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Titles published by Routledge Major Works cover an abundance of literature on leading and influential figures, key concepts, topics and sub-disciplines across the social sciences, humanities, behavioural sciences and law.

New and Published Books

  1. 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

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final part of the series which collects various primary-source materials selected from contemporary publications and historical documents related to the phenomenon of ‘the Yellow Peril’, which contributed to the consolidation of Western consciousness by invoking the menace of...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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. A History of Atheism in Britain

    From Hobbes to Russell

    By David Berman

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

    Probably no doctrine has excited as much horror and abuse as atheism. This first history of British atheism, first published in 1987, tries to explain this reaction while exhibiting the development of atheism from Hobbes to Russell. Although avowed atheism appeared surprisingly late – 1782 in...

    Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge

  9. Scottish Tours (8-vol. set) (ES)

    Edited by Kazumi Kanatsu

    Following the success of earlier facsimile collections (Lake District Tours: A Collection of Travel Writings and Guide Books in the Romantic Era and Picturesque Wales: Facsimile Reprints of ''Pennant's Tours'' and ''Wales Illustrated''), this is the third Edition Synapse collection of travel...

    Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge

  10. Children and Empire

    Edited by Cheryl M. Cassidy, Andrea Kaston Tange

    Series: History of Feminism

    Co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse The History of Feminism series makes key archival source material readily available to scholars, researchers, and students of women’s and gender studies, women’s history, and women’s writing, as well as those working in allied and related fields....

    Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge

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Forthcoming Books

  1. The Cold War
    Edited by Steven Casey
    To Be Published June 27th 2013
  2. Women in Colonial India: Historical Documents and Sources
    Edited by Pramod K. Nayar
    To Be Published August 26th 2013
  3. Girls’ School Stories, 1749–1929
    Edited by Kristine Moruzi, Michelle Smith
    To Be Published September 25th 2013
  4. Elizabethan Non-Conformist Texts
    Edited by Leland H. Carlson, Albert Peel
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  5. Greek Thought and the Origins of the Scientific Spirit
    By Leon Robin
    To Be Published September 29th 2013

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