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?
Well this may be the end of your quest – here is a fantastic opportunity for you to discover past brilliance and purchase previously out of print and unavailable titles by some of the world’s most eminent academic scholars.
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.
If you are interested in Revivals in the Behavioral Sciences, please visit
routledge.com/Psychology-Revivals/book-series/PSYREVIVALS
Golf in Britain: A social history from the beginnings to the present day
1st Edition
By Geoffrey Cousins
October 01, 2025
First published in 1975 Golf in Britain traces the growth of the game from its small beginnings in fifteenth century Scotland to 1970s when it emerged as a widely enjoyed and massively financed sport. Golf has been peculiarly a subject related to economic and social change in society. Initially a ...
Ideologies of Welfare: From Dreams to Disillusion
1st Edition
By John Clarke, Allan Cochrane, Carol Smart
October 01, 2025
The British welfare state has been a political and ideological battleground since its inception, yet many of the voices in the crucial debates have been lost in orthodox histories. First published in 1987, Ideologies of Welfare (now with a new preface by the authors) explores the development of the...
International Labour and the Third World: The Making of a New Working Class
1st Edition
Edited
By Rosalind E. Boyd, Robin Cohen, Peter C. W. Gutkind
October 01, 2025
Originally published in 1987, this book focusses on the debate around the international role of the working class and other dominated classes such as the rural and urban poor. The contributions discuss whether Marx’s original version of the revolutionary role of workers can still be sustained. They...
Law and Society
1st Edition
By Adam Podgórecki
October 01, 2025
Originally published in 1974, this book looks at the general problems regarding the sociology of law. It describes the various methods of sociological research which may be applied in the field of sociology of law and shows their advantages and empirical limitations. It discusses the number and ...
Nemesis at Potsdam: The Anglo-Americans and the Expulsion of the Germans
1st Edition
By Alfred M. de Zayas
October 01, 2025
First published in 1979, Nemesis at Potsdam discusses the expulsion and spoliation of the Germans from most of central and easter Europe during the Second World War, a process which over two million did not survive. How did this extraordinary event come about? Was it necessary for the peace of ...
Oliver Goldsmith: His Life and Works
1st Edition
By A. Lytton Sells
October 01, 2025
In view of the author of Oliver Goldsmith (originally published in 1974), the many biographies which have appeared seem defective in several respects. They either omit information which is readily available, or ignore essential features of Goldsmith’s life and character, or fail to see the real ...
People on the Move: Studies on Internal Migration
1st Edition
Edited
By Leszek Kosiński, R Mansell Prothero
October 01, 2025
Originally published in 1975, this volume examines conceptual and theoretical aspects of the study of internal migration, both in chapters dealing specifically with theory and data and in case studies. The book discusses the question of who migrates, and why and what are the patterns of flow and ...
Playing and Exploring: Education Through the Discovery of Order
1st Edition
By R.A. Hodgkin
October 01, 2025
First published in 1985, Playing and Exploring draws on many disciplines in order to formulate a new way of thinking about the nature and power of education. As so often with creative thinkers, Robin Hodgkin’s work is at once subversive and conservative. He is radical in insisting on the overriding...
Poetry and Song in Late Eighteenth Century Germany: A Study in the Musical Sturm Und Drang
1st Edition
By Margaret Mahony Stoljar
October 01, 2025
The German Lied in the period preceding Mozart is less well-known than that of the florescence under Schubert, Schumann and Wolf. But in Poetry and Song in Late Eighteenth Century Germany (originally published in 1985) Margaret Stoljar shows that the songs composed by C.P.E. Bach and his ...
Political Institutions of West Africa
1st Edition
By J. H. Price
October 01, 2025
This book, originally published in 1967 looks at political institutions in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Gambia a the time of the establishment of alien rule and goes on to discuss in detail constitutional developments from 1919 to the late 20th Century, paying particular attention to ...
Principles of Language and Mind
1st Edition
By T.P. Waldron
October 01, 2025
First published in 1985, Principles of Language and Mind presents a systematic and original account of the principles which enable us to understand the origin, primary functions, and later development of human language. It also clarifies the way in which this development underpins another: that of ...
Reinterpretations: Essays on Poems by Milton, Pope and Johnson
1st Edition
By J.P. Hardy
October 01, 2025
First published in 1971, Reinterpretations focusses upon a group of closely related major poems—L’Allegro and Il Penseroso, Milton’s companion pieces, and Lycidas, Pope’s Rape of the Lock and Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, and Johnson’s London. The critical and interpretive light which Professor Hardy ...