Routledge Revivals
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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.
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The Politics of Financial Control: The Role of the House of Commons
1st Edition
By Gordon Reid
January 30, 2025
Originally published in 1966, this book takes a look at the ancient and traditional, as well as more recent procedures in parliament for controlling finance. It questions outdated procedures and also examines the tendency of the party leaders to restrict control and even debate of financial matters...
The Primary Sector in Economic Development (Routledge Revivals): Proceedings of the Seventh Arne Ryde Symposium, Frostavallen, August 29-30 1983
1st Edition
Edited
By Mats Lundahl
January 30, 2025
A major problem for less developed countries is to make their primary sectors sufficiently profitable in order to be able to build up manufacturing and service sectors. This edited collection, first published in 1985, examines the nature of the primary sector and its role in economic development. ...
The Regal Phantasm (Routledge Revivals): Shakespeare and the Politics of Spectacle
1st Edition
By Christopher Pye
January 30, 2025
First published in 1989, this title explores the relationship theater and power in the English Renaissance. Shakespeare’s Henry V, Richard II, and Macbeth are examined alongside a range of cultural materials, including philosophical and historical accounts of sovereignty, royal portraiture and ...
The Role of Technology in Distance Education (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Tony Bates
January 30, 2025
This book, first published in 1984, provides a comprehensive review of the range of technology that was being used in distance education. Technological developments in word processing, video-disc and viewdata as well as computer-based learning had revolutionised the potential for distance education...
The Vital Science (Routledge Revivals): Biology and the Literary Imagination,1860-1900
1st Edition
By Peter Morton
January 30, 2025
In this title, first published in 1984, Peter Morton argues that in late Victorian Britain a group of novelists and essayists quite consciously sought and found ideas in post-Darwinian biology that were susceptible to imaginative transformation. The period between 1860 and 1900 was a time of great ...
The Women of Cairo: Volume II (Routledge Revivals): Scenes of Life in the Orient
1st Edition
By Gerard De Nerval
January 30, 2025
The Women of Cairo: Scenes of Life in the Orient, first published in 1929, describes the trip to Egypt and other locations in the Ottoman Empire taken by French Romanticist Gerard de Nerval. The book focuses on both reinforcing and dispelling the old ways in which people saw the Orient, as well as ...
Tristram Shandy (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Max Byrd
January 30, 2025
Max Byrd’s lucidly written and compelling volume aims to provide a scholarly introduction to one of the most puzzling pieces of eighteenth-century literature, and a stimulus to critical thought and discussion. Laurence Sterne – an eccentric and largely unsuccessful clergyman - was forty-six when he...
Voice Terminal Echo (Routledge Revivals): Postmodernism and English Renaissance Texts
1st Edition
By Jonathan Goldberg
January 30, 2025
First published in 1986, this title examines a set of English Renaissance texts by Shakespeare, Spenser, Herbert, Marvell and Milton, within the theoretic framework of postmodern thought. Following an opening chapter that argues for the value of this conjunction as a way of understanding literary ...
When Honour's at the Stake (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Norman Council
January 30, 2025
Renaissance ideas of honour had a profound influence on the English people who formed Shakespeare’s audiences. In When Honour’s at the Stake, first published in 1973, Norman Council describes the increasing importance of these ideas to the themes and structure of a number of Shakespeare’s major ...
Policing 'Domestic' Violence: Women, the Law and the State
1st Edition
By Susan S. M. Edwards
January 06, 2025
Violence in the home, particularly assault by a man on his wife or girlfriend, is an everyday phenomenon. What should the police and law courts do about it? In Policing ‘Domestic’ Violence, first published in 1989, reissued here with a new preface, Susan Edwards draws upon her extensive research ...
The Moving Image: Science and Religion. Time and Eternity
1st Edition
By G. D. Yarnold
January 06, 2025
Research scientist and university teacher, Anglican clergyman and warden of a great theological library, the author had previously lectured and written extensively on religious and scientific questions. In The Moving Image, originally published in 1966, he deals with a number of related problems, ...
The Rhythms of Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Young, Tom Schuller
January 06, 2025
Originally published in 1988, The Rhythms of Society reflects the time-obsessed age we lived in when it was written. The contributors, drawn from a range of disciplines, develop a common sociological approach to examine time in a range of cultures, sub-cultures and historical periods. With time ...