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.
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.
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Feminism and Socialism in China
1st Edition
By Elisabeth Croll
April 05, 2013
First published in 1978, Feminism and Socialism in China explores the inter-relationship of feminism and socialism and the contribution of each towards the redefinition of the role and status of women in China. In her history of the women’s movement in China from the late nineteenth century onwards...
The Byzantine Achievement (Routledge Revivals): An Historical Perspective, A.D. 330-1453
1st Edition
By Robert Byron
April 05, 2013
First published in 1929, this highly influential study offers a historical perspective on the Byzantine Empire, from the establishment of Constantinople by Emperor Constantine around 330 AD, through to the fall of Constantinople at the hands of the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Byron’s work ...
The Heyday of Sir Walter Scott (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Donald Davie
April 05, 2013
First published in 1961, this book examines a number of works popular in the Romantic period, during the heyday of Sir Walter Scott in the early part of the nineteenth century. Encompassing works by the likes of Alexander Pushkin, Sir Walter Scott, Adam Mickiewicz and James Fenimore Cooper, this ...
Iran Under the Ayatollahs (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Dilip Hiro
February 14, 2013
First published in 1985, this is a comprehensive study off the Middle East's most strategic country, set against the background of the Islamic heritage of Iran and the rise and fall of the Pahlavi dynasty. The author describes the various phases through which the Islamic revolution has passed, ...
The Transformation of England (Routledge Revivals): Essays in the economic and social history of England in the eighteenth century
1st Edition
By Peter Mathias
February 12, 2013
First published in 1979, The Transformation of England discusses the creation in late eighteenth century England of the industrial system and thereby the present world. Professor Mathias poses questions about the nature of industrialization, social change and historical explanation, issues that are...
An Essay on India (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Robert Byron
February 11, 2013
First published in 1931, Robert Byron’s Essay on India evaluates the state of colonial rule in India and analyses the contemporary problems facing the country. Based upon the Byron’s travelling experiences within India in 1929 as a correspondent for the Daily Express, the work explores ...
Can Russia Change? (Routledge Revivals): The USSR Confronts Global Interdependence
1st Edition
By Walter Clemens
February 11, 2013
First published in 1989, this ground-breaking book sought to determine whether contemporary Russia had the capacity to change and if, in so doing, it could alter the complex web of East-West relations from a zero-sum struggle to a state of peaceful competition and mutual security. In order to ...
Decision Making (Routledge Revivals): A case study of the decision to raise the Bank Rate in September 1957
1st Edition
By Richard A. Chapman
February 11, 2013
Originally published in 1968, Richard Chapman’s pioneering work illuminates the process of decision making by analysis of a particular example: the decision to raise the Bank Rate in September, 1957. The legal responsibility for a decision may be easy to pinpoint; in this case the Court of ...
Leadership in the British Civil Service (Routledge Revivals): A study of Sir Percival Waterfield and the creation of the Civil Service Selection Board
1st Edition
By Richard A. Chapman
February 11, 2013
First published in 1984, this book examines the style of leadership amongst senior civil servants and its impact on administrative reform by investigating the work of Sir Percival Waterfield who was First Civil Service Commissioner from 1939 to 1951. He was responsible for setting up the Civil ...
Open Government (Routledge Revivals): A Study of the Prospects of Open Government Within the Limitations of the British Political System
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard A. Chapman, Michael Hunt
February 11, 2013
First published in 1987 this book considers the practical implications of increasing public access to official information in Britain, both from the perspective of increasing Freedom of Information and reforming Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act. It draws attention to the practical problems ...
Plato (Routledge Revivals): Plato: The Written and Unwritten Doctrines
1st Edition
By Charles Allen Dinsmore
February 11, 2013
First published in 1974, J. N. Findlay's work argues persuasively for a new interpretation of the Platonic writings. He believes that Plato's Unwritten Doctrines were present in the background of all the great philosopher's mature written work....
Raymond Williams on Television (Routledge Revivals): Selected Writings
1st Edition
By Raymond Williams
February 11, 2013
First Published in 1989, this work is based around a monthly TV column which Raymond Williams wrote for The Listener between 1968 and 1972. Those were the years of the Prague Spring, of anti-Vietnam war demonstrations, of fighting in Cambodia and Northern Ireland, of hope for McGovern in the United...