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Routledge () is a British multinational publisher. It was founded in 1836 by George Routledge, and specialises in providing academic books, journals, & online resources in the fields of humanities and social science. The company publishes 1,800 journals & 2,000 new books each year and their backlist encompasses over 35,000 titles.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.routledge.com/info/about_us/ )〕 In 1998, Routledge became a subdivision and imprint of its former rival, Taylor & Francis Group, as a result of a £90 million acquisition deal from Cinven, a venture capital group which had purchased it two years previously for £25 million.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/books-merger-yields-windfall-of-pounds-6m-1182898.html )〕 ==History== The firm originated in 1836, when Camden bookseller George Routledge published an unsuccessful guidebook, ''The Beauties of Gilsand'' with his brother-in-law W H (William Henry) Warne as assistant. In 1848 the pair entered the booming market for selling inexpensive imprints of works of fiction to rail travellers, in the style of the German Tauchnitz family, which became known as the "Railway Library".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bl.uk/collections/early/victorian/yellow/yellow3.html )〕 The venture was a success which was mainly due to the mass hysteria in the 1840s due to Railway Mania and it eventually led to Routledge, along with W H Warne's Brother Frederick Warne, to found the company, George Routledge & Co. in 1851.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://archives.ucl.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=RefNo==%27ROUTLEDGE%27&dsqDb=Catalog )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Routledge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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