Routledge Revivals
About the Book Series
Are there elusive titles that you need and have been trying to source for years but thought that you would never be able to find?
Well this may be the end of your quest – here is a fantastic opportunity for you to discover past brilliance and purchase previously out of print and unavailable titles by some of the world’s most eminent academic scholars.
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.
The programme draws upon the illustrious backlists of Kegan Paul, Trench & Trubner, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Methuen, Allen & Unwin and Routledge itself.
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.
If you are interested in Revivals in the Behavioral Sciences, please visit
routledge.com/Psychology-Revivals/book-series/PSYREVIVALS
Romans and Blacks (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Lloyd Thompson
June 10, 2015
Roman literature seems to provide plenty of instances of contempt towards foreign or black individuals, but it is an untenable assumption that such distaste amounts to a racist attitude, particularly considering how elusive the definitions of ‘race’ and ‘racism’ are. Making extensive use of ...
Rome and Its Empire (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Stephen Johnson
June 10, 2015
The legacy of Rome is still very much with us in Europe. It forms part of our cultural backdrop, and is enshrined in the European mind, whether through classical literature, education and jurisprudence, or spectacular ruins. In Rome and Its Empire, first published in 1989, Stephen Johnson examines ...
Seneca (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Costa C.D.N.
June 10, 2015
This volume, first published in 1974, offers a selection of modern perspectives on Seneca, covering his prose treatises, his letters and his tragedies. For centuries literary and philosophical circles had to take Seneca seriously, even if they could not always respect him, and although his ...
Shakespeare's America, America's Shakespeare (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Michael D. Bristol
June 10, 2015
First published in 1990, this title explores the nature of the interaction between Shakespeare and American culture. Shakespeare stands at the center of an elaborate institutional reality, closely tied to both cultural and ideological production. His plays, Michael Bristol asserts, help to ...
Sophocles (Routledge Revivals): The Classical Heritage
1st Edition
By Roger Dawe
June 10, 2015
Sophocles: The Classical Heritage, first published in 1996, contains a diverse collection of reflections, ranging from the 16th century to the 20th, on one of the three great Attic tragedians, the author of perhaps the most famous play of all time. With the entire notion of ‘Western culture’ under ...
The Coming of Rome (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By John Wacher
June 10, 2015
The Coming of Rome, first published in 1979, examines some basic features of Roman Britain: the cities, the towns, and the monuments of an urban culture. J.S. Wacher considers the evidence, mainly from inscriptions, of the people who inhabited or visited Britain during approximately the first two ...
The Origins of Civilization in Greek and Roman Thought (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Sue Blundell
June 10, 2015
It has been much disputed to what extent thinkers in Greek and Roman antiquity adhered to ideas of evolution and progress in human affairs. Did they lack any conception of process in time, or did they anticipate Darwinian and Lamarckian hypotheses? The Origins of Civilization in Greek and Roman ...
The Roman Mother (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Suzanne Dixon
June 10, 2015
The Roman Mother, first published in 1988, traces the traditional Roman attitude towards mothers to its republican origins, examining the diverse roles and the relative power and influence associated with motherhood. The importance of the paterfamilias with his wide-ranging legal rights and ...
The Third City (Routledge Revivals): Philosophy at War with Positivism
1st Edition
By Borna Bebek
June 10, 2015
The Third City, first published in 1982, offers an innovative response to the troubled relationship between Western philosophy, as it has been conducted since the Renaissance, and the everyday lives of the communities in which we live. Bebek contends that the model of philosophical reflection is to...
Themes in Geographic Thought (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
Edited
By Milton Harvey, Brian Holly
June 10, 2015
Themes in Geographic Thought, first published in 1981, explores in breadth and depth the interrelationships among the history of Geography, geographic thought, and methodology, specifically focusing on the interactions between geographical research and various contemporary philosophical schools: ...
Two Centuries of Irish History (Routledge Revivals): 1691-1870
1st Edition
Edited
By R. Barry O'Brien
June 10, 2015
This collection of papers, first published in 1888, presents the history of Ireland as it unfolded from the Treaty of Limerick in 1691 until the Land Act of 1870 and the Home Rule Movement. Written at a time of great national interest in the ‘Irish Problem’, Two Centuries of Irish History tells the...
Indian Ocean Research Volumes
1st Edition
By Dennis Rumley, Sanjay Chaturvedi
May 29, 2015
The 2 volumes include ‘Geopolitical Orientations, Regionalism and Security in the Indian Ocean’ and ‘Energy Security and the Indian Ocean Region’. Geopolitical Orientations, Regionalism and Security in the Indian Ocean- First published in 2004, this book is the inaugural volume of the Indian Ocean ...