Humanities Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. Islam, Law and Identity

   Edited by Marinos Diamantides, Adam Gearey

   The essays brought together in Islam, Law and Identity are the product of a series of interdisciplinary workshops that brought together scholars from a plethora of countries. Funded by the British Academy the workshops convened over a period of two years in London, Cairo and Izmir. The workshops...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge-Cavendish
2. A Mirror to Kathleen's Face (Routledge Revivals)

   Education in Independent Ireland 1922-60

   By Donald Akenson

   First published in 1975, Donald Akenson’s book was at the forefront of a radically new approach to the study of Irish educational history. Instead of investigating the evolution of the schools as an isolated process, he explores the complex interrelations of Irish education, institutions and...

   Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
3. Education and Enmity (Routledge Revivals)

   The Control of Schooliing in Northern Ireland 1920-50

   By Donald Akenson

   First published in 1973 Professor Akenson’s book traces the series of religious and political controversies which have battered the state schools of Northern Ireland. After the government’s admirably intentioned, but muddled, attempt to create a non-sectarian school system in the early 1920s, the...

   Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
4. A Gathered Church (Routledge Revivals)

   The Literature of the English Dissenting Interest, 1700-1930

   By Donald Davie

   First published in 1978, this study considers the impact of dissenting voices upon literature, religion and politics in order to reassess the nonconformist contribution to English culture from the eighteenth century through to the twentieth. This historical survey takes into the account the...

   Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Women's Movement and Women's Employment in Nineteenth Century Britain

   By Ellen Jordan

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

   In the first half of the nineteenth century the main employments open to young women in Britain were in teaching, dressmaking, textile manufacture and domestic service. After 1850, however, young women began to enter previously all-male areas like medicine, pharmacy, librarianship, the civil...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. Science and the Media

   Alternative Routes to Scientific Communications

   By Massimiano Bucchi

   Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

   In the days of global warming and BSE, science is increasingly a public issue. This book provides a theoretical framework which allows us to understand why and how scientists address the general public. The author develops the argument that turning to the public is not simply a response to...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
7. Dewey-Arg Philosophers

   By J.E. Tiles

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
8. Architecture, Print Culture and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France

   By Richard Wittman

   Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

   This book focuses on the complex ways in which architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass public and a reconfigured public sphere between the end of the seventeenth century and the French Revolution. Presenting a fresh theoretical...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
9. American Regulatory Federalism and Telecommunications Infrastructure

   Edited by Paul E. Teske

   Series: LEA Telecommunications Series

   During this era of construction of the information superhighway, this volume presents a prudent analysis of the pros and cons of continuing state regulation of telecommunications. While interested parties either attack or defend state regulation, careful scholarly analysis is required to strike the...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
10. Information Society Studies

    By Alistair S. Duff

    Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society

    We are often told that we are "living in an information society" or that we are "information workers." But what exactly do these claims mean, and how might they be verified? In this important methodological study, Alistair S. Duff cuts through the rhetoric to get to the bottom of the "information...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge