Routledge Revivals
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A History of Rhodesia
1st Edition
By Robert Blake
January 19, 2026
First published in 1977, A History of Rhodesia is a history of the origins and course of modern European occupation of ‘Southern Rhodesia’, ‘Rhodesia’ as it has been termed since the old ‘Northern Rhodesia’ became independent under the name Zambia in 1963. Robert Blake describes the years of the ...
A History of Spain
1st Edition
By Harold Livermore
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1958, this was the first scholarly anglophone history of Spain. It covers the whole story from Spanish pre-history onwards and includes a full treatment of the various states until their fusion as a modern nation, and on through the Civil War until the late 20th Century. The...
A History of the Carpenters Company
1st Edition
By B W E Alford, T Barker
January 19, 2026
First published in 1968, A History of the Carpenters Company deals with developments in the carpenter’s craft as well as with the Company's own internal growth. It examines the effectiveness of efforts to enforce regulations dealing with wages, apprenticeship, and building, which emanated from both...
A History of the Modern Church: From 1500 to the Present Day
1st Edition
By J. W. C. Wand
January 19, 2026
First published in 1930, A History of the Modern Church is a scholarly and readable account of the church from the beginning of the Reformation to modern times. It traces the rise of many attitudes towards life, many conceptions of the faith, and many ecclesiastical systems. This book will be of ...
A History of the Public Library Movement in Great Britain and Ireland
1st Edition
By John Minto
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1932, A History of the Public Library Movement in Great Britain and Ireland is concerned with the rise and progress of the public library as it stood at that time. The establishment and growth of the public library may be viewed as part of the great social movement for the ...
A Hundred Years of District Nursing
1st Edition
By Mary Stocks
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1960, this is a graphic and humorous story of district nursing from its beginning, with the first nurse engaged to work in the slums of nineteenth-century Liverpool, up to the time of publication. Mrs Stocks records how ‘our nurse’ had been and still was a familiar and ...
A Long Time Burning: The History of Literary Censorship in England
1st Edition
By Donald Thomas
January 19, 2026
Censorship of the written word has proved a constant source for debate and argument. To cut or not to cut is a question with a long and fascinating history. First published in 1969, A Long Time Burning is an account of the political, religious, and moral censorship of literature, in the context of ...
A Shaping Joy: Studies in the Writer's Craft
1st Edition
By Cleanth Brooks
January 19, 2026
In A Shaping Joy (originally published in 1971), Cleanth Brooks writes about modern literature and the criticism that has been developed to deal with it. Most of the essays concern poets and novelists of the twentieth century, but there are also discussions of nineteenth-century American writers ...
A. E. Housman: The Critical Heritage
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip Gardner
January 19, 2026
First published in 1992, A. E. Housman: The Critical Heritage brings together the most important and significant critical response to the poetry of A.E. Housman from the time of his writing to 1951. It contains ninety-four items—articles, reviews, and comments which provide an accurate picture of ...
Abortion Freedom: A Worldwide Movement
1st Edition
By Colin Francome
January 19, 2026
First published in 1984, Abortion Freedom explains the main reasons for widespread international liberalisation of abortion laws. Colin Francome points out that the birth control movement had its roots in a concern with overpopulation and that this is still a crucial issue today. A major change, ...
Adventures in Philosophy
1st Edition
By J. C. Wordsworth
January 19, 2026
First published in 1925, Adventures in Philosophy presents a series of essays dealing with some of the chief problems of metaphysics and beginning with a defence of that somewhat unpopular pursuit. The first part of the book is mainly constructive in character, and not only attempts to put as ...
Adventurous Film Making
1st Edition
By J. David Beal
January 19, 2026
Adventurous Film Making (1980) looks at some more ambitious and interesting techniques and shows how these serve film makers in expressing their ideas. This volume spans every kind of film: travel, action, recreations of the past, visual and verbal comedy, the natural world, cartoon and puppet ...