Books in the Routledge Revivals series

First published in 1989, The Haunt of Misery offers social workers and students critical essays for critical times. Faced with unreflective wealth creation and the fragmentation of the counterculture, social work is perceived as failing to meet the needs of the client.

First published in 1944, The Dutch Nation studies not only the origin of national consciousness among the author¿s compatriots, but also the development of the national character of the Dutch, the birth of parties in their State, and the rise of the House of Orange.

First published in 1957, The Domestic Dog is the introduction to the history of man¿s best friend, with special reference to Great Britain.

First published in 1938 A Constitutional History of England presents a comprehensive overview of various aspects and problems of English Constitutional history. Divided into six major parts it discusses important themes like the problem of sovereignty; church and state; the forces of the Crown; and the press.

First published in 1945, The Condemned Playground expresses the author¿s personal views on art and literature and the social science.

First published in 1958 Concerning Human Understanding treats the chief problems of philosophy. It offers a restatement of the problems of knowledge, attempts a solution of the conflict between science and philosophy and handles the baffling problem: `is metaphysics possible?¿

First published in 1967, British Locomotive Design is a review of British locomotive practice during the century and a quarter of steam¿s ascendency.

First published in 1981, Bread, Knowledge and Freedom is a study of 142 working class autobiographies all of which cover some part of the period between 1790 and 1850.

First published in 1990, Alcohol, Social Work and Helping provides coherent and imaginative advice on how to counsel the growing number of clients whose use of alcohol causes of problems.

Originally published in 1972, this book contains selected significant documents to illustrate Soviet foreign policy between 1953 and 1970 in the words of Soviet leaders and Soviet people.

Originally published in 1991, The Roots of Appeasement outlines the attitudes of the British weekly press and its editors to Nazism and to German and British foreign policies during the 1930s. It analyses and interprets the reasons which underlay those attitudes.

An exploration of popular religion in China. Feuchtwang demonstrates that this is not China's named religion - Daoism. The popular religion includes elements of both Buddhism and the imperial cults, more of Daoism, but is identifiable with none of them. It is a religion of the common people.

First Published in 1982 West Germany presents a new approach to the study of contemporary Germany. The past history of the country is used to explain its present state, since the roots of many of the events of this century can be found as far back as the Middle Ages.

First published in 1986 The West Bank Palestinian Family presents the reader with the first comprehensive study of the evolution of the Palestinian family in the West Bank. An important historical document, this book is a must read for scholars of Middle east studies and Middle east politics.

First Published in 1967 the Tactics of Resignation examines the principles of collective and individual ministerial responsibility and investigates the parallel problems related to the shadow cabinet in Britain.

First published in 1988, Security & Arms Control in the North Pacific is the first book to focus on the question of North Pacific arms control. Some chapters examine the problems and prospects for arms control in particular states - the USA, erstwhile USSR, China, Japan, the two Koreas, and Canada.

First Published in 1967 The Sea Years of Joseph Conrad is a major biography, a fruit of Jerry Allen¿s ten years of extensive research making use of records located in fifteen countries, the majority never before published.

First Published in 1983, Salvation of the Soul and Islamic Devotion demonstrates that salvation is a central concept of the religion of Islam. Efforts are made to make the book useful to both Muslim and non-Muslim readers of English interested in the Islamic theory of salvation and acts of devotion.

First published in 1947 Russian Zone is a record of the conditions Gordon Schaffer found in the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany during a stay of ten weeks. In that time, he had interviewed scores of Germans in positions of responsibility.