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?
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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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Mirrors of Mortality (Routledge Revivals): Social Studies in the History of Death
1st Edition
Edited
By Joachim Whaley
March 02, 2012
First published in 1981, this reissue examines mankind’s preoccupation with death and mortality by isolating various societies in different periods of time. The authors examine not only the formal rituals associated with the last rite of passage, but also the social attitudes to death and dying ...
The Development of the Economies of Continental Europe 1850-1914
1st Edition
By Alan Milward, S Saul
March 02, 2012
This work, first published in 1977, is a reissue of a trailblazing work; the first textbook of economic history to deal comprehensively with the economic development of the whole continent in this period and to do so from a continental rather than a British perspective. But it is more than ...
The Fall and Rise of the Asiatic Mode of Production (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Stephen Dunn
March 02, 2012
This reissue was first published in 1982. It deals specifically with the ‘Asiatic mode of production’ described by Karl Marx in his basic evolutionary model for human society. The term defines a special form of society marked by state ownership of the means of production and extensive ...
The Making of Neoclassical Economics (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By John F. Henry
March 02, 2012
First published in 1990, this unique explanation of the rise of neoclassical economics views social change as an engine promoting change in theory. It attempts to develop a theory of the origins, consolidation and rise to dominance of the neoclassical school of thought. In so doing, it addresses ...
Inheritance and Wealth Inequality in Britain (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Colin Harbury, David Hitchins
January 14, 2012
Modern Britain is characterised by marked inequalities in the distribution of wealth, which continue to fuel controversy and arouse strong, if adverse, feelings. Originally published in 1979, Inheritance and Wealth Inequality in Britain provides detailed evidence on the relative importance of ...
Ethics, Emotion and the Unity of the Self (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Oliver Letwin
December 06, 2011
This Routledge Revival reissues Oliver Letwin’s philosophical treatise: Ethics, Emotion and the Unity of the Self, first published in 1987, which concerns the applicability of the artistic classifications of romanticism and classicism to philosophical doctrine. Dr Letwin examines three particular ...
From Keynesianism to Monetarism (Routledge Revivals): The evolution of UK macroeconometric models
1st Edition
By Peter Kenway
December 06, 2011
Originally published in 1994, this book, divided into three parts, examines macroeconomic models in a non-technical way. Part I discusses the importance of macroeconomic modelling; Part II examines the rise and fall of Keynesian income-expenditure models; and part III evaluates the evidence and ...
Okubo Diary (Routledge Revivals): Portrait of a Japanese Valley
1st Edition
By Brian Moeran
November 29, 2011
First published in 1985, this Routledge Revival is a lively and colourful account of life in the Japanese countryside, as seen through the eyes of an anthropologist who did fieldwork there for four years. Part journal, part ethnographic observation, part social and moral commentary, this very ...
Selling the Welfare State (Routledge Revivals): The Privatisation of Public Housing
1st Edition
By Ray Forrest, Alan Murie
November 29, 2011
Originally published in 1988, this book offers the first comprehensive and critical analysis of the privatisation of public housing in Britain. It outlines the historical background to the growth of public housing and the developing political debatea surrounding its disposal. The main emphasis...
Alec Nove on the Soviet Economy (Routledge Revivals): Collected Works
1st Edition
By Alec Nove
November 17, 2011
From the early 1960s until his death in 1994, Alec Nove was one of the world's leading authorities on Russian and Soviet economic history. This Routledge Revivals collection brings together six of his most essential books on the Soviet Economy, taken from across ...
Defining Physical Education (Routledge Revivals): The Social Construction of a School Subject in Postwar Britain
1st Edition
By David Kirk
October 28, 2011
First published in 1992, David Kirk’s book analyses the public debate leading up to the 1987 General Election over the place and purpose of physical education in British schools. By locating this debate in a historical context, specifically in the period following the end of the Second World War, ...
Political Argument (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Brian Barry
October 13, 2011
Since its publication in 1965, Brian Barry's seminal work has occupied an important role in the revival of Anglo-American political philosophy. A number of ideas and terms in it have become part of the standard vocabulary, such as the distinction between "ideal-regarding" and "want-regarding" ...