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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An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By A. R. M. Murray
January 18, 2011
First published in 1953, this seminal introduction to political philosophy is intended for both the student of political theory and for the general reader. After an introduction which explains the nature and purpose of philosophy, Dr Murray provides a critical examination of the principle theories ...
Capital and Power (Routledge Revivals): Political Economy and Social Transformation
1st Edition
By John Girling
January 18, 2011
First published in 1987, this book comprises a critical evaluation of Marxist, Gramscian and pluralist theories of social development; the application of these theories, chiefly to Third World countries: hence consideration of the problems of ‘specificity’, general theory and social change. This is...
Christian Democracy in France (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By R. E. M. Irving
January 18, 2011
Christian Democracy, which may briefly be defined as organised political action by Catholic democrats, has been a major political force in Western Europe since the Second World War, not least in France. The aim of this book, first published in 1973, is to trace the Development of Christian ...
Critics of Society (Routledge Revivals): Radical Thoughts in North America
1st Edition
By Tom B. Bottomore
January 18, 2011
First published in 1967, this essay in the interpretation of radical social thought deals mainly with the radical theorists rather than the doctrines of social and political movements, but makes an exception in an important discussion of the new radicalism of the 1960s. The author's main concern is...
Free-Thought in the Social Sciences (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By J. A. Hobson
January 18, 2011
This Routledge Revival sees the reissue of a seminal work by British economist, sociologist and academic John A. Hobson, elucidating his views on a variety of topics across the social sciences. He makes particular reference to the struggle between the disinterested urge of the social...
Freedom and Equality (Routledge Revivals): The Moral Basis of Democratic Socialism
1st Edition
By Keith Dixon
January 18, 2011
Unashamedly polemical, this reissue of Freedom & Equality, first published in 1986, presents a strong and persuasively argued case for democratic socialism. In contrast to many recent books justifying conservatism and varieties of Marxism, Keith Dixon defends the two great principles ...
Paths to International Political Economy (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
Edited
By Susan Strange
January 18, 2011
The problems of a troubled world economy and the essentially political issues of how it should be managed make up the stuff of international political economy. The overwhelming importance of these questions has drawn ever increasing numbers of students and teachers in universities, colleges and ...
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (Routledge Revivals): A Biography
1st Edition
By George Woodcock
January 18, 2011
Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) is one of the most important French social theoreticians of the nineteenth century. George Woodcock's book, first published in 1956, was the first full-scale biography of Proudhon in the English language. Proudhon's influence on the French Socialist ...
Social Development (Routledge Revivals): Its Nature and Conditions
1st Edition
By L. T. Hobhouse
January 18, 2011
Originally published in 1924, Professor Hobhouse's theories and commentaries upon social development are an important milestone in the history of sociological thought. Of particular interest to the modern sociologist is his delineation of the struggle of the human mind towards ...
Socialism the Active Utopia (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Zygmunt Bauman
January 18, 2011
Rather than contributing to the long-standing discussion about the characteristics of the society that socialism proposes to establish, this Routledge Revival, initially published in 1976, aims to explore the impact of the ‘living utopia’ of socialism on the development of modern society. It ...
The Achilles Heel Reader (Routledge Revivals): Men, Sexual Politics and Socialism
1st Edition
Edited
By Victor Seidler
January 18, 2011
First published in 1991, The Achilles Heel Reader brings together key articles from Achilles Heel, the path-breaking and influential magazine of men's sexual politics. It also includes an important introduction by the editor, setting the magazine in its intellectual and historical context. Achilles...
Hope Deferred (Routledge Revivals): Girls' Education in English History
1st Edition
By Josephine Kamm
December 17, 2010
Hope Deferred, initially published in 1965 traces the history of girls’ education from Anglo-Saxon England to modern times, telling the story largely through the leading personalities whose opinions and prejudices shaped this history. It outlines the progress of popular education and the work of ...