Routledge Revivals
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Wicked, Wicked Libels
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Rubinstein
January 19, 2026
‘The law of libel is the instrument of censorship by which dignity—too often pseudo-dignity—is to be upheld.’ That is Michael Rubinstein’s definition in his introduction to this lively and authoritative account Wicked, Wicked Libels (originally published in 1972) of the libel situation in Britain. ...
Without a Word: Teaching Beyond Women's Silence
1st Edition
By Magda Gere Lewis
January 19, 2026
The question of women’s silence within academic settings has received a great deal of attention. And much feminist educational scholarship has devoted itself to creating spaces where women’s stories and experiences can be told. Without a Word (first published in 1993) raises the question of women’s...
Women and Attempted Suicide
1st Edition
By Raymond Jack
January 19, 2026
Attempted suicide began to increase inexorably in western societies following World War II. In Britain, it reached epidemic proportions in 1976 when 120,000 cases were reported. More accurately termed “self-poisoning” as the majority of cases involve deliberate, non-fatal overdosing on pills, this ...
Women on the Rope: The Feminine Share in Mountain Adventure
1st Edition
By Cicely Williams
January 19, 2026
First published in 1973, Women on the Rope provides the first consecutive story of the ‘feminine share in mountain adventure’, a share which has grown from tiny beginnings in 1808 to a level at which women have won their place at Everest expeditions. Cicely Williams provides a book which combines ...
Women who do and women who don't join the women's movement
1st Edition
Edited
By Robyn Rowland
January 19, 2026
First published in 1984, Women who do and women who don’t join the women’s movement asks a variety of women – some of whom chose to align themselves with the women’s movement, others who chose not to – to write about their lives and the reasons for choices they have made. Where do the differences ...
Working for Ford
1st Edition
By Huw Beynon
January 19, 2026
Working for Ford (1984) describes just what it is like to work in a car factory, very often in the words of the workers themselves. It also reveals the process by which large-scale industries seek to overcome industrial conflict and the way in which unions, shop-floor workers and shop stewards ...
World Sea Fisheries
1st Edition
By Robert Morgan
January 19, 2026
First published in 1956, World Sea Fisheries gives a general survey of the sea fisheries of the world. It assesses their relative importance at a time when the growing world population placed an increasing strain on food supplies. It examines the forces which mould the character of sea fisheries in...
World War Debt Settlements
1st Edition
By Harold G. Moulton, Leo Pasvolsky
January 19, 2026
World War I left in its wake an unparalleled amount of international debt. Within a period of 5 years a larger sum of international obligations existed than had been built up by ordinary processes during the whole of the preceding century. These debts were, moreover, inter-governmental in character...
World-Games: The Tradition of Anti-Realist Revolt
1st Edition
By Cristopher Nash
January 19, 2026
Contemporary readers face a literature that seems to ‘speak for’ them, yet they often struggle to say just how or why. Out of the deluge of works from such writers as Barth, Barthelme, Beckett, Borges, Brooke-Rose, Burroughs, Butor, Calvino, Cortázar, Federman, Fuentes, Le Guin, Márquez, McElroy, ...
Worldwide Family History
1st Edition
Edited
By Noel Currer-Briggs
January 19, 2026
First published in 1982, Worldwide Family History is an essential reference and guide for the professional genealogist and the interested amateur alike. Concentrating on non-British genealogical problems, it sets out as succinctly as possible the way in which people of English speech but of foreign...
Youth in a Changing Society
1st Edition
By Fred Milson
January 19, 2026
First Published in 1972, Youth in a Changing Society examines the ‘youth problem’, dealing with questions of alienation, drugs, juvenile crime, protest, the social cultural position of young people in Britain, and suggests a new way of thinking which should promote greater understanding of the ...
Administrators in Action: British Case Studies (Volume One)
1st Edition
By F. M. G. Willson
January 16, 2026
Originally published in 1961, when many of the existing books on British Government dealt predominantly with its structure and organization. Little light had been shed on the detailed processes of day-to-day administration. This was the first of a series sponsored by the Royal Institute of Public ...