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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The Meaning of the Concept of Probability in Application to Finite Sequences (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Hilary Putnam
November 19, 2012
First published in 1990, this is a reissue of Professor Hilary Putnam’s dissertation thesis, written in 1951, which concerns itself with The Meaning of the Concept of Probability in Application to Finite Sequences and the problems of the deductive justification for induction. Written under the ...
The Nation's Cause (Routledge Revivals): French. English and German Poetry of the First World War
1st Edition
By Elizabeth A. Marsland
November 19, 2012
As we approach the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, this timely reissue, first published in 1991, evaluates the function of poetry in wartime Europe, arguing that war poetry must be understood as a social as well as a literary phenomenon. As well as locating the work of well-known...
The Personnel Managers (Routledge Revivals): A Study in the Sociology of Work and Employment
1st Edition
By Tony Watson
November 19, 2012
First published in 1977, this Routledge Revival is a reissue of the first comprehensive sociological study of the role of the personnel manager, which considers both the individual experience of the person working in this field and the role the occupation plays in the management of employing ...
The Political Economy of Reform and Change (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Jan Winiecki
November 19, 2012
First published in 1997, this collection of articles and essays analyses the political economy of reform and change in Eastern Europe during the years of Gorbachev’s perestroika and the years immediately following the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Written by Polish ...
The Silence of Constitutions (Routledge Revivals): Gaps, 'abeyances' and political temperament in the maintenance of government
1st Edition
By Michael Foley
November 19, 2012
First published in 1989, Michael’s Foley’s book deals with the ‘abeyances’ present in both written and unwritten constitutions, arguing that these gaps in the explicitness of a constitution, and the various ways they are preserved, provide the means by which constitutional conflict is continually ...
The Sociology of Art (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Arnold Hauser
November 19, 2012
First published in 1982, The Sociology of Art considers all forms of the arts, whether visual arts, literature, film, theatre or music from Bach to the Beatles. The last book to be completed by Arnold Hauser before his death in 1978, it is a total analysis of the spiritual forces of social ...
Toynbee Hall (Routledge Revivals): The First Hundred Years
1st Edition
By Asa Briggs, Anne Macartney
November 19, 2012
First published in 1984, Toynbee Hall, The First Hundred Years is not just a centenary study, but a personal contribution to the continuing history of Toynbee Hall, which is the Universities’ settlement in East London, and an institution that has inspired respect and affection. Its pioneering role ...
The Radical Tradition (Routledge Revivals): A Study in Modern Revolutionary Thought
1st Edition
By Richard Gombin
November 12, 2012
Originally published in 1978, Richard Gombin’s book traces the recurrent attitudes in the history of the European revolutionary movement which have criticized socialist and communist parties for their authoritarian and bureaucratic tendencies, and which have stressed spontaneity and ...
Main Trends in the Science of Language (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Roman Jakobson
October 26, 2012
First published in Great Britain in 1973, Main Trends in the Science of Language was part of a series of books that resulted from a study carried out by UNESCO in collaboration with national and international research centres in the social sciences, as well as with groups of individual scholars. ...
Afghanistan: The Soviet War (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Ed Girardet
October 22, 2012
First published in 1985, this is a book written at the height of the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Based on five clandestine trips into Afghanistan with the resistance, the book examines why the Soviets invaded in 1979 and what they were seeking to defend. The author ...
Catastrophe Theory and Bifurcation (Routledge Revivals): Applications to Urban and Regional Systems
1st Edition
By Alan Wilson
October 22, 2012
Mathematical models have long been used by geographers and regional scientists to explore the working of urban and regional systems, via a system where the equilibrium point changes slowly and smoothly as the parameters change slowly and smoothly. However, this all changed with the advent of ...
Political Violence, Crises and Revolutions (Routledge Revivals): Theories and Research
1st Edition
By Ekkart Zimmermann
October 22, 2012
First published in 1983, this extraordinary study provides a comprehensive systematic evaluation of cross-national theorizing and quantitative empirical evidence on four interrelated phenomena: Political violence Crises Military Coups D’ État Revolutions. Findings from ...