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The Use of Philosophy (Routledge Revivals)

Californian Addresses

By John Muirhead

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1928, this book reproduces the lectures and addresses that John Henry Muirhead gave on various occasions during the two and a half years he spent as Lecturer of Philosophy on the Mills Foundation at the University of California, USA. The different chapters look at the meaning and...

Published August 6th 2012 by Routledge

Beltaine (Routledge Revivals)

The Organ of the Irish Literary Theatre

Edited by W Yeats

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1970, this book is a faithful representation of the original edition of Beltaine, a literary magazine edited by W. B. Yeats from May 1899 to April 1900. Beltaine was the first of several magazines of the Irish Literary Theatre (later to become The Abbey Theatre) in which...

Published August 9th 2012 by Routledge

Samhain (Routledge Revivals)

October 1901 - November 1908

Edited by W Yeats

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1970, this book includes all of the annual editions and also a final pamphlet of Samhain: October 1901 – November 1908, a literary magazine edited by W. B. Yeats. Samhain was one of the several magazines that the Irish Literary Theatre (later to become The Abbey Theatre) produced...

Published August 9th 2012 by Routledge

Peace Through Education (Routledge Revivals)

The Contribution of the Council for Education in World Citizenship

By Derek Heater

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1984, Peace Through Education records the history of the first 45 years of the Council for Education in World Citizenship (CEWC). It describes the rise in interest of increased international understanding in the years preceding the book’s publication and highlights the...

Published September 20th 2012 by Routledge

Women, Power and Subversion (Routledge Revivals)

Social Strategies in British Fiction, 1778-1860

By Judith Lowder Newton

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1981, this book explores the reactions of some female writers to the social effects of industrial capitalism between 1778 and 1860. The period set in motion a crisis over the status of middle-class women that culminated in the constructed idea of "women’s proper sphere". This...

Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge

Plato's Theory of Knowledge (Routledge Revivals)

By Norman Gulley

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1962, this book provides a systematic account of the development of Plato’s theory of knowledge. Beginning with a consideration of the Socratic and other influences which determined the form in which the problem of knowledge first presented itself to Plato, the author then works...

Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge

Policy Styles in Western Europe (Routledge Revivals)

By Jeremy Richardson

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1982, Policy Styles in Western Europe considers the growth of the modern state in the 1980s and examines the implications of this for the making and implementation of public policy decisions. It argues that the business of government was simply easier in the 1970s and that the...

Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge

Rehabilitation and Deviance (Routledge Revivals)

By Philip Bean

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1976, this book examines rehabilitation within the penal system in Britain in the 1970s. It argues that the ‘rehabilitative ideal’ is not the only possible alternative to a penal policy but an option which has now become institutionalized and alien to traditional concepts of...

Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge

Women, Crime and Criminology (Routledge Revivals)

A Feminist Critique

By Carol Smart

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1977, Women, Crime and Criminology presents a feminist critique of classical and contemporary theories of female criminality. It addresses the issue that criminology literature has, throughout history, been predominantly male-oriented, always treating female criminality as...

Published October 3rd 2012 by Routledge

Medieval Political Ideas (Routledge Revivals)

Volume I

By Ewart Lewis

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1954, this book explores the political ideas of the Middle Ages. It covers the period from the investiture struggle to the end of the fifteenth century and provides comprehensive readings of otherwise inaccessible source material. Each chapter begins with an introductory essay on...

Published August 31st 2012 by Routledge

Medieval Political Ideas (Routledge Revivals)

Volume II

By Ewart Lewis

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1954, this book explores the political ideas of the Middle Ages. It covers the period from the investiture struggle to the end of the fifteenth century and provides comprehensive readings of otherwise inaccessible source material. Each chapter begins with an introductory essay on...

Published August 31st 2012 by Routledge

Gender, Class and Education (Routledge Revivals)

By Stephen Walker, Len Barton

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1983, Gender, Class and Education is a collection of papers that formed presentations at the Westhill Sociology of Education Conference in January 1982, and is the fifth such collection to emerge from the annual conference. The conference theme, ‘Race, Class and Gender’, was not...

Published August 31st 2012 by Routledge

A Companion to Post-War British Theatre (Routledge Revivals)

By Philip Barnes

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1986, this compilation offers a guide to the major aspects of contemporary British theatre. In the period covered, Britain was among the world leaders in theatre as the post-war years saw a remarkable surge in theatrical creativity, associated with the experimental, innovatory...

Published August 31st 2012 by Focal Press

Artisans and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century London (Routledge Revivals)

John Gast and his Times

By Iorwerth Prothero

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1979, this book was the first, full-length study of working-class movements in London between 1800 and the beginnings of Chartism in the later 1830s. The leaders and rank and file in these movements were almost invariably artisans, and this book examines the position of the...

Published August 31st 2012 by Routledge

The Ties That Bind (Routledge Revivals)

Law, Marriage and the Reproduction of Patriarchal Relations

By Carol Smart

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1984, this book made an important and timely contribution to the development of the idea that the law is a major source of women’s oppression. Based on research of the theory and practice of family law, it examines the way in which private law operates to sustain, reproduce and...

Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge

Socio-Economic Models in Geography (Routledge Revivals)

Edited by Richard Chorley, Peter Haggett

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1968, this book explores the theme of geographical generalization, or model building. It is composed of seven of the chapters from the original Models in Geography, published in 1967. The first chapter broadly outlines this theme and examines the nature and function of...

Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge

Main Trends in the Science of Language (Routledge Revivals)

By Roman Jakobson

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in Great Britain in 1973, Main Trends in the Science of Language was part of a series of books that resulted from a study carried out by UNESCO in collaboration with national and international research centres in the social sciences, as well as with groups of individual scholars....

Published October 25th 2012 by Routledge