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.
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Sir Walter Scott on Novelists and Fiction (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
Edited
By Ioan Williams
March 22, 2012
First published in 1968, this collection of essays and reviews represents all that Sir Walter Scott wrote on the subject of novels and novelists, and will be invaluable for the study of Scott, both as novelist and critic. The work provides a survey of the novel at an important ...
Socialism in a Cold Climate
1st Edition
Edited
By John Griffith
March 22, 2012
This important and stimulating book is a thoughtful contribution to the debate about the first steps that needed to be taken to build a socialist society in the cold climate of the 1980s. It covers topics as diverse as concepts of equality and fairness, sex discrimination, economic policy, health ...
The Constitution of Poverty (Routledge Revivals): Towards a genealogy of liberal governance
1st Edition
By Mitchell Dean
March 22, 2012
Firts published in 1991, this book looks at how capitalism has affected the organization of the poor. It also explores what the links are between notions of poverty and notions personal responsibility, philanthropy, morality and state forms. An intruiging work for anyone interested in the ...
The Czechoslovak Economy 1918-1980 (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Alice Teichova
March 22, 2012
Originally published in 1988, this book assesses social and economic change against the background of the international economy and the dramatic political events of the twentieth century - the break up of the Habsburg Monarchy, the Peace Treaty of Versailles, the Munich Agreement of 1938 and the ...
The Malaysian Economy (Routledge Revivals): Spatial perspectives
1st Edition
By George Cho
March 22, 2012
First published in 1990, this study analyses the development and success of the Malaysian economy since independence in 1957. The author explores various facets of the contemporary centrally-planned development policy and the colonial inheritance from which it derives. It becomes evident that rural...
The Material Word (Routledge Revivals): Some theories of language and its limits
1st Edition
By David Silverman
March 22, 2012
First published in 1980, this reissue is a study of the sociology of language, which aims to bridge the gap between textbook and monograph by alternating chapters of explication and analysis. A chapter outlining a particular theory and suggesting general criticisms is followed by a chapter offering...
The Status of Everyday Life (Routledge Revivals): A Sociological Excavation of the Prevailing Framework of Perception
1st Edition
By Fiona Mackie
March 22, 2012
First published in 1985, this reissue indicates the extent to which our basic perceptual structure is bound to and limited by a particular underlying perceptual patterning. Fiona Mackie reaches deeper even than the Habermasian approach to rationality by tracing an underlying structuring of ...
The World Shipping Industry (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Ernst Gabriel Frankel
March 22, 2012
First published in 1987, this book surveys the state of the world shipping industry worldwide and the problems confronting it. It reviews the expanding role of developing countries in shipping and evaluates the contribution of shipping to development. The changes in the institutional and ...
Towards a Radical Democracy (Routledge Revivals): The Political Economy of the Budapest School
1st Edition
By Douglas Brown
March 22, 2012
Originally published in 1988, this is the first systematic account of the writings of Hungarian dissidents and former students of George Lukacs, collectively known as the 'Budapest School'. Dr. Brown demonstrates the importance of their work in contributing to a logically consistent yet realistic ...
Women's Employment and the Capitalist Family (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Ben Fine
March 22, 2012
First published in 1992, Women's Employment and the Capitalist Family is an analysis of the contemporary political interest in the position of women. The author critically assesses much of the literature examining the rapidly changing lives of women and contributes to it by offering an explanation ...
An Objective Theory of Probability (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Donald Gillies
March 02, 2012
This reissue of D. A. Gillies highly influential work, first published in 1973, is a philosophical theory of probability which seeks to develop von Mises’ views on the subject. In agreement with von Mises, the author regards probability theory as a mathematical science like mechanics or ...
Chaucer and the Social Contest (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Peggy Knapp
March 02, 2012
First published in 1990, Chaucer and the Social Contest takes a fresh view of The Canterby Tales, by placing the storytelling contest among the Canterbury pilgrims within the larger social contests in the changing England of the late fourteenth century. The author focuses on three crucial fields of...