Routledge Revivals
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Jeremy Bentham: Ten Critical Essays
1st Edition
Edited
By Bhikhu Parekh
November 22, 2012
Jeremy Bentham, the father of utilitarianism, not only created a philosophical system which sought a rational solution to the problems of ethics, but was also concerned with the practical application of his theories to social reforms, administration, education and the law. This reissued ...
Man, State and Deity: Essays in Ancient History
1st Edition
By Victor Ehrenberg
November 22, 2012
First published in 1974, this book is a collection of nine essays written by Victor Ehrenberg between 1925 and 1967, five of which had not been published before. They deal with a number of aspects of Greek and Roman history, and with the nature of ancient history in the East and West. The first ...
Rank and Religion in Tikopia (Routledge Revivals): A Study in Polynesian Paganism and Conversion to Christianity.
1st Edition
By Raymond Firth
November 22, 2012
Originally published in 1970, this book represents a unique study of beliefs and ritual practices in a pagan religion, and of the processes by which a transformation to Christianity took place. Christianity came to the major islands of Polynesia nearly two centuries ago, and within a couple of ...
The Intellectual Revolution of the Seventeenth Century (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
Edited
By Charles Webster
November 22, 2012
Intellectual history and early modern history have always occupied an important place in Past and Present. First published in 1974, this volume is a collection of original articles and debates, published in the journal between 1953 and May 1973, dealing with many aspects of the intellectual history...
Tikopia Ritual and Belief (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Raymond Firth
November 22, 2012
First published in 1967, this book gives some of the fruits of the author's study of Tikopia ways of thought as the result of three field expeditions. Most Polynesians became Christians more than a century ago but Tikopia had a substantial pagan population until quite recent years. This book ...
... and there was telev!s!on (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Ellis Cashmore
November 19, 2012
First published in 1994, this book examines the extent to which television affects the people who watch it. Television is frequently blamed for increased violence, shortened attention spans, the decline of literacy and political indoctrination. In this book, the author considers the theories and ...
Administered Protection in America (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Alan Rugman, Andrew D. M. Anderson
November 19, 2012
First published in 1987, Administered Protection in America follows calls in the United States, at that time, for the protection of American industries and the preservation of jobs threatened by foreign competition. Professor Rugman’s and Dr Anderson’s work presents evidence that the United States ...
Crisis in Europe 1560 - 1660 (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
Edited
By Trevor Aston
November 19, 2012
Past and Present began publication in 1952. It has established itself as one of the leading historical journals, publishing in lively and readable form a wide variety of scholarly and original articles. Much important work by English and foreign scholars on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ...
Earnest Enquirers After Truth (Routledge Revivals): A Gifford Anthology: excerpts from Gifford Lectures 1888-1968
1st Edition
By Bernard E Jones
November 19, 2012
First published in 1970, Bernard E. Jones’s selection of Gifford lectures includes excerpts from the writings of over ninety scholars who occupied a Gifford Chair between 1888 and 1968. Lord Gifford had asked his lecturers to be ‘honest to God’, insisting that they should be ‘earnest enquirers ...
Economics and Demography (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Ian Bowen
November 19, 2012
First published in 1976, Economics and Demography discusses how the world population doubled in the thirty years prior to its publication, and considers the economic implications of this demographic transformation. Professor Bowen, with many years’ experience of research into the economic and...
Primitive Economics of the New Zealand Maori (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Raymond Firth
November 19, 2012
First published in 1929, Raymond Firth’s original and insightful study offers an incredibly detailed account of the social and economic organisation of the Maori people before their contact with Western civilisation. Bridging the gap between anthropology and economics, the work covers the class ...
Studies in Ancient Society (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By M.I. Finley
November 19, 2012
Originally published in 1978, this volume comprises articles previously published in the historical journal, Past and Present, ranging over nearly a thousand years of Graeco-Roman history. The essays focus primarily on the Roman Empire, reflecting the increase, in British scholarship of the ...