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The International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction (ILSSR) was created in England in 1942 by the publishing firm of Routledge Kegan Paul (RKP)2 — which seems an astonishing effort of hope for the future in the middle of the Second World War, but that was not atypical of the time. RKP already had several such series, including the International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method (which published Wittgenstein). This new series sold well; in 1947 a RKP correspondent remarked that it ‘has proved to be one of our most profitable publishing undertakings, and the demand for volumes in this country has steadily increased and continues to increase even now when there is a marked decline in the demand for more ephemeral works’.3 Many of the early books are now again available, republished with dates from 2010, so they have indeed not proved ephemeral.
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Platt, J. (2014). The International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction and British Sociology. In: Holmwood, J., Scott, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Sociology in Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137318862_11
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