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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The Coming of Rome (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By John Wacher
June 10, 2015
The Coming of Rome, first published in 1979, examines some basic features of Roman Britain: the cities, the towns, and the monuments of an urban culture. J.S. Wacher considers the evidence, mainly from inscriptions, of the people who inhabited or visited Britain during approximately the first two ...
The Origins of Civilization in Greek and Roman Thought (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Sue Blundell
June 10, 2015
It has been much disputed to what extent thinkers in Greek and Roman antiquity adhered to ideas of evolution and progress in human affairs. Did they lack any conception of process in time, or did they anticipate Darwinian and Lamarckian hypotheses? The Origins of Civilization in Greek and Roman ...
The Roman Mother (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Suzanne Dixon
June 10, 2015
The Roman Mother, first published in 1988, traces the traditional Roman attitude towards mothers to its republican origins, examining the diverse roles and the relative power and influence associated with motherhood. The importance of the paterfamilias with his wide-ranging legal rights and ...
The Third City (Routledge Revivals): Philosophy at War with Positivism
1st Edition
By Borna Bebek
June 10, 2015
The Third City, first published in 1982, offers an innovative response to the troubled relationship between Western philosophy, as it has been conducted since the Renaissance, and the everyday lives of the communities in which we live. Bebek contends that the model of philosophical reflection is to...
Themes in Geographic Thought (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
Edited
By Milton Harvey, Brian Holly
June 10, 2015
Themes in Geographic Thought, first published in 1981, explores in breadth and depth the interrelationships among the history of Geography, geographic thought, and methodology, specifically focusing on the interactions between geographical research and various contemporary philosophical schools: ...
Two Centuries of Irish History (Routledge Revivals): 1691-1870
1st Edition
Edited
By R. Barry O'Brien
June 10, 2015
This collection of papers, first published in 1888, presents the history of Ireland as it unfolded from the Treaty of Limerick in 1691 until the Land Act of 1870 and the Home Rule Movement. Written at a time of great national interest in the ‘Irish Problem’, Two Centuries of Irish History tells the...
Indian Ocean Research Volumes
1st Edition
By Dennis Rumley, Sanjay Chaturvedi
May 29, 2015
The 2 volumes include ‘Geopolitical Orientations, Regionalism and Security in the Indian Ocean’ and ‘Energy Security and the Indian Ocean Region’. Geopolitical Orientations, Regionalism and Security in the Indian Ocean- First published in 2004, this book is the inaugural volume of the Indian Ocean ...
Shelley (Routledge Revivals): The Man and the Poet
1st Edition
By A. Clutton-Brock
May 18, 2015
First published in 1909, with a second edition in 1923, this concise and easily accessible overview of Shelley’s life and work presents the poet not as popular legend would have it, but in a more objective light. A.Clutton-Brock notes his forthright and imperious attitude to life – a life in which ...
A New Companion to Greek Tragedy (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Andrew Brown
May 01, 2015
That the works of the ancient tragedians still have an immediate and profound appeal surely needs no demonstration, yet the modern reader continually stumbles across concepts which are difficult to interpret or relate to – moral pollution, the authority of oracles, classical ideas of geography – as...
Alternative Economic Indicators (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Victor Anderson
May 01, 2015
The main objective of politicians is to maximise economic growth, which heavily drives political policy and decision-making. Critics of the maximisation of growth as the central aim of economic policy have argued that growth in itself is not necessarily a good thing, particularly for the ...
Arden (Routledge Revivals): A Study of His Plays
1st Edition
By Albert Hunt
May 01, 2015
John Arden was one of the major playwrights to have emerged during the 1950s, yet his work has arguably been misunderstood. In this book, first published in 1974, Albert Hunt’s primary concern is to relate the plays written by John Arden alone, as well as those written in collaboration with ...
Bolshevism at a Deadlock (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Karl Kautsky
May 01, 2015
Bolshevism at a Deadlock was written Karl Kautsky, one of the leading Marxist intellectuals of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, in response to the catastrophic failures of Stalin’s first Five Year Plan, which was intended to raise Russian industry and productivity to equal that of...