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?
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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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Towards Socialism or Capitalsim? (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Leon Trotsky
December 16, 2013
First Published in 1926, Towards Socialism or Capitalism? considers how the socialised economy of Soviet Russia, isolated in a capitalist world after Lenin’s death, faced acute dangers. Trotsky and the Left Opposition alone fought the Stalinist degeneration of the state and party apparatus which ...
Where is Britain Going? (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Leon Trotsky
December 16, 2013
First Published in 1926, Where is Britain Going? focuses on the historical factors and circumstances which were to define Britain’s development in the midst of social unrest at that time. The book considers the future of Britain in an age when the working classes were being driven into ...
Early Economic Thought in Spain, 1177-1740 (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Norman D. Cook
December 10, 2013
The growth of serious interest during the last fifty years in the scholastic contribution to the development of economic thought has been very marked, and no-where more so than in the history of economic thought in Spain. First published in 1978, this book begins in the Middle Ages and traces the ...
Gold (Routledge Revivals): A World Survey
1st Edition
By Rae Weston
December 10, 2013
First published in 1983, this book provides a comprehensive view of gold and gold trading in its many facets, and identifies those sources of information that are important for an understanding of the world’s gold markets. The author looks first at gold’s changing role since 1960; in particular, ...
Idealism (Routledge Revivals): A Critical Survey
1st Edition
By Alfred Ewing
November 15, 2013
First published in 1934, this book evaluates the characteristic doctrines of the idealism which dominated philosophy during the last century. It seeks to combine realism, as to epistemology and physical objects, with a greater appreciation of views which emphasize the unity and rationality of the ...
Kant's Treatment of Causality (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Alfred Ewing
November 15, 2013
First published in 1924, this book examines one of the main philosophical debates of the period. Focusing on Kant’s proof of causality, A.C. Ewing promotes its validity not only for the physical but also for the "psychological" sphere. The subject is of importance, for the problem of causality for ...
Second Thoughts in Moral Philosophy (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Alfred Ewing
November 15, 2013
First published in 1959, this volume follows on from Dr. A. C. Ewing’s earlier work, The Definition of Good. The book does not apologize or undermine Ewing’s previous publication but after further consideration on the topic, it explores the issues that were arguably overlooked in the original book....
The Definition of Good (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Alfred Ewing
November 15, 2013
First published in Great Britain in 1948, this book examines the definition of goodness as being distinct from the question of What things are good? Although less immediately and obviously practical, Dr. Ewing argues that the former question is more fundamental since it raises the issue of whether ...
The Fundamental Questions of Philosophy (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Alfred Ewing
November 15, 2013
First Published in 1951, this outline work on the theory of knowledge and metaphysics in intended both for university students who have recently started on the subject and for any who, without having the advantage of studying it at University, wish by private reading to acquire a general idea ...
The Morality of Punishment (Routledge Revivals): With Some Suggestions for a General Theory of Ethics
1st Edition
By Alfred Ewing
November 15, 2013
First published in 1929, this book explores the crucial, ethical question of the objects and the justification of punishment. Dr. A. C. Ewing considers both the retributive theory and the deterrent theory on the subject whilst remaining commendably unprejudiced. The book examines the views which ...
The Defences of the Weak (Routledge Revivals): A Sociological Study of a Norwegian Correctional Institution
1st Edition
By Thomas Mathiesen
October 11, 2013
This is a sociological study of a Norwegian penal institution. The author spent two years in the institution, observing and interviewing inmates and staff, the target being to learn the extent to which American prisons fit with prison life in a different culture. He gives a fascinating answer to ...
A Perspective of Wages and Prices (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Henry Phelps Brown, Sheila V. Hopkins
September 25, 2013
First published in book form in 1981, this collection of essays originally written between 1955 and 1966 contains ground-breaking research and analysis on the study of wages and prices across seven centuries, with particular reference to builder’s wage rates and the price of a bundle of the ...