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.
I.A. Richards: Selected Works 1919-1938
1st Edition
Edited
By John Constable
December 20, 2001
I. A. Richards was the most influential of the first generation of academic literary theorists. This definitive collection of his writing between 1919 and 1938 shows that Richards' position was distinct from the emerging consensus in university literary education.Richards is often misunderstood as ...
Women's Source Library
1st Edition
Edited
By Various
October 25, 2001
First published by Routledge Kegan & Paul 1986-1991, this new reprint collection makes available once again the most important primary sources from the Fawcett library in an accessible resource. The pamphlets and papers gathered here illustrate major debates on a range of issues including suffrage...
Foreign Policies of the Great Powers
1st Edition
By Various Authors
September 27, 2001
This is a re-issue of the former Routledge & Kegan Paul series The Foreign Policies of the Great Powers.Making use of archival material, each title provides a unique slant on the foreign policies of world powers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....
The Victorian City
1st Edition
Edited
By H.J. Dyos, Michael Wolff
December 03, 1998
Originally published in two volumes, The Victorian City was a major landmark, particularly in the study of the social and intellectual attitudes of Victorian society to the challenge of urbanization. Unique in its many-sided approach to the total phenomenon of the city, this set deals on many ...
The Victorian Countryside
1st Edition
Edited
By Gordon Mingay
October 12, 2000
Following the success of The Victorian City, we are delighted to announce the forthcoming reprint of The Victorian Countryside. Originally published in two volumes, this set represents a major landmark in the social history of the United Kingdom. It provides a detailed and authoritative survey of a...
A History of British Folklore
1st Edition
By Richard M. Dorson
February 18, 1999
This set re-issues classic works on folklore by Richard M. Dorson which trace the historical development of the idea of folklore from the sixteenth century to the First World War. The set also brings together theoretical writings from some of the most influential folklorists. The following titles ...
The Linguistic Atlas of England
1st Edition
Edited
By Harold Orton, Stewart Sanderson, John Widdowson
January 01, 1978
This fascinating record of how English is spoken in England is now being reprinted. Over 400 maps detail differences in phonology, lexicon, morphology and syntax. The Atlas provides a unique survey of the linguistic geography of England.This volume was inspired by the English Dialect Survey which ...
The Revels History of Drama
1st Edition
Edited
By T.W. Craik, Clifford Leech, Lois Potter
January 02, 1997
This work provides a comprehensive account of drama written and performed in English from its roots in the medieval mystery plays to the progress of drama in Britain and America since 1945. The volumes, which are arranged chronologically, critically examine the drama, playwrights, actors and ...
Prototractatus: An early version of Tractatus Logio-Philosophicus
1st Edition
Edited
By Brian F. McGuiness, Ludwig Wittgenstein, T. Nyberg, G .H. von Wright
October 06, 1971
Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, first published in 1921, has had a profound influence on modern philosophic thought. Prototractatus is a facsimile reproduction of an early version of Tractatus, only discovered in 1965. The original text has a parallel English translation and the text...
Collected Works of John Stuart Mill
1st Edition
Edited
By John M. Robson
July 26, 1996
The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill took thirty years to complete and is acknowledged as the definitive edition of his writings and as one of the finest works editions ever completed.Mill's contributions to philosophy, economics and history, and in the roles of scholar, politician and ...
The Discourses of Niccolo Machiavelli
1st Edition
Edited
By Father Leslie J. Walker
July 04, 1991
Previously out of print for three years, this classic translation by the late Father Leslie J. Walker has long been acknowledged as the best English language version of this seminal work in political theory....