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.
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Encyclopedia of Cosmology (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
Edited
By Norriss S. Hetherington
October 30, 2015
The Encyclopedia of Cosmology, first published in 1993, recounts the history, philosophical assumptions, methodological ambiguities, and human struggles that have influenced the various responses to the basic questions of cosmology through the ages, as well as referencing important scientific ...
Augustus to Nero (Routledge Revivals): A Sourcebook on Roman History, 31 BC-AD 68
1st Edition
By David Braund
October 13, 2015
The years from the battle of Actium to the death of Nero stand at the very heart of Roman history. Yet the sources of this key period, particularly the inscriptions, papyri and coins, are not readily accessible. Crucial new discoveries remain buried in learned periodicals, and now that the study of...
Business Policies in the Making (Routledge Revivals): Three Steel Companies Compared
1st Edition
By Jonathan Boswell
October 13, 2015
First published in 1983, this study investigates and compares three leading firms in the British iron and steel industry between 1914 and 1939, analysing their strategies, boardroom politics, and their responses to the problems posed by the Great War and by the vicissitudes of the 1920s and ‘30s. ...
Eros and Psyche (Routledge Revivals): The Representation of Personality in Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot
1st Edition
By Karen Chase
October 13, 2015
How does Victorian fiction represent personality? How does it express emotion and how does it imagine the mind? These questions stand at the centre of Eros and Psyche, first published in 1984. In examining how three authors – Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens and George Eliot – depict the mind and ...
Hidden Designs (Routledge Revivals): The Critical Profession and Renaissance Literature
1st Edition
By Jonathan Crewe
October 13, 2015
This 1986 study offers a challenging contribution to the on-going critical debate surrounding the English literary Renaissance. Although informed by the ‘new historicism’ and post-structuralism, Hidden Designs makes a plea for criticism to be practiced in its own name rather than in the name of ...
Law, Force and Diplomacy at Sea (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Ken Booth
October 13, 2015
Law, Force and Diplomacy at Sea, first published in 1985, is one of the few comprehensive treatments on the subject from a strategic perspective. It offers a detailed strategic analysis of the background and outcome of the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea, and its naval implications. The ...
Modern Religious Cults and Movements (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Gaius Glenn Atkins
October 13, 2015
First published in 1923, this title explores the schools of religious thought and practice that sprung up towards the end of the nineteenth century and at the start of the twentieth: sects, mystics and spiritualists, theological sciences and scientific theologies, personal philosophies, and a huge ...
Navies and Foreign Policy (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Ken Booth
October 13, 2015
First published in 1977, this study offers a comprehensive, systematic and integrated survey of the important relationship between navies and the making and execution of foreign policy. Ken Booth explains the functions navies can perform in both war and peace, the influence they have on particular ...
Our Knowledge of the Growth of Knowledge: Popper or Wittgenstein?
1st Edition
By Peter Munz
October 13, 2015
Peter Munz, a former student of both Popper and Wittgenstein, begins his comparison of the two great twentieth-century philosophers, by explaining that since the demise of positivism there have emerged, broadly speaking, two philosophical options: Wittgenstein, with the absolute relativism of his ...
Personal Enmity in Roman Politics (Routledge Revivals): 218-43 BC
1st Edition
By David Epstein
October 13, 2015
The Roman Republic was governed by a small group of men who agreed far more than they disagreed on the fundamental questions facing the state. The details of their public behaviour can thus only be understood in relation to the idiosyncrasies deeply embedded in Roman political culture, one of the ...
Point of View (Routledge Revivals): A Linguistic Analysis of Literary Style
1st Edition
By Susan L. Ehrlich
October 13, 2015
The purpose of Point of View, first published in 1990, is twofold: from the perspective of linguistics, to analyse the discourse structure of texts; from the perspective of literary studies, to explain certain non-linguistic aspects of the texts in terms of linguistic form. This study therefore ...
Selected Genetic Papers of J.B.S. Haldane (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
Edited
By Krishna R. Dronamraju
October 13, 2015
First published in 1990, this is a compilation of several important papers that have contributed to the foundation of population genetics, evolutionary biology and human genetics. The collection includes Haldane’s first paper in genetics, which was published in 1915, reporting the first case ...