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Routledge Major Works has a strong international focus and each of the sets is edited by a leading expert in their field. This publishing programme continues to grow with new book series being created all the time. Worthy mentions include a new Sports Studies and Construction Series.

Titles published by Routledge Major Works cover an abundance of literature on leading and influential figures, key concepts, topics and sub-disciplines across the social sciences, humanities, behavioural sciences and law.

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  1. Urban Culture

    Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

    Edited by Chris Jenks

    Series: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

    This collection is an interdisciplinary study focusing on the various cultural aspects of city life. The works included are drawn from a broad range of canonical and secondary sources and emphasise the 'new', covering modernist and postmodernist perspectives of urban culture. The collection is...

    Published July 21st 2004 by Routledge

  2. Tourism

    Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

    Edited by Stephen Williams

    Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

    Examining exactly what social scientists mean by the term tourism, and what it means to be a tourist, this collection charts the sociological changes that have occurred in tourism, as well as the shift from the upper-class ‘grand tours’ of the late nineteenth-century to the mass tourism of the...

    Published October 22nd 2003 by Routledge

  3. The Economics of a Declining Population

    By W.B. Reddaway

    The economic consequences of changing demographics are of as much significance now as when this book was first published. The book covers not only changes in population size and age-composition, but also factors not included in the word 'declining' - such as increased life expectancy. Part 1...

    Published March 4th 2003 by Routledge

  4. Environmentalism

    Critical Concepts in the Environment

    Edited by David Pepper, George Revill, Frank Webster

    Series: Critical Concepts in the Environment

    Modern environmentalism is now over fifty years old. This five volume set provides wide-ranging coverage of the state and scope of environmentalism from its science-driven, physical geography-focused roots to its spread to social science and cultural studies. The articles and accompanying...

    Published November 20th 2002 by Routledge

  5. Climate Change

    Critical Concepts in the Environment

    Edited by Frank Chambers, Michael Ogle

    Series: Critical Concepts in the Environment

    The science of climate change has experienced an extraordinary expansion in the period since the mid-1980s and is paralleled by considerable public and political awareness of related issues.The degree of natural variability in, and the causes of, climate change have become particularly important...

    Published October 30th 2002 by Routledge

  6. The City

    Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

    Edited by Michael Pacione

    Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

    This anthology synthesises a wealth of published research to provide students of the city with a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the key concepts and themes in contemporary urban studies.This collection comprises over 130 seminal readings accompanied by embedded references to guide...

    Published October 24th 2001 by Routledge

  7. Development

    Edited by Stuart Corbridge

    Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

    In this fascinating six volume set, Stuart Corbridge brings together more than one hundred articles dealing with the discipline of development in all its diversity. Key topics include the transformation of peasant economies, argibusiness, rural-urban relations, markets, industrialization, workers,...

    Published December 8th 1999 by Routledge

  8. Early Urban Planning: 1870-1940

    Edited by Richard LeGates, Frederic Stout

    This set is a carefully balanced selection of writings representing some of the most important currents in the thought of city and regional planning during the period 1870-1940 when urban planning emerged as a serious disciplinary field.The set consists of eight key books from this period,...

    Published February 11th 1998 by Routledge

  9. The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales

    1894-5

    Edited by J.H.F. Brabner

    Series: Early Sources in Reference

    This is an authoritative source of detailed information about the cities, towns, villages and hamlets of England and Wales a century ago. Comprehensively researched over a number of years, the information consists of many thousands of entries compiled and evaluated by the relevant local authorities...

    Published April 2nd 1997 by Routledge

  10. A Geographical Introduction to History

    By L. Febvre

    Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize...

    Published March 19th 1997 by Routledge

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Forthcoming Books

  1. A Geographical Introduction to History
    By L. Febvre
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  2. Urban Design
    Edited by Tridib Banerjee
    To Be Published November 14th 2013
  3. Urban Theory
    Edited by Simon Parker
    To Be Published November 14th 2013

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