Forthcoming Handbooks Books

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1. Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports

   Edited by Tony Collins, John Martin, Wray Vamplew

   Series: Routledge Sports Reference Series

   Providing a social, economic and political study of field sports and those other activities and customs labelled as rural sports, from the earliest of times to the present day in all of the United Kingdom and Ireland.This book brings together several distinct types of traditional rural sports with...

   To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
2. Handbook of Africa's International Relations

   Edited by Tim Murithi

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Africa’s international relations have often been defined and oriented by the dominant international and geopolitical agendas of the day. In the aftermath of colonialism the Cold War became a dominant paradigm that defined the nature of the continent’s relationship with the rest of the world. The...

   To Be Published August 11th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Democratization of International Institutions

   First International Democracy Report

   Edited by Lucio Levi, Giovanni Finizio, Nicola Vallinoto

   The democratization of international organizations is a theme increasingly debated all over the world. This is the first work on international democracy that systematically assesses the dynamics of democratization affecting most international organizations; consisting of chapters written by experts...

   To Be Published September 18th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Routledge Companion to Urban Regeneration

   Edited by Michael E. Leary, John McCarthy

   In the past decade, urban regeneration policy makers and practitioners have faced a number of difficult challenges, such as sustainability, budgetary constraints, demands for community involvement and rapid urbanization in the Global South. Urban regeneration remains a high profile and important...

   To Be Published October 3rd 2013 by Routledge
5. Handbook of Global Economic Governance

   Edited by Manuela Moschella, Catherine Weaver

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Since mid-2007, the world scenario has been dominated by the US sub-prime mortgage crisis and its repercussions on global financial markets and economic growth. As banks around the world wrote down their losses and governments intervened to rescue domestic financial institutions, financial distress...

   To Be Published October 16th 2013 by Routledge
6. Handbook of Indigenous Peoples' Rights

   Edited by Damien Short, Corinne Lennox

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   This handbook will be a comprehensive interdisciplinary overview of indigenous peoples’ rights. Chapters by experts in the field will examine legal, philosophical, sociological and political issues, addressing a wide range of themes at the heart of debates on the rights of indigenous peoples. The...

   To Be Published October 30th 2013 by Routledge
7. Handbook of Central American Governance

   Edited by Diego Sanchez-Ancochea, Salvador Martí i Puig

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Central America constitutes a fascinating case study of the challenges, opportunities and characteristics of the process of transformation in today’s global economy. Comprised of a politically diverse range of societies, this region has long been of interest to students of economic development and...

   To Be Published November 20th 2013 by Routledge
8. The World of the Indigenous Americas

   Edited by Robert Warrior

   Series: Routledge Worlds

   The World of the Indigenous Americas is a comprehensive look at issues that concern indigenous people in North America. Though no single volume can cover every tribe and every issue around this fertile area of inquiry, this book takes on the fields of law, archaeology, literature, socio-linguistics...

   To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
9. A Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South

   Edited by Susan Parnell, Sophie Oldfield

   Massive demographic and economic changes over the last three decades mean that cities that are highly profiled in the canon of urban studies no longer reflect the hubs of urbanisation or the most critical contemporary global urban problems. In this Handbook, we assess what a geographical corrective...

   To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
10. Handbook of Emerging Economies

    Edited by Robert Looney

    Series: Routledge International Handbooks

    A major new volume in the Routledge International Handbooks series analysing emerging economies, including the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and other likely (Turkey, Indonesia, Mexico, and South Korea) as well as possible (Vietnam, The Philippines, Nigeria,...

    To Be Published January 15th 2014 by Routledge