Routledge Revivals
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Royal Mistresses
1st Edition
By Charles Carlton
March 31, 2025
First published in 1990, Royal Mistresses provides an innovative way of looking at the development of British monarchy, and at the same time investigates the relationship between sex and power. Charles Carlton focuses not so much on the amorous activities of the mistresses of British monarchs as on...
Sex Crime in the News
1st Edition
By Keith Soothill, Sylvia Walby
March 31, 2025
First published in 1991, Sex Crime in the News is a unique examination of the nature of sex crime reporting in the press. Analysing examples from forty years of newspaper coverage, the authors provide a systematic study of this controversial topic. The book reveals the misleading and trivializing ...
Social Work, Ageing and Society
1st Edition
By C Paul Brearley
March 31, 2025
First published in 1975, Social Work, Ageing and Society provides a basic understanding of the needs of older people in society. It deals with the role of the old person in society and attitudes to old age, as well as the physical, emotional and social needs of the ageing individual. It shows that ...
Thackeray: The Novelist
1st Edition
By Geoffrey Tillotson
March 31, 2025
First published in 1954, Thackeray is intended as a reminder that Thackeray is, after all, a great novelist. Professor Tillotson, admiring the novels as great literature, explores their common characteristics and those they share with the rest of Thackeray’s writings – for he sees Thackeray’s work ...
The Crisis of Marxist Ideology in Eastern Europe: The Poverty of Utopia
1st Edition
By Vladimir Tismaneanu
March 31, 2025
First published in 1988, The Crisis of Marxist Ideology in Eastern Europe states that since de-Stalinisation began in Eastern Europe, the ‘dead hand’ of institutional Marxism has been eroded by revisionist Marxism, with the turn to young Marx and the philosophy of human emancipation to undermine ...
The Media and Disasters: Pan Am 103
1st Edition
By Joan Deppa, Maria Russell, Dona Hayes, Elizabeth Lynne Flocke
March 31, 2025
First published in 1993, The Media and Disasters looks behind the key scenes in the drama unfolding in the aftermath of the Pan Am 103 explosion: Lockerbie, visited by an estimated 1000 journalists in the month following the disaster; New York’s Kennedy Airport, where families learned in the ...
Victorian Values: Secularism and the Size of Families
1st Edition
By J A Banks
March 31, 2025
First published in 1981, Victorian Values is an investigation into the social causes behind the decline of the birth rate and the size of families in Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century. The author looks at the interplay of the rising standard of living, the emancipation of women, ...
Working in Residential Homes for Elderly People
1st Edition
By C Paul Brearley
March 31, 2025
First published in 1990, Working in Residential Homes for Elderly People outlines the purposes and objectives of residential homes and what it is like to live and work in them. The author looks at the factors that make for a good quality of life, considering how these can be promoted and how staff ...
Ideology and Shop-Floor Industrial Relations
1st Edition
By P. J. Armstrong, J. F. B. Goodman, J. D. Hyman
March 28, 2025
First Published in 1981, Ideology and Shop-Floor Industrial Relations is based on data obtained in observational research amongst managers, shop stewards and workers, examines the informal processes by which accommodations are or are not, reached by managers and workers. Since the publication of ...
Close to the Earth: Living Social History of the British Isles
1st Edition
By Judith Cook
March 03, 2025
First published in 1984, Close to the Earth is a record of a vanishing age in Britain, of working communities and working individuals who made their living from the land, the rivers and the sea. It is based on conversations and personal memories collected for over twenty years and is illustrated ...
The Knowledge Revolution: An Analysis of the International Brain Market and the Challenge to Europe
1st Edition
By Dimitris N. Chorafas
March 03, 2025
First published in 1968, The Knowledge Revolution has been written to discuss Europe’s economic and cultural future against the whole background of the world market for brains. It examines the role of industry, governments, and universities in meeting the challenge of the 1970s and thereafter. The ...
Resistance Literature
1st Edition
By Barbara Harlow
March 01, 2025
As one of the foundational texts in the field of postcolonial writing, Barbara Harlow’s Resistance Literature introduced new ground in Western literary studies. Originally published in 1987 and now reissued with a new Preface by Mia Carter, this powerfully argued and controversial critique develops...