1st Edition
By James Bowen
November 26, 2003
This set reprints volumes 1, 2 and 3 of James Bowen's A History of Western Education originally published by Methuen in the 1970s.Volume One: The Ancient World: Orient and Mediterranean 2000B.C - A.D. 1054The volume traces the development of education in the ancient world from the first scribal ...
The Anatomy of Madness
1st Edition
By W.F. Bynum, Roy Porter, Michael Shepherd
November 20, 2003
Originally published in 1985 by The Tavistock Press, this three-volume set covers the history of British and continental European madness and psychiatry from the Renaissance through to Freud. The long time-span covered affords the reader views of the changing understanding of madness and the ...
History of Persia
1st Edition
By Sir Percy Sykes
October 16, 2003
This is a facsimile of a classic history first published by Macmillan in 1915 and issued in two further editions by Routledge and Kegan Paul. Sir Percy Sykes was an explorer, consul, soldier and a spy who lived and travelled in Persia over a period of twenty-five years. This two-volume collection ...