Routledge Revivals
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Humanism in the Age of Henry VIII
1st Edition
By Maria Dowling
May 13, 2026
First published in 1986, Humanism in the Age of Henry VIII is concerned with the flourishing humanism outside the religious and political spheres in many different fields and its intellectual and cultural impact on the schools and universities and in the realm of private study, paying particular ...
Introducing Yugoslavia
1st Edition
By Lovett F. Edwards
May 13, 2026
Introducing Yugoslavia (1954) looks at the racial and historic chequer-board of 1950s Yugoslavia, providing a fascinating insight into the social and cultural aspects of a land that few Westerners visited at the time. Avoiding politics, it provides sociocultural descriptions and historical details ...
John Bunyan: Allegory and Imagination
1st Edition
By E. Beatrice Batson
May 13, 2026
First published in 1984, John Bunyan: Allegory and Imagination is informed not only by an enthusiasm for Bunyan but by an understanding of the literary and theological currents of the time. Criticism of John Bunyan has generally presented him as ‘an artist in spite of himself’, an unreflective ...
Lawless Youth: A Challenge to the New Europe
1st Edition
By Margery Fry, M. Grünhut, Hermann Mannheim, Wanda Grabinska, C.D. Rackham
May 13, 2026
Lawless Youth (1947) is a book prepared under the auspices of the International Committee of the Howard League for Penal Reform during the Second World War, aiming for the day when peace could offer the opportunity for advance on the lines of justice and humanity. The authors visualised the grim ...
Military Technology, Military Strategy and the Arms Race
1st Edition
By Marek Thee
May 13, 2026
First published in 1986, Military Technology, Military Strategy and the Arms Race argues that a principal factor contributing to the arms race is the military research and development (R and D) sector. It traces the arms race since World War II and explores the relationship between the emergence of...
New Shapes of Reality: Aspects of A.N. Whitehead's Philosophy
1st Edition
By Martin Jordan
May 13, 2026
New Shapes of Reality (1968) examines the works and thoughts of A.N. Whitehead, a major philosopher of great originality whose work touches all our preoccupations – but who fell out of favour and became rather obscure. This book encourages a Whitehead revival, and stresses a point of importance to ...
Nuclear Power Struggles: Industrial Competition and Proliferation Control
1st Edition
By William Walker, Måns Lönnroth
May 13, 2026
First published in 1983, Nuclear Power Struggles (now with a new preface by the authors) analyses the strains within the nuclear reactor industry and assesses the scale and location of future markets. It looks at the strengths and weaknesses of leading exporters and considers what can be done to ...
Pacific Asia in the 1990s
1st Edition
By Masahide Shibusawa, Zakaria Haji Ahmad, Brian Bridges
May 13, 2026
First published in 1992, Pacific Asia in the 1990s explores the main economic and political trends among the Pacific Asian countries in the second half of the 1980s. It suggests where the potential problems lie and where the opportunities are. This book is an unusual collaborative venture in that...
Philosophy and Human Movement
1st Edition
By David Best dec'd
May 13, 2026
First published in 1978, Philosophy and Human Movement examines the major philosophical issues in the rapidly growing field of the study of human movement, physical education, and sport and dance. Issues which start with, and grow from, the central problem of the relation of body to mind. The ...
Policy and Power in Education: The Rise and Fall of the LEA
1st Edition
By Harold Heller, Peter Edwards
May 13, 2026
The fortunes of the education service in Britain have been intimately bound up with the vitality of the local education authorities, particularly in the decades following the 1944 Education Act. The passing of the 1988 Education Reform Act saw the LEAs in serious—perhaps terminal—decline. First ...
Politics in Modern Africa: The Uneven Tribal Dimension
1st Edition
By Kenneth Ingham
May 13, 2026
First published in 1990, Politics in Modern Africa explores the impact of traditional loyalties (‘tribalism’) on political and economic problems in nine African states-Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Senegal, Guinea, Zaire, Angola, and Zimbabwe. Professor Kenneth Ingham, a leading historian of ...
Science, Politics and the Cold War
1st Edition
By Greta Jones
May 13, 2026
First published in 1988, Science, Politics and the Cold War is a history of the cold-war era that demonstrates the extent to which science and scientists have been implicated in every aspect of the political process. The book discusses how politically aware scientists involved themselves in ...