Routledge Revivals
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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?
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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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Towards a Critical Sociology (Routledge Revivals): An Essay on Commonsense and Imagination
1st Edition
By Zygmunt Bauman
April 13, 2011
For the better part of its history sociology shared with commonsense its assumption of the ‘nature-like’ character of society – and consequently developed as the science of unfreedom. In this powerful and engaging work, first published in 1976, Professor Bauman outlines the historical roots of such...
A History of Europe (Routledge Revivals): From the Invasions to the XVI Century
1st Edition
By Henri Pirenne
March 14, 2011
First published in 1939, this is a reissue of Henri Pirenne's extremely popular and influential history of Europe in the middle ages. It begins with the Barbarian and Musulman invasions in the fifth century AD, which signalled the end of the Roman world in the West, and&...
Bolshevism (Routledge Revivals): An International Danger
1st Edition
By Paul Miliukov
March 14, 2011
First published in 1920, Paul Miliukov’s book concerns the international nature of Bolshevism, both in terms of its ideologically internationalist doctrine of World Revolution and in terms of the attempts to spread Bolshevism in the period immediately preceding and following the First World War and...
Environment, Development, Agriculture: Integrated Policy Through Human Ecology
1st Edition
By Bernhard Glaeser
March 14, 2011
This reissue, first published in 1995, focuses on philosophy and social science in human ecology, and includes case studies dealing with the problems of political implementation of development plans and schemes. Part One deals with theory, including a comprehensive introduction to the field and an ...
Gold Prices and Wages (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By J. A. Hobson
March 14, 2011
First published in 1913, this Routledge Revivals title reissues J. A. Hobson’s seminal analysis of the causal link between the rise in gold prices and the increase in wages and consumer buying power in the early years of the Twentieth Century. Contrary to the assertions of some notable contemporary...
Intellectuals and Politics (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Robert Brym
March 14, 2011
This essay, first published in 1980, analyses the relationship between intellectuals’ social locations and their political orientations. Dr Brym provides a critical discussion of the various sociological views of intellectuals and specifies some of the social conditions which encourage ...
Science and Golf (Routledge Revivals): Proceedings of the First World Scientific Congress of Golf
1st Edition
Edited
By A. J. Cochran
March 14, 2011
First published in 1990, this reissue contains the papers presented at the First World Scientific Congress of Golf, held at the University of St Andrews. This Congress was the first gathering of its kind, bringing together leading scientists researching into golf, including specialists in&...
Social Evolution and Sociological Categories (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Paul Q. Hirst
March 14, 2011
First published in 1976, this book is concerned with the nature of classification in the social sciences. Its thesis is that classifications are dependent upon and are derived from theoretical explanations. Classification is not a theoretically neutral typification or ordering of social forms. This...
Social Struggles in the Middle Ages (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Max Beer
March 14, 2011
First published in 1924, Max Beer's work comprises the history of social thought from the fourth to the fourteenth century. He considers in detail the heretical social movement and the story is brought up to the period of the peasants' wars and the social struggles in the towns, which ...
The Economics of Non-Wage Labour Costs (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Bob Hart
March 14, 2011
Throughout the OECD, 30% of the average firm’s total labour costs comprises items which are other than direct remuneration. This reissue, first published in 1984, focuses upon these non-wage labour costs, which include; fringe-benefit payments, obligatory social-welfare contributions, holiday ...
Western Sociologists on Indian Society (Routledge Revivals): Marx, Spencer, Weber, Durkheim, Pareto
1st Edition
By G. R. Madan
March 14, 2011
Of the five major sociologists whose views on Indian society are assessed in this work, originally published in 1979, Marx and Weber made a special study of the subject and had something definite to say about the future of Indian society. Herbert Spencer was primarily concerned with the effects of ...
Working Time and Employment (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Bob Hart
March 14, 2011
First published in 1987, this Routledge Revival reissues the first systematic and integrated analysis of working time and employment, reaching to the core elements of a vital area of labour economics. It offers both a comprehensive analysis of the impact of workweek reductions on employment and ...