Routledge Library Editions re-issue volumes from the distinguished and extensive backlist of the many imprints associated with Routledge in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Kegan Paul, Trench & Trubner, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Methuen, Allen & Unwin and Routledge itself. Focusing mainly (but not exclusively) on the Humanities and Social Sciences, Routledge Library Editions offer the individual as well as the institutional purchaser the opportunity to acquire volumes by some of the greatest thinkers and authors of the last 120 years either on a title-by-title basis or as carefully selected mini-sets or extensive ‘libraries’ of 50+ volumes.
By Professor Mary Douglas, Mary Douglas
September 05, 2002
Mary Douglas is a central figure within British social anthropology. Studying under Evans-Pritchard at Oxford immediately after the second world war, she formed part of the group of anthropologists who established social anthropology's standing in the world of scholarship. Her works, spanning the ...
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By John Constable
February 05, 2002
I. A. Richards was the most influential of the first generation of academic literary theorists. This definitive collection of his writing between 1919 and 1938 shows that Richards' position was distinct from the emerging consensus in university literary education.Richards is often misunderstood as ...
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By Various
December 20, 2001
First published by Routledge Kegan & Paul 1986-1991, this new reprint collection makes available once again the most important primary sources from the Fawcett library in an accessible resource. The pamphlets and papers gathered here illustrate major debates on a range of issues including suffrage...
September 27, 2001
This is a re-issue of the former Routledge & Kegan Paul series The Foreign Policies of the Great Powers.Making use of archival material, each title provides a unique slant on the foreign policies of world powers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....
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By H.J. Dyos, Michael Wolff
December 20, 2000
Originally published in two volumes, The Victorian City was a major landmark, particularly in the study of the social and intellectual attitudes of Victorian society to the challenge of urbanization. Unique in its many-sided approach to the total phenomenon of the city, this set deals on many ...
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By Gordon Mingay
November 15, 2000
Following the success of The Victorian City, we are delighted to announce the forthcoming reprint of The Victorian Countryside. Originally published in two volumes, this set represents a major landmark in the social history of the United Kingdom. It provides a detailed and authoritative survey of a...
By Richard M. Dorson
September 22, 1999
This set re-issues classic works on folklore by Richard M. Dorson which trace the historical development of the idea of folklore from the sixteenth century to the First World War. The set also brings together theoretical writings from some of the most influential folklorists. The following titles ...
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By T.W. Craik, Clifford Leech, Lois Potter
October 15, 1997
This work provides a comprehensive account of drama written and performed in English from its roots in the medieval mystery plays to the progress of drama in Britain and America since 1945. The volumes, which are arranged chronologically, critically examine the drama, playwrights, actors and ...
By Ludwig Wittgenstein
June 12, 1997
Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, first published in 1921, has had a profound influence on modern philosophic thought. Prototractatus is a facsimile reproduction of an early version of Tractatus, only discovered in 1965. The original text has a parallel English translation and the text...
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By John M. Robson
July 25, 1996
The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill took thirty years to complete and is acknowledged as the definitive edition of his writings and as one of the finest works editions ever completed.Mill's contributions to philosophy, economics and history, and in the roles of scholar, politician and ...