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 Violence of Representation (Routledge Revivals): Literature and the History of Violence
1st Edition
Edited
By Nancy Armstrong, Leonard Tennenhouse
July 14, 2015
First published in 1989, this collection of essays brings into focus the history of a specific form of violence – that of representation. The contributors identify representations of self and other that empower a particular class, gender, nation, or race, constructing a history of the west as the ...
Thebes in the Fifth Century (Routledge Revivals): Heracles Resurgent
1st Edition
By Nancy Demand
July 14, 2015
In the fifth century BC Thebes, faced with the challenges presented by defeat and disgrace in the Persian Wars – it had sided with the invaders – succeeded not only in regaining its former prominence, but also in laying the groundwork for its hegemony of Greece in the early part of the fourth ...
Violence, Civil Strife and Revolution in the Classical City (Routledge Revivals): 750-330 BC
1st Edition
By Andrew Lintott
July 14, 2015
Violent conflict between individuals and groups was as common in the ancient world as it has been in more recent history. Detested in theory, it nevertheless became as frequent as war between sovereign states. The importance of such ‘stasis’ was recognised by political thinkers of the time, ...
Social Work, the Media and Public Relations (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
Edited
By Bob Franklin, Nigel Parton
July 06, 2015
Over the past few decades, relationships between social workers and the media have become increasingly challenging. Social workers feel aggrieved by media reporting of their profession and believe that journalists lack sufficient knowledge and experience of the social services to report matters ...
A History of Astronomy (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Walter Bryant
June 10, 2015
A History of Astronomy, first published in 1907, offers a comprehensive introduction to the steady development of the science since its inception in the ancient world up to the momentous progress of the nineteenth century. It includes biographical material relating to the most famous names in the ...
A History of Earliest Italy (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Missimo Pallottino
June 10, 2015
In A History of Earliest Italy, first published in 1984, Professor Pallottino illumines the wide variety of peoples, languages, and traditions of culture and trade that constituted the pre-Roman Italic world. Since the written sources are fragmentary, archaeology provides the central reservoir for...
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Henry A. Beers
June 10, 2015
This book presents the great artistic and literary innovations of the Romantic movement in the nineteenth century according to an often overlooked and unacknowledged definition of 'Romanticism', which is of particular relevance in the consideration of the English Romantic spirit....
A History of Seafaring in the Classical World (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Fik Meijer
June 10, 2015
A History of Seafaring in the Classical World, first published in 1986, presents a complete treatment of all aspects of the maritime history of the Classical world, designed for the use of students as well as scholars. Beginning with Crete and Mycenae in the third millennium BC, the author expounds...
Adults and Children in the Roman Empire (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Thomas Wiedemann
June 10, 2015
There is little evidence to enable us to reconstruct what it felt like to be a child in the Roman world. We do, however, have ample evidence about the feelings and expectations that adults had for children over the centuries between the end of the Roman republic and late antiquity. Thomas Wiedemann...
Aemilius Paullus (Routledge Revivals): Conqueror of Greece
1st Edition
By William Reiter
June 10, 2015
Lucius Aemilius Paullus was largely responsible for the inclusion of Greece in the growing empire of the Republic. He is most often presented as a man of pristine virtue and philhellenic persuasion, but this image has clouded his personality as well as the events in which he was involved. Aemilius...
Alcibiades (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Walter Ellis
June 10, 2015
In Alcibiades, first published in 1989, one of the most colourful and controversial figures of fifth-century Athens is presented in a sympathetic light. The author sets out to demonstrate how, in his manipulation of the Spartan representatives in 420 BC, in his successful formation of an ...
An Introduction to the History of Educational Theories (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Oscar Browning
June 10, 2015
An Introduction to the History of Educational Theories, first published in 1881, offers a comprehensive overview of the most notable approaches to education throughout Western history, from Athens and Rome to the Victorian public school. Exploring not only the still famous theories of Plato and ...