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471. Engels Revisited (Routledge Revivals)

     Feminist Essays

     Edited by Janet Sayers, Mary Evans, Nanneke Redclift

     Series: Routledge Revivals

     This reissued work, first published in 1987, examines the problematic and divisive attitudes which bourgeois and socialist feminists take to the question of the links between patriarchy and capitalism and the importance of class conflict as a major cause of women's subordination. Engels still...

     Published January 31st 2010 by Routledge
472. Star Chamber Stories (Routledge Revivals)

     By G.R. Elton

     Series: Routledge Revivals

     These stories from the Star Chamber papers, first published in 1958, reveal the real, and sometimes comic, side of the functioning of the Star Chamber - an English court of Law from the Middle Ages, which was set up to ensure the fair enforcement of law against prominent people who were too...

     Published January 31st 2010 by Routledge
473. The Concept of Social Change (Routledge Revivals)

     A Critique of the Functionalist Theory of Social Change

     By Anthony D. Smith

     Series: Routledge Revivals

     Anthony Smith's important work on the concept of social change, first published in 1973, puts forward the paradigm of historical change as an alternative to the functionalist theory of evolutionary change. He shows that, in attempting to provide a theory of social change, functionalism reveals...

     Published January 31st 2010 by Routledge
474. An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Routledge Revivals)

     By A. R. M. Murray

     Series: Routledge Revivals

     First published in 1953, this seminal introduction to political philosophy is intended for both the student of political theory and for the general reader. After an introduction which explains the nature and purpose of philosophy, Dr Murray provides a critical examination of the principle theories...

     Published January 31st 2010 by Routledge
475. Social Development (Routledge Revivals)

     Its Nature and Conditions

     By L. T. Hobhouse

     Series: Routledge Revivals

     Originally published in 1924, Professor Hobhouse's theories and commentaries upon social development are an important milestone in the history of sociological thought. Of particular interest to the modern sociologist is his delineation of the struggle of the human mind towards...

     Published January 31st 2010 by Routledge
476. Politics and Method (Routledge Revivals)

     Contrasting Studies in Industrial Geography

     Edited by Doreen Massey, Richard Meegan

     Series: Routledge Revivals

     This book, first published in 1985, explores the connections in academic research between theoretical positions, political perspectives and policy prescriptions. Five different groups of authors, who have written broadly in the fields of industrial and social geography, discuss this relationship...

     Published January 26th 2010 by Routledge
477. Freedom and Equality (Routledge Revivals)

     The Moral Basis of Democratic Socialism

     By Keith Dixon

     Series: Routledge Revivals

     Unashamedly polemical, this reissue of Freedom & Equality, first published in 1986, presents a strong and persuasively argued case for democratic socialism. In contrast to many recent books justifying conservatism and varieties of Marxism, Keith Dixon defends the two great principles...

     Published January 26th 2010 by Routledge
478. Social Evolution and Sociological Categories (Routledge Revivals)

     By Paul Q. Hirst

     Series: Routledge Revivals

     First published in 1976, this book is concerned with the nature of classification in the social sciences. Its thesis is that classifications are dependent upon and are derived from theoretical explanations. Classification is not a theoretically neutral typification or ordering of social forms. This...

     Published January 26th 2010 by Routledge
479. The Deconstructive Turn (Routledge Revivals)

     Essays in the Rhetoric of Philosophy

     By Christopher Norris

     Series: Routledge Revivals

     What might be the outcome for philosophy if its texts were subjected to the powerful techniques of rhetorical close-reading developed by current deconstructionist literary critics? When first published in 1983, Christopher Norris’ book was the first to explore such questions in the context of...

     Published January 26th 2010 by Routledge
480. Free-Thought in the Social Sciences (Routledge Revivals)

     By J. A. Hobson

     Series: Routledge Revivals

     This Routledge Revival sees the reissue of a seminal work by British economist, sociologist and academic John A. Hobson, elucidating his views on a variety of topics across the social sciences. He makes particular reference to the struggle between the disinterested urge of the social...

     Published January 26th 2010 by Routledge