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Browse History books by subject from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.

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Recently Published Books

1. Built from Below: British Architecture and the Vernacular

   Edited by Peter Guillery

   This book extends the concept of British vernacular architecture beyond its traditional base of pre-modern domestic and industrial architecture to embrace other buildings such as places of worship, villas, hospitals, suburban semis and post-war mass housing. Engaging with wider issues of social and...

   Published July 27th 2010 by Routledge
2. Hermeneutics and Social Science (Routledge Revivals)

   Approaches to Understanding

   By Zygmunt Bauman

   Originally in 1978, this important work, by one of the leading European social theorists, is arguably the best introduction to the hermeneutic tradition as a whole. It is designed to help students of sociology and philosophy place the problems of "understanding social science" in their historical...

   Published July 27th 2010 by Routledge
3. Being Brahmin, Being Modern

   Exploring the Lives of Caste Today

   By Ramesh Bairy

   There is clearly an academic and political obsession with the ‘idea’ of the Brahmin. There is also, simultaneously, a near-complete absence of engagement with the Brahmin as an embodied person or community. This book addresses this intriguing paradox by making available a sociological description...

   Published July 27th 2010 by Routledge India
4. Power and Influence in India

   Bosses, Lords and Captains

   Edited by Pamela Price, Arild Engelsen Ruud

   Taking cognisance of the lack of studies on leadership in modern India, this book explores how leadership is practiced in the Indian context, examining this across varied domains — from rural settings and urban neighbourhoods to political parties and state governments. The importance of individual...

   Published July 27th 2010 by Routledge India
5. Education and Society in a Changing Mizoram

   The Practice of Pedagogy

   By Lakshmi Bhatia

   Located in the domain of cultural politics, the book with rich ethnographical data from Mizoram, a lesser known and understood state, brings the community, state and culture to centre-stage, along with family and stratification of the sociological discourse in education. The book argues for a...

   Published July 27th 2010 by Routledge India
6. Chaos in Yemen

   Societal Collapse and the New Authoritarianism

   By Isa Blumi

   Series: Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies

   Chaos in Yemen challenges recent interpretations of Yemen’s complex social, political and economic transformations since unification in 1990. By offering a new perspective to the violence afflicting the larger region, it explains why the ‘Abdullah ‘Ali Salih regime has become the principal...

   Published July 26th 2010 by Routledge
7. Mourning Dress (Routledge Revivals)

   A Costume and Social History

   By Lou Taylor

   First published in 1983, Mourning Dress chronicles the development of European and American mourning dress and etiquette from the Middle Ages to the present day, highlighting similarities and differences in practices between the different social strata. The result is a book which is not only of...

   Published July 25th 2010 by Routledge
8. A History of Europe (Routledge Revivals)

   From the Invasions to the XVI Century

   By Henri Pirenne

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1939, this is a reissue of Henri Pirenne's extremely popular and influential history of Europe in the Middle Ages. It begins with the Barbarian and Musulman invasions in the fifth century AD, which signalled the end of the Roman world in the West, and&...

   Published July 25th 2010 by Routledge
9. The American Urban Reader

   History and Theory

   Edited by Steven H. Corey, Lisa Krissoff Boehm

   The American Urban Reader brings together the most exciting work on the evolution of the American city, from colonial settlement and western expansion to post-industrial cities and the growth of the suburbs. Each of the chronologically and thematically organized chapters includes thoughtfully...

   Published July 22nd 2010 by Routledge
10. A History of Irish Economic Thought

    Edited by Thomas Boylan, Renee Prendergast, John Turner

    Series: The Routledge History of Economic Thought

    For a country that can boast a distinguished tradition of political economy from Sir William Petty through Swift, Berkeley, Hutcheson, Burke and Cantillon through to that of Longfield, Cairnes, Bastable, Edgeworth, Geary and Gorman, it is surprising that no systematic study of Irish political...

    Published July 21st 2010 by Routledge