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Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century L Food Poetry and the Aesthetics of Consumption: Eating the Avant-Garde (Paperback)

From Plato s dismissal of food as a distraction from thought to Kant s relegation of the palate to the bottom of the hierarchy of the senses the sense of taste has consistently been devalued by Western aesthetics. Kant is often invoked as evidence... more

Routledge Studies in the Social History Women and Smoking since 1890 (Paperback)

The changing face of the female smoker from the lady smokers of the late nineteenth century to the lone mother of the late twentieth century suggests that the history of smoking among women is not just about the assimilation of women into a male... more

Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century P The Philosophy of Time (Paperback)

The question of the existence and the properties of time has been subject to debate for thousands of years. This considered and complete study offers a contrastive analysis of phenomenologies of time from the perspective of the problematics of the... more

Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century L Contemporary Reconfigurations of American Literary Classics: The Origin and Evolution of American Stories Book 28 (Hardcover)

The number and popularity of novels that have overtly reconfigured aspects of classic American texts suggests a curious trend for both readers and writers an impulse to retell and reread books that have come to define American culture. This book... more

Routledge International Studies in Busin Tin and Global Capitalism 1850-2000: A History of the Devil s Metal (Hardcover)

For most of the twentieth century tin was fundamental for both warfare and welfare. The importance of tin is most powerfully represented by the tin can - an invention which created a revolution in food preservation and helped feed both the armies of... more

Routledge Library Editions: History & Ph Science Industry and Society: Studies in the Sociology of Science (Paperback)

Originally published in 1970. Two major changes have characterised science in the twentieth century. Firstly there has been its rapid growth. Secondly and central to the theme his book - science is no longer mainly an academic activity carried on in... more

Routledge African Studies Environment and Economics in Nigeria (Paperback)

This volume gathers contributors across a wide range of disciplines to explore the relationship between the environment economics and development in Nigeria from the twentieth century to the present examining issues such as violence health and... more

Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century L Charles Bukowski Outsider Literature and the Beat Movement (Hardcover)

This book uses cultural and psycho-social analysis to examine the beat writer Charles Bukowski and his literature focusing on representations of the anti-hero rebel and outsider. Clements considers the complexities ambiguities and contradictions... more

Routledge Jewish Studies Nietzsche and Jewish Political Theology (Paperback)

Nietzsche and Jewish Political Theology is the first book to explore the impact of Friedrich Nietzsche s work on the formation of Jewish political theology during the first half of the twentieth century. It maps the many ways in which early Jewish... more

Routledge Studies in North American Poli Mexico-United States Relations: The Semantics of Sovereignty (Hardcover)

Sovereignty is a key factor to consider when studying the Mexico-United States relationship. During most of the twentieth century as a result of the new character of the Mexican post-revolutionary regime there was a decoupling between the state s... more

Modern Gnosis And Zionism: The Crisis Of Culture Life Philosophy And Jewish National Thought (Routledge Jewish Studies Series) - Hotam Yotam

In The Late Nineteenth And Early Twentieth Century The German Intellectual World Was Challenged By A Growing Distrust In The Rational Ideals Of The Enlightenment And Consequently By A Belief In The Existence Of A Radical ‘Cultural Crisis’. One... more

Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyber Studying Digital Media Audiences: Perspectives from Australasia (Paperback)

Although many digital platforms continue to appropriate and reconfigure familiar forms of media experience this is an environment which no longer consistently constructs an identifiable mass audience in the terms understood by twentieth century... more

Routledge Methodist Studies Anglican-Methodist Ecumenism: The Search for Church Unity 1920-2020 (Paperback)

This book offers a detailed analysis of one of the key episodes of twentieth-century ecumenism focusing on the efforts made to reconcile the Church of England and the Methodist Church of Great Britain in the years since the First World War. Drawing... more

Routledge New Critical Thinking in Relig Religion in the Thought of Mikhail Bakhtin: Reason and Faith (Hardcover)

This book examines the significance of religion in the work of the twentieth century philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin. Exploring Bakhtin s contribution to debates on methodology in the study of religion this book argues that his use of religious... more

Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europ: Women and Transformation in Russia (Hardcover)

This book looks at Russian women s mobilization and agency during the two periods of transformation the turn of the 19th-20th century and the 20th-21st century. Bringing together the parallels between the two great transformations it focuses on both... more

Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives Modern Orthodoxies: Judaic Imaginative Journeys of the Twentieth Century Book 10 (Hardcover)

This study introduces a genuine provocative religious vocabulary into the discourse on Modernist art and literature. Mulman looks at key texts and figures of the Modern period including Henry Roth Amedeo Modigliani James Joyce and Art Spiegelman... more

Routledge Studies in Theology Imagination and the Arts: Scripture Metaphysics and Poetry: Austin Farrer s the Glass of Vision with Critical Commentary (Hardcover)

This book offers a critical edition of arguably the greatest work of English theology in the 20th century: Austin Farrer s Bampton Lectures published as The Glass of Vision in 1948. Farrer was an interdisciplinary genius who made original... more

Psychology Press & Routledge Classic Edi Patterns of Attachment: A Psychological Study of the Strange Situation (Paperback)

Ethological attachment theory is a landmark of 20th century social and behavioral sciences theory and research. This new paradigm for understanding primary relationships across the lifespan evolved from John Bowlby s critique of psychoanalytic drive... more

Psychology Press & Routledge Classic Editions: Patterns of Attachment: A Psychological Study of the Strange Situation (Hardcover)

Ethological attachment theory is a landmark of 20th century social and behavioral sciences theory and research. This new paradigm for understanding primary relationships across the lifespan evolved from John Bowlby s critique of psychoanalytic drive... more

Routledge Studies in Theology Imaginati Scripture Metaphysics and Poetry: Austin Farrer s The Glass of Vision With Critical Commentary (Paperback)

This book offers a critical edition of arguably the greatest work of English theology in the 20th century: Austin Farrer s Bampton Lectures published as The Glass of Vision in 1948. Farrer was an interdisciplinary genius who made original... more

Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century P Heidegger and the Contradiction of Being: An Analytic Interpretation of the Late Heidegger (Hardcover)

This book offers a clear analytic and innovative interpretation of Heidegger s late work. This period of Heidegger s philosophy remains largely unexplored by analytic philosophers who consider it filled with inconsistencies and paradoxical ideas... more

Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Lite Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt: Literature culture and empire (Paperback)

Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt examines the link between cosmopolitanism in Egypt from the nineteenth century through to the mid-twentieth century and colonialism. While it has been widely noted that such a relationship exists the nature and impact... more

Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century L Ernest Hemingway and the Fluidity of Gender: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of Selected Works (Hardcover)

Ernest Hemingway and the Fluidity of Gender presents fresh insight into the gender issues and sexual ambiguities that have always been present in Hemingway s work utilising a variety of historical socio-cultural and biographical contexts. Offering a... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern History Treaty Ports in Modern China: Law Land and Power (Hardcover)

This book presents a wide range of new research on the Chinese treaty ports - the key strategic places on China s coast where in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries various foreign powers controlled through unequal treaties whole cities or... more

Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy: Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language (Paperback)

The limit of language is one of the most pervasive notions found in Wittgenstein s work both in his early Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and his later writings. Moreover the idea of a limit of language is intimately related to important scholarly... more

Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century L Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity: The Figure of the Map in Contemporary Theory and Fiction (Paperback)

The last fifty years have witnessed the growing pervasiveness of the figure of the map in critical theoretical and fictional discourse. References to mapping and cartography are endemic in poststructuralist theory and similarly geographically and... more

Routledge Studies in Music Theory Music and Twentieth-Century Tonality: Harmonic Progression Based on Modality and the Interval Cycles (Hardcover)

This book explores the web of pitch relations that generates the musical language of non-serialized twelve-tone music and supplies both the analytical materials and methods necessary for analyses of a vast proportion of the 20th century musical... more

Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century P Russell vs. Meinong: The Legacy of On Denoting (Paperback)

A century after On Denoting was published the debate it initiated continues to rage. On the one hand there is a mass of new historical scholarship about both Russell and Meinong which has not circulated very far beyond specialist scholars. On the... more

Routledge Studies in Asia s Transformations: Writing Okinawa: Narrative acts of identity and resistance (Paperback)

Writing Okinawa is the first comprehensive study in English of Okinawan fiction from it s emergence in the early twentieth-century through its most recent permutations. It provides readings of major authors and texts set against a carefully... more

Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century L Modernist Literature and European Identity (Paperback)

Modernist Literature and European Identity examines how European and non-European authors debated the idea of Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. It shifts the focus from European modernism to modernist Europe and shows how the notion... more

Routledge Studies in the Growth Economie Marketing and Consumption in Modern Japan Book 122 (Hardcover)

This book explores the development in Japan throughout the twentieth century of marketing and consumerism. It shows how Japan had a long established indigenous traditional approach to marketing separate from Western approaches to marketing and... more

Routledge Studies in Cultural History Shadows of the Slave Past: Memory Heritage and Slavery Book 30 (Hardcover)

This book is a transnational and comparative study examining the processes that led to the memorialization of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade in the second half of the twentieth century. Araujo explores numerous kinds of initiatives such as... more

Routledge Studies in the History of Mark Foundations of Marketing Thought: The Influence of the German Historical School (Hardcover)

The study and teaching of marketing as a university subject is generally understood to have originated in America during the early 20th century emerging as an applied branch of economics. This book tells a different story describing the influence of... more

Routledge Studies in American Philosophy Wilfrid Sellars and Twentieth-Century Philosophy (Hardcover)

This collection features eleven original essays divided into three thematic sections which explore the work of Wilfrid Sellars in relation to other twentieth-century thinkers. Section I analyzes Sellars s thought in light of some of his influential... more

Routledge Studies in Modern History War and Displacement in the Twentieth Century: Global Conflicts Book 13 (Hardcover)

Human displacement has always been a consequence of war written into the myths and histories of centuries of warfare. However the global conflicts of the twentieth century brought displacement to civilizations on an unprecedented scale as the two... more

Routledge Studies in Shakespeare Shakespeare Cinema Counter-Culture: Appropriation and Inversion (Paperback)

Addressing for the first time Shakespeare s place in counter-cultural cinema this book examines and theorizes counter-hegemonic postmodern and post-punk Shakespeare in late 20th and early 21st century film. Drawing on a diverse range of case studies... more

Routledge Studies in the History of the Problems and Alternatives in the Modern Americas (Hardcover)

This volume explores several notable themes related to political processes in Latin America and offers insightful historical perspectives to understand national regional and global issues in the continent from the beginning of the 20th century to... more

Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century L Charles Bukowski Outsider Literature and the Beat Movement (Paperback)

This book uses cultural and psycho-social analysis to examine the beat writer Charles Bukowski and his literature focusing on representations of the anti-hero rebel and outsider. Clements considers the complexities ambiguities and contradictions... more