Routledge Revivals 2011

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Welcome to the Routledge Revivals 2011: Key Titles and Extensive Backlist Catalogue. Routledge Revivals offer a vast array of titles across the Social Sciences and Humanities, especially in the Philosophy, History and Literature subject areas and in the fields of Sociology, Economics and Politics.

We also have a number of multi-volume sets from leading thinkers such as Emile Durkheim and Walter Ullmann.

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Sociology

Featured Sociology Title: History and Society

First published as a collection in 1978, these ten essays, spanning the length of Professor Tawney’s career remain as controversial and potent as ever, and the original introduction by J. M. Winter provides the first full evaluation and significance of R. H. Tawney’s approach to economic history.

  1. Historical Materialism

    A System of Sociology

    By Nikolai Bukharin

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in English in 1926, this work by Nikolai Bukharin, a highly influential Marxist and Soviet Politician who would later become one of the most famous victims of Stalin’s show trials, expands upon Karl Marx’s theory of historical materialism. Offering a Marxist interpretation of...

    Published May 17th 2011 by Routledge

  2. Ethics in the British Civil Service (Routledge Revivals)

    By Richard A. Chapman

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1988, this book is about the application of moral standards in the course of official work in the British civil service. It approaches the subject by examining the career of Sir Edward Bridges, Head of the Civil Service from 1945 to 1956. The book raises questions, of major...

    Published March 8th 2011 by Routledge

  3. Giddens' Theory of Structuration

    A Critical Appreciation

    Edited by Christopher Bryant, David Jary

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    Anthony Giddens is one of the most respected and influential social theorists at work today. This wide-ranging and stimulating volume, first published in 1991, provides an authoratative and penetrating critical assessment of social theory. It will be of use to all students of sociology and social...

    Published March 13th 2011 by Routledge

  4. Social Theory as Science (Routledge Revivals)

    By Russell Keat, John Urry

    This book, written by a philosopher interested in the problems of social science and scientific method, and a sociologist interested in the philosophy of science, presents a novel conception of how we should think about and carry out the scientific study of social life. This book combines an...

    Published January 30th 2011 by Routledge

  5. Women's Employment and the Capitalist Family

    By Ben Fine

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1992, Women's Employment and the Capitalist Family is an analysis of the contemporary political interest in the position of women. The author critically assesses much of the literature examining the rapidly changing lives of women and contributes to it by offering an explanation...

    Published February 7th 2011 by Routledge

  6. Millennium and Charisma Among Pathans (Routledge Revivals)

    A Critical Essay in Social Anthropology

    By Akbar Ahmed

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1976, this Routledge Revivals reissue presents an analysis of the Swat Pathans, the people of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, who belong administratively to Pakistan despite being a fiercely independent group, with their own codes and ways of life. Akbar S. Ahmed,...

    Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge

  7. The Ethnomethodologists (Routledge Revivals)

    By W.W. Sharrock, Bob Anderson

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    Originally published in 1986, this work examines how key figures such as Garfinkel, Sacks and Cicourel have revolutionised thinking about how sociology's presuppositions about 'being social' are grounded. Yet until the appearance of this book there were no clear and authoritative...

    Published February 14th 2011 by Routledge

  8. Privilege in the Soviet Union (Routledge Revivals)

    A Study of Elite Life-Styles under Communism

    By Mervyn Matthews

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1978, this unique work throws much-needed light upon the exact nature of privilege and elite life-styles in the contemporary Soviet Union, under the Communist regime. Dr Matthews' study places these life-styles in a historical perspective, and characterises, in...

    Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge

  9. The Hurricane

    By Roger A Pielke

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1990, this book describes the nature of the hurricane, one of the world's most dangerous weather hazards. It examines the formation, development, movement, and impact of these tropical cyclones, and assess the ability of science to describe, forecast, and control them....

    Published March 30th 2011 by Routledge

  10. The Malaysian Economy

    Spatial perspectives

    By George Cho

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1990, this study analyses the development and success of the Malaysian economy since independence in 1957. The author explores various facets of the contemporary centrally-planned development policy and the colonial inheritance from which it derives. It becomes evident that rural...

    Published March 6th 2011 by Routledge

  11. Kinship and Social Organisation (Routledge Revivals)

    By W. H. R. Rivers

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1914, W. H. R. Rivers' hugely influential study was the first to effectively demonstrate the close connection between methods of denoting relationship or kinship and forms of social organisation, including those based on different forms of the institution...

    Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge

  12. The Status of Everyday Life (Routledge Revivals)

    A Sociological Excavation of the Prevailing Framework of Perception

    By Fiona Mackie

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1985, this reissue indicates the extent to which our basic perceptual structure is bound to and limited by a particular underlying perceptual patterning. Fiona Mackie reaches deeper even than the Habermasian approach to rationality by tracing an underlying structuring of...

    Published February 7th 2011 by Routledge

  13. Politics and Social Theory

    Edited by Peter Lassman

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1989, this Routledge Revival is a major collection of essays on the competing traditions of social and political theory. The contributions, by international scholars, reflect the re-examination of the boundaries between the ‘political’ and the ‘social’, the ‘public’ and ‘...

    Published May 21st 2011 by Routledge

  14. Cults, New Religions and Religious Creativity

    By Geoffrey Nelson

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    The twentieth century has been marked by an unprecedented outburst of religious activity on a world-wide scale, and in particular by a mushrooming of numerous religious movements. This work, first published in 1987, takes a fresh approach to the understanding of this phenomenon, an approach...

    Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge

  15. Anthony Giddens (Routledge Revivals)

    By Ian Craib

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    The Giddens phenomenon has been one of the most obvious and talked about features of world sociology since the late 1960’s. This book, first published in 1992, provides a prudent and essential critical introduction to one of the leading sociologists of our time. The book is intended to provide...

    Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge

  16. Semantics and Social Science

    By Graham MacDonald, Philip Pettit

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    Originally published in 1980, this book examines the major issues in the philosophy of social science, paying specific attention to cross-cultural understanding, humanism versus scientism, individualism versus collectivism, and the shaping of theory by evaluative commitment. Arguing for a...

    Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge

  17. Socialism and Social Science (Routledge Revivals)

    Selected Writings of Ervin Szabó (1877-1918)

    Edited by György Litván, János Bak

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    The essays and letters of Ervin Szabó (1877-1918) present proof of his critical insight into Marxist theory and of his perceptive analysis of socialism around the turn of the century. His ideals of an engaged social science and an enlightened socialism, his preoccupation with the socialist future,...

    Published July 25th 2011 by Routledge

  18. Gramsci's Historicism

    A Realist Interpretation

    By Esteve Morera

    First published in 1990, this book is a comprehensive study of Gramsci's Quaderni, and gives the reader a penetrating account of the structure of Gramsci's thought. The author draw on many materials and sources, making accesible to the English-speaking reader a wide range of texts otherwise...

    Published November 30th 2010 by Routledge

  19. Social Choice (Routledge Revivals)

    By Bernhardt Liebermann

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1971, Social Choice is both a text and reference containing the proceedings of a conference dealing with contemporary work on the normative and descriptive aspects of the social choice problem. This reissue will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and graduate...

    Published February 24th 2011 by Routledge

  20. Reference Groups and the Theory of Revolution (Routledge Revivals)

    By John Urry

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1973, this is a reissue of John Urry's important and influential study of the theory of revolution. Part 1 offers a detailed discussion of the concept of the reference group, tracing its development from the symbolic interactionist tradition and then showing how it...

    Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge

  21. Marxist Aesthetics

    The foundations within everyday life for an emancipated consciousness

    By Pauline Johnson

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    Originally published in 1984, this study deals with a number of influential figures in the European tradition of Marxist theories of aesthetics, ranging from Lukacs to Benjamin, through the Frankfurt School, to Brecht and the Althusserians. Pauline Johnson shows that, despite the great diversity in...

    Published March 30th 2011 by Routledge

  22. Man and the Social Sciences (Routledge Revivals)

    Twelve lectures delivered at the London School of Economics and Political Science tracing the development of the social sciences during the present century

    Edited by William Alexander Robson

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    One of the most significant movements in the world of learning in the twentieth century was the rise and development of the social sciences. However, few attempts have been made to see how far social scientists have travelled on the road to studying and understanding human society. First published...

    Published June 16th 2011 by Routledge

  23. Enterprise Culture

    Edited by Russell Keat, Nicholas Abercrombie

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1991, this book consists of twelve papers, all specifically written for this volume, and an Introduction which maps out some of the key conceptual and theoretical issues raised by the phenomenon. The first group of papers draws upon and analyses the political claims made on...

    Published March 8th 2011 by Routledge