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.
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Women and the Public Sphere: A critque of sociology and politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Janet Siltanen, Michelle Stanworth
February 28, 2025
First published in 1984, Women and the Public Sphere is a collection of essays which challenges the argument that a woman’s sphere is private with relation to politics, and shows it to be profoundly mistaken. The authors demonstrate how all the traditions of political analysis have failed to take ...
Worlds of Sense: Exploring the senses in history and across cultures
1st Edition
By Constance Classen
February 28, 2025
First published in 1993, Worlds of Sense is an exploration of the historical and cultural formation of the senses. As the author demonstrates, different cultures have strikingly different ways of ‘making sense’ of the world. In the modern urban West, we are accustomed to thinking in terms of visual...
Economic Influences on the Development of Accounting in Firms
1st Edition
By George J. Staubus
February 20, 2025
A view of accounting as a practical activity – a service function whose value depends on its adaptation to the environment in which it serves – is a good place to start this book, originally published in 1996. While arts such as music and drama can be said to serve human needs, their development ...
The Quest for a Science of Accounting: An Anthology of the Research of Robert R. Sterling
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas A. Lee, Peter W. Wolnizer
February 20, 2025
Originally published in 1997, the principal object of the editors in compiling this collection of Robert R. Sterling’s work was to make more of his publications accessible in a convenient form to the academic and professional accounting communities, and to current and future generations of ...
Exploration into Child Care
1st Edition
By Peter Boss
February 13, 2025
Originally published in 1971, this title explores childcare in the period between the Children Act of 1948 and the Seebohm Report of 1968. During this time Children’s Departments and social work expanded beyond all expectations. In the developments of these two decades the author studies the ...
Sharing Child Care in Early Parenthood
1st Edition
By Malcolm Hill
February 13, 2025
Originally published in 1987, Malcolm Hill examines the different ways in which parents share responsibility for looking after their pre-school children with other people, whether members of their social networks, formal groups or paid carers. He also looks at the reasons parents give for choosing ...
Social Work in Child Care
1st Edition
By Elisabeth Pugh
February 13, 2025
In the late 1960s the child care service had undergone considerable change, and was to change again after the Seebohm Committee had reported. Yet its central tasks had become clear: preventive work; the reception of children into care, work with them and their parents during the period of care; the...
Midwives and Medical Men: A History of the Struggle for the Control of Childbirth
1st Edition
By Jean Donnison
February 01, 2025
Originally published in 1977 and as a second edition in 1988, this book introduces the reader to the women at the top of the midwifery profession up until the 17th Century who attended the aristocracy and Royalty. The author shows how their successors were gradually driven out of the better paid ...
Midwives in History and Society
1st Edition
By Jean Towler, Joan Bramall
February 01, 2025
Originally published in 1986, this book examines the history of midwifery, concentrating on 19th and 20th Century Britain. It shows how the evolution of the midwife has been influenced by cultural waves which started in the Near East and Egypt in pre-classical times and slowly spread Northwards and...
Refugees in International Politics
1st Edition
By Leon Gordenker
February 01, 2025
Originally published in 1987, Refugees in International Politics explores the nature of forced migration. It sets out systematically the factors that set refugees in motion and explains how and why a flexible network of organizations copes with the inescapable results of their presence. It suggests...
T. H. Marshall's Social Policy: In the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By A. M. Rees
February 01, 2025
Originally published in 1965, Social Policy became a classic text and one of the best-known and most widely-used textbooks in social administration. This Routledge Revival reissues the 5th edition of 1985. T. H. Marshall’s masterly and unrivalled analysis of the development of welfare policies ...
An Introduction to the History of Religion (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By F. B. Jevons
January 30, 2025
First published in 1902, this book investigates the history and development of early religion from an anthropological perspective. Rather than dealing with religions that grew from the teachings of their original founders, such as Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism, Jevons considers those religions ...