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 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 G.B. 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 ...
Art, Culture and Enterprise (Routledge Revivals): The Politics of Art and the Cultural Industries
1st Edition
By Justin Lewis
April 07, 2015
First published in 1990, this investigative overview of the politics of arts’ and cultural funding examines the question of public support for the arts. Looking at both popular commercial forms of culture, including radio, pop music and cinema, and the more traditional highbrow arts such as drama ...
Capitalism and Leisure Theory (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Chris Rojek
April 07, 2015
First published in 1985, this title explores theories of leisure in a capitalist society. Basing his argument on a refutation of the conventional association of leisure with freedom and free time, Chris Rojek examines the four main structural characteristics of modern leisure practice: ...
Co-Operative Industry (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Ernest Aves
April 07, 2015
Ernest Aves (1857-1917) was an influential social analyst and civil servant. This title, first published in 1907, during Aves’ work for the Board of Trade, investigates the different forms of industrial co-operation within Britain; the fundamental principle of this is stated as "equitable ...
Dictionary of Jargon (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Jonathon Green
April 07, 2015
First published in 1987, the Dictionary of Jargon expands on its predecessor Newspeak (Routledge Revivals, 2014) as an authoritative reference guide to specialist occupational slang, or jargon. Containing around 21, 000 entries, the dictionary encompasses a truly eclectic range of fields and ...