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51. Modern Honor

    A Philosophical Defense

    By Anthony Cunningham

    Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

    This book examines the notion of honor with an eye to dissecting its intellectual demise and with the aim of making a case for honor’s rehabilitation. Western intellectuals acknowledge honor’s influence, but they lament its authority. For Western democratic societies to embrace honor, it must be...

    Published April 18th 2013 by Routledge
52. Social Mobilization in the Arab/Israeli War of 1948

    On the Israeli Home Front

    By Moshe Naor

    Series: Israeli History, Politics and Society

    In many ways, the Arab-Israeli war of 1948 is typical of the total military conflicts that characterized the first half of the twentieth century. However, in addition to the military course of the war, and its formative and revolutionary ramifications, this war was also notable for the social...

    Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge
53. Spirals of Contention

    Why India was Partitioned in 1947

    By Satish Saberwal

    This study examines the social and psychological processes that led to the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. It recognizes the long-term continuities in the idiom of conflict (as well as cooperation), and shows that, by 1900, the conflicts and animosities were gathering a...

    Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge India
54. The Boy Travellers in the Far East (5-vol. set) (ES)

    A facsimile reprint of all five books in The Boy Travellers in the Far East: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey (1879–84) series consisting of Japan and China (1879), Siam and Java (1880), Ceylon and India (1881), Egypt and the Holy Land (1882), and Africa (1883), all written by Thomas W. Knox (...

    Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge
55. Primary Sources of Yellow Peril Series II (4-vol. set) (ES)

    Edited by Yorimitsu Hashimoto

    - The second and the final part of the series which collects various primary-source materials selected from contemporary publications and historical documents related to the phenomenon of ‘the Yellow Peril’, which contributed to the consolidation of Western consciousness by invoking the menace of...

    Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge
56. Routledge Library Editions: Anarchy

    By Various

    Series: Array

    This set re-issues four books originally published between 1926 and 1989 and includes classics such as The International Anarchy by G. Lowes Dickinson, The Anarchists by James Joll and Bakunin on Anarchy by Sam Dolgoff, as well as David Goodway's volume For Anarchism. There are many types...

    Published April 16th 2013 by Routledge
57. The International Anarchy (RLE Anarchy)

    By G. Dickinson

    Series: Routledge Library Editions Anarchy

    This volume, a classic of its time, discusses the tragic evolution of European politics from 1870-1914. The main part of the book describes the development of the relations between France, Germany, Russia and Britain and follows the sequence of political events, the Triple Alliance and Bismarck's...

    Published April 16th 2013 by Routledge
58. For Anarchism (RLE Anarchy)

    By David Goodway

    Series: Routledge Library Editions Anarchy

    This collection discusses both the history and theory of anarchism and in particular examines italian anarchism, the relationship between Marxism and anarchism, the influence of Kropotkin, new social movements and the anarchist theory of history. ...

    Published April 16th 2013 by Routledge
59. The Anarchists (RLE Anarchy)

    By James Joll

    Series: Routledge Library Editions Anarchy

    James Joll’s comprehensive book introduces the reader to the personalities, theories and practical politics of the anarchist movement throughout its history. In the first part the author discusses the early precursors of anarchism and in Part Two he presents the full spectrum of anarchist activity...

    Published April 16th 2013 by Routledge
60. Bakunin on Anarchy (RLE Anarchy)

    Edited by Sam Dolgoff

    Series: Routledge Library Editions Anarchy

    When originally published this was the first comprehensive collection in English from the works of the founder of anarchism. It includes translations of published and unpublished (in 1973) material left unfinished or unrevised at the time of Bakunin’s death. ...

    Published April 16th 2013 by Routledge