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 ‘libraries’ of 50+ volumes.
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 ...
The Economic Aspects of the History of the Civilization of Japan
1st Edition
By Yosaburo Takekoshi
October 24, 2003
Originally published by Allen & Unwin in 1930 this 3-volume collection brings together writings on the economic aspects of Japan's history. Covering the period from the 1600s until the 1920s this work offers the reader, not only an economic history of the Japanese, but also a social and political ...
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 ...
A History of Russian Philosophy
1st Edition
By V.V. Zenkovsky
June 19, 2003
This set reprints volumes that were orginally published by Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd. in 1953.Landmark volumes at the time of their original publication, these titles do not merely expound the theoretical constructions of Russian philosophers, but also relate these constructions to the general ...
Basil Bernstein: Class, Codes and Control
1st Edition
By Basil Bernstein
June 16, 2003
Basil Bernstein rarely had a good press in the forty-odd years in which he presented his developing theories to the public. Early admiration for his sociolinguistic 'discoveries' - of codes which regulate, at a deep-structural level, family beliefs and behaviours and relationships, as well as ...
Routledge Library Editions: Economics
1st Edition
By Various Authors
June 05, 2003
Routledge is delighted to announce the publication of the Routledge Library Editions: Economics. Re-issuing books originally published between 1920 and 1986, from the Routledge, Allen & Unwin, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Methuen and Hutchison imprints, this landmark series charts the history and ...
Mary Douglas: Collected Works
1st Edition
By Mary Douglas, Mary Douglas
September 05, 2002
Mary Douglas is a central figure within British social anthropology. Studying under Evans-Pritchard at Oxford immediately after the second world war, she formed part of the group of anthropologists who established social anthropology's standing in the world of scholarship. Her works, spanning the ...
I.A. Richards: Selected Works 1919-1938
1st Edition
Edited
By John Constable
February 05, 2002
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
December 20, 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 20, 2000
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
November 15, 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...