Routledge Revivals
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Language and Ideology in Children's Fiction
1st Edition
By John Stephens
June 01, 2026
When children read fiction, they are exposed to the beliefs which inform and structure their society. Books encourage child readers to internalize particular ways of seeing the world and help shape their development as individuals. Although this process forms a key part of their education, it ...
Literature, Language and Change: From Chaucer to the Present
1st Edition
By John Stephens, Ruth Waterhouse
June 01, 2026
How did the rise of polite society change the language of literature? What was the effect of Romanticism on poetic word order? How does knowing the answers to these questions alter the meaning of a text for us? Reading literature is a quest for sense, involving us in a need to grasp both how ...
Oman: The Making of a Modern State
1st Edition
By John Townsend
June 01, 2026
Oman was, until the coup which brought Sultan Qaboos (1940–2020) to power in July 1970, one of the most remote and least known countries in the world. This book, originally published in 1977 and written by someone who worked in Oman for a period spanning the old and new regimes, discusses the ...
Patrick White's Fiction
1st Edition
By William Walsh
June 01, 2026
Originally published in 1977, this study is both a sympathetic insight into the Nobel Prize winning author Patrick White and his work and also a guidebook and map to one of the most complicated and significant bodies of work in 20th century literature. Along with creative energy the qualities of ...
Philosophy and the Human Sciences
1st Edition
By R.J. Anderson, J.A. Hughes, W.W. Sharrock
June 01, 2026
Students of the human sciences – economics, sociology, politics, anthropology, psychology – frequently encounter the names and distinctive theories of philosophers. It is none the less difficult to judge the contribution of such philosophers without a training in philosophy. First published in 1986...
Planning and Politics: The British Experience 1960-1976
1st Edition
By Michael Shanks
June 01, 2026
First published in 1977, Planning and Politics examines Britain’s economic planning experiments during a period when the country’s seemingly intractable economic problems had become one of the major weaknesses of the western world. Since 1960, both Conservative and Labour governments carried out a ...
Psychology and Social Structure
1st Edition
By Barrie G Stacey
June 01, 2026
Originally published in 1976, this book relates psychology to the wider question of the nature and structure of society, particularly Western industrialized societies. It examines various types of man-made inequality, particularly inequality of educational opportunities, class and stratification ...
Public Expenditures in Communist and Capitalist Nations
1st Edition
By Frederic L. Pryor
June 01, 2026
Originally published in 1968, this book was an important contribution both to the economics of the public sector and to the study of comparative economic systems and remains of historical interest. In contrast to many expenditure specialists who deal primarily with aggregated data, the author ...
Regional Concept: The Anglo-American Leaders
1st Edition
By Robert E. Dickinson
June 01, 2026
Originally published in 1976 this book provides a source of essential material on the founding fathers of British and American geography. An assessment of 150 years, the period in which geography became an organized discipline, the book concentrates on the development of the regional concept. This ...
Sherwood Anderson: A Biographical and Critical Study
1st Edition
By Irving Howe
June 01, 2026
Originally published in 1951 and reissued in 1966 this book combines stimulating biography with sound literary criticism in its account of a writer who observed America’s great nineteenth century change from an agrarian to an industrial society. Irving Howe places Anderson in the cultural context ...
Students and Books
1st Edition
By Peter H. Mann
June 01, 2026
First published in 1974, Students and Books examines key questions about British university undergraduate reading habits of the time: What guidance on reading did undergraduates receive from their lecturers? What use did they make of their university libraries? How much money did they spend on ...
Teaching Craft, Design and Technology: Five to Thirteen
1st Edition
By Peter H.M. Williams
June 01, 2026
First published in 1985 (reissuing the second edition of 1990 here), Teaching Craft, Design and Technology provides both specialist and non-specialist teachers with the support and practical guidance necessary to teach and assess Craft, Design and Technology (CDT) throughout the early and middle ...