Books in the Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences series

Material culture is the study of material products of human manufacturing processes, or "the history of things". This five-volume set brings together key 19th and 20th century texts to create a comprehensive survey of material culture.

Drawing on a variety of disciplines, this four-volume collection covers anthropology, sociology, psychology, history, cultural history, land economy, and, outside of the arts and social sciences, disciplines such as health sciences and health economics. It aims to serve as a resource for both student and scholar alike.

A new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences, this is a four-volume collection of cutting-edge and canonical research on population studies.

'Social capital' is a major conceptual and theoretical idea that has received much attention across many social-science disciplines. This title presents the research in the field.

Part of the "Routledge Major Works" series, this is a four-volume collection of canonical research in Leisure Studies.

Brings together the diversity of research work from across the social sciences on the topic of human-animal relations. This collection also provides overviews of research that has been carried out within particular disciplines in this area.

Economic geography is a key branch of human geography. This book covers the areas of the project of economic geography; realms of wealth creation in a globalizing economy; changing worlds of work and welfare; and, the cultural economy regulating the economic landscape. It captures the elements involved in the intellectual development of the field.

This collection draws on an international range of published research and authors to reflect the wide range of interest in and expertise on the contemporary city. The set is fully indexed and contains new introductions.

This title examines what social scientists mean by the term tourism, and what it means to be a tourist. The volumes chart the sociological changes that have occurred in tourism, and the change from the upper-class grand tours of the late 19th-century to the mass tourism of the 21st century.

This set will give a clear sense of the development of consumption as a multi-disciplinary field and will provide an invaluable foundation for further research.

Game theory is rapidly becoming one of the cornerstones of the social sciences. The articles gathered here chart the intellectual history of game theory from its place in the Enlightenment tradition to issues of current debate.

In this six volume set of readings on Development key topics include: the transformation of peasant economies, agribusiness, rural-urban relations, markets, industrialisation, workers, trade, aid and structural adjustment.

Brings together some of the best and influential foundational research on: theories of migration; patterns of migration; the politics of migration; and, the dynamics of migration.

Brings together the important research on how social relations are embodied in artistic and aesthetic products and processes, and how these in turn can affect social life and societal organization. This title highlights how social scientists are increasingly developing sophisticated ways of understanding artistic and aesthetic issues.

Sustainable tourism is a vibrant and dynamic field of study and research. This title includes a range of social-science journals which have published material about sustainable tourism. It also brings together the key studies and journal articles that have shaped serious thought about sustainable tourism.

The eleven countries that make up the Southeast Asian region provide a rich and diverse context in which to view the development process and experience. The region spans different cultural contexts, colonial experiences, and economic experiments, and is home to some of the world's most successful developing economies.