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.
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 Robert Hall Diaries 1954-1961 (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
Edited
By Alec Cairncross
May 01, 2015
Lord Roberthall was economic adviser to a succession of Labour and Conservative governments from 1947 to 1961. During that time, he served under eight Chancellors and exercised more influence on economic policy than perhaps any other official. Fortunately – though it was contrary to Civil Service ...
The Sacred Identity of Ephesos (Routledge Revivals): Foundation Myths of a Roman City
1st Edition
By Guy Maclean Rogers
May 01, 2015
The Sacred Identity of Ephesos offers a full-length interpretation of one of the largest known bequests in the Classical world, made to the city of Ephesos in AD 104 by a wealthy Roman equestrian, and challenges some of the basic assumptions made about the significance of the Greek cultural ...
The Scourge of Europe (Routledge Revivals): The Public Debt Described, Explained, and Historically Depicted
1st Edition
By L. V. Birck
May 01, 2015
Written during the early 1920s, at a time when Europe was still recovering from the catastrophe of the First World War, L.V. Birck’s The Scourge of Europe examines the economic issues surrounding the existence of public debt, its history, and possible approaches to problems associated with public ...
The Second International (Routledge Revivals): 1889-1914
1st Edition
By James Joll
May 01, 2015
First published in 1955 to wide acclaim, James Joll’s introduction to the history and development of International Socialism before the First World War is of crucial importance for understanding the development of Left-wing movements in the 20th century: the difficulties posed by prominent ...
The Victorian Poet (Routledge Revivals): Poetics and Persona
1st Edition
Edited
By Joseph Bristow
May 01, 2015
The practice of poetry in the Victorian period was characterised by an extreme diversity of styles, preoccupations and subject-matter. This anthology attempts to draw out some of the main focuses of interest in the Victorian poet. No Victorian poet produced an overall theory of poetry, yet all ...
What is the Kingdom of Heaven? (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By A. Clutton-Brock
May 01, 2015
Written as the First World War was finally drawing to a close, A. Clutton-Brock’s reflections on the Kingdom of Heaven examine this challenging theological concept in light of the great religious, political and moral uncertainties thrown up by the conflict. In particular, Clutton-Brock contends ...
The Onset of World War (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Manus I. Midlarsky
April 11, 2015
First published in 1988, this historical and quantitative analysis of war defines systemic world wars as conflicts of wide scope and intensity, which leave profound historical legacies in their wake. Manus Midlarsky examines various possible explanations for the onset of such past wars as the ...
Thinking about Nature (Routledge Revivals): An Investigation of Nature, Value and Ecology
1st Edition
By Andrew Brennan
April 11, 2015
Ecology – unlike astronomy, physics, or chemistry – is a science with an associated political and ethical movement: the Green Movement. As a result, the ecological position is often accompanied by appeals to holism, and by a mystical quasi-religious conception of the ecosystem. In this title, first...
Marx's 'Capital' (Routledge Revivals): Philosophy and Political Economy
1st Edition
By Geoffrey Pilling
April 09, 2015
Marx’s Capital has of course been widely read; this revival of a systematic study by Geoffrey Pilling, originally published in 1980, argues powerfully that, in order to understand Capital fully, it is necessary to have read and understood Hegel’s Logic. This argument leads to a detailed examination...
A History of the Greek and Roman World (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By George Grundy
April 07, 2015
A History of the Greek and Roman World, first published in 1926, presents the story of Graeco-Roman antiquity from its earliest recorded origins to the height of the Roman imperium. It aims to bring into prominence the internal dynamism - political, cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic – which ...
Age of Fear (Routledge Revivals): Power Versus Principle in the War on Terror
1st Edition
By Amitav Acharya
April 07, 2015
First published in 2004 in the immediate wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, this is an accessible commentary intended to provoke thought and debate on the topic of terrorism. In a collection of challenging essays, questions consider the causes of terrorism and why post-modern terrorism is ...
An Inquiry into Physiocracy (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Max Beer
April 07, 2015
The common understanding of physiocracy – the school of eighteenth-century political economy associated with thinkers such as Boisguillebert and Quesnay – is often confined to the view that it considered agriculture the only source of wealth, and manufacture, trade and export as unproductive. The ...