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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Primitive Economics of the New Zealand Maori (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Raymond Firth
November 19, 2012
First published in 1929, Raymond Firth’s original and insightful study offers an incredibly detailed account of the social and economic organisation of the Maori people before their contact with Western civilisation. Bridging the gap between anthropology and economics, the work covers the class ...
Studies in Ancient Society (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By M.I. Finley
November 19, 2012
Originally published in 1978, this volume comprises articles previously published in the historical journal, Past and Present, ranging over nearly a thousand years of Graeco-Roman history. The essays focus primarily on the Roman Empire, reflecting the increase, in British scholarship of the ...
The Economics of Unemployment (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By J. A. Hobson
November 19, 2012
First published in 1922, Hobson’s study of the depression and resulting unemployment in the aftermath of the First World War is a far-sighted analysis which looks beyond the consequences of the war itself, at the root economic causes of the crisis. Dealing with issues such as the failure of ...
The Harvest of Tragedy (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Thomas Rice Henn
November 19, 2012
Upon initial publication in 1956, this book was an attempt to re-state certain problems concerning the aesthetics and ethics of the tragic form; to examine these in relation to contemporary work in psychology and anthropology; to enquire into the significance of ‘the fact or experience called ...
The Lonely Tower (Routledge Revivals): Studies in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats
1st Edition
By Thomas Rice Henn
November 19, 2012
First published in 1965, this reissue of the second edition of T. R. Henn’s seminal study offers an impressive breadth and depth of meditations on the poetry of W. B. Yeats. His life and influences are discussed at length, from the impact of the Irish Rebellion upon his youth, to his training as a ...
The Meaning of the Concept of Probability in Application to Finite Sequences (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Hilary Putnam
November 19, 2012
First published in 1990, this is a reissue of Professor Hilary Putnam’s dissertation thesis, written in 1951, which concerns itself with The Meaning of the Concept of Probability in Application to Finite Sequences and the problems of the deductive justification for induction. Written under the ...
The Nation's Cause (Routledge Revivals): French. English and German Poetry of the First World War
1st Edition
By Elizabeth A. Marsland
November 19, 2012
As we approach the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, this timely reissue, first published in 1991, evaluates the function of poetry in wartime Europe, arguing that war poetry must be understood as a social as well as a literary phenomenon. As well as locating the work of well-known...
The Personnel Managers (Routledge Revivals): A Study in the Sociology of Work and Employment
1st Edition
By Tony Watson
November 19, 2012
First published in 1977, this Routledge Revival is a reissue of the first comprehensive sociological study of the role of the personnel manager, which considers both the individual experience of the person working in this field and the role the occupation plays in the management of employing ...
The Political Economy of Reform and Change (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Jan Winiecki
November 19, 2012
First published in 1997, this collection of articles and essays analyses the political economy of reform and change in Eastern Europe during the years of Gorbachev’s perestroika and the years immediately following the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Written by Polish ...
The Silence of Constitutions (Routledge Revivals): Gaps, 'abeyances' and political temperament in the maintenance of government
1st Edition
By Michael Foley
November 19, 2012
First published in 1989, Michael’s Foley’s book deals with the ‘abeyances’ present in both written and unwritten constitutions, arguing that these gaps in the explicitness of a constitution, and the various ways they are preserved, provide the means by which constitutional conflict is continually ...
The Sociology of Art (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Arnold Hauser
November 19, 2012
First published in 1982, The Sociology of Art considers all forms of the arts, whether visual arts, literature, film, theatre or music from Bach to the Beatles. The last book to be completed by Arnold Hauser before his death in 1978, it is a total analysis of the spiritual forces of social ...
Toynbee Hall (Routledge Revivals): The First Hundred Years
1st Edition
By Asa Briggs, Anne Macartney
November 19, 2012
First published in 1984, Toynbee Hall, The First Hundred Years is not just a centenary study, but a personal contribution to the continuing history of Toynbee Hall, which is the Universities’ settlement in East London, and an institution that has inspired respect and affection. Its pioneering role ...