Routledge Revivals
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Drawing from over 100 years of innovative, cutting-edge publishing, Routledge Revivals is an exciting programme whereby key titles from the distinguished and extensive backlist of the many acclaimed imprints associated with Routledge will be re-issued.
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Routledge Revivals spans the whole of the Humanities and Social Sciences, and includes works by some of the world’s greatest thinkers including Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Simone Weil, Martin Buber, Karl Jaspers and Max Beloff.
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Routledge Revivals: The British Christian Women's Movement (2002): A Rehabilitation of Eve
1st Edition
By Jenny Daggers
March 31, 2021
The British Christian Women’s Movement charts the British Christian women’s movement and its inception in the post-sixties decades, amid new currents generated in the British denominational churches, and the wider current of Women’s Liberation. Focusing on Christian women’s concern with the ...
Routledge Revivals: The Dilemma of Qualitative Method (1989): Herbert Blumer and the Chicago Tradition
1st Edition
By Martyn Hammersley
March 31, 2021
Originally published in 1989, The Dilemma of Qualitative Method is a stimulating guide to the discussion of qualitative versus quantitative approaches to social research, originated in nineteenth-century debates about the relationship between the methods of history and natural science. One of the ...
Routledge Revivals: The Greatest Happiness Principle (1986): An Examination of Utilitarianism
1st Edition
By Lanny Ebenstein
March 31, 2021
First published in 1991, The Greatest Happiness Principle traces the history of the theory of utility, starting with the Bible, and running through Plato, Aristotle, and Epicurus. It goes on to discuss the utilitarian theories of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill in detail, commenting on the ...
Routledge Revivals: The Making of Urban Scotland (1978)
1st Edition
By Ian Adams
March 31, 2021
Originally published in 1978, The Making of Urban Scotland traces the evolution of towns from their prehistoric origins to the present day. Most of the material is based on research in Scotland’s archives, housed in the Scottish Record Office. Special emphasis is placed on the causes of economic ...
Routledge Revivals: The Morality of Politics (1972)
1st Edition
Edited
By Bhikhu Parekh, R.N. Berki
March 31, 2021
The Morality of Politics addresses the issues of politics and morality. The book asks the questions, has politics got a moral basis? Has morality anything to do with politics? Comprised of a collection of unique essays, the book looks at the idea that politics shies away from the discussing the ...
Routledge Revivals: Urban Land and Property Markets in Italy (1996)
1st Edition
By Gastone Ave
March 31, 2021
Originally published in 1996, Urban Land and Property Markets describes the intricacies of the Italian urban planning system and the interconnections between the property sector, the national economy and recent historical developments, including the new challenges facing Italy after the early 1990s...
Routledge Revivals: Victorian Culture and the Idea of the Grotesque (1999)
1st Edition
Edited
By Colin Trodd, Paul Barlow, David Amigoni
March 31, 2021
Originally published in 1999, Victorian Culture and the Idea of the Grotesque is the first fully interdisciplinary study of the subject and examines a wide range of sources and materials to provide new readings between ‘style’ and ‘concept’. The book provides an original analysis of key ...
Routledge Revivals: What's Wrong With Ethnography? (1992): Methodological Explorations
1st Edition
By Martyn Hammersley
March 31, 2021
Originally published 1992 What's Wrong With Ethnography? provides a fresh look at the rationale for and distinctiveness of ethnographic research in sociology, education and related fields. Relativism, critical theory, the uniqueness of the case study and the distinction between qualitative and ...
Rural Change and Planning: England and Wales in the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By Gordon Cherry, Alan Rogers
March 31, 2021
Originally published in 1996 Rural Change and Planning describes the turbulent changes that have occurred in rural England and Wales since the outbreak of the First World War. The book describes the changes from an agriculturally-dominated countryside to one which has had to increasingly adapt to ...
Sociological Readings and Re-readings (1996)
1st Edition
By Paul Atkinson
March 31, 2021
Published in 1996, this book comprises a number of essays by Paul Atkinson in which he reflects on processes of reading and writing in the social sciences. Topics covered include: ethnographers’ ‘confessions’, an analysis of the style of Erving Goffman, a reflection of his own experiences of ...
Sortals and the Subject-predicate Distinction (2001)
1st Edition
By Michael Durrant, Stephen Horton
March 31, 2021
This title was first published in 2001. The problem of the subject-predicate distinction has featured centrally in much of modern philosophy of language and philosophical logic, and the distinction is taken as basic or fundamental in modern philosophical logic. Michael Durrant seeks to demonstrate ...
Studies in Contemporary Metaphysics
1st Edition
By L. T. Hobhouse
March 31, 2021
Originally published in 1920, this title wrestles with the critical conflict in modern philosophy of whether philosophers should employ pure reason in a world of abstracts or, rather, should rely upon experience and rationality to examine the actual world. Hoernlé argues for the latter and ...