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Routledge is a publisher of non-fiction academic books and journals. It was acquired in 1997 by, and is thus now an imprint
Imprint

In the publishing industry, an imprint can refer to two different things:* It can mean a brand name under which a work is published. One single publishing company may have multiple imprints; the different imprints are used by the publisher to marketing the work to different demographic consumer market segment....
 of, the Taylor & Francis Group, which is a sub-division of Informa PLC
Informa plc

Informa plc is a United Kingdom based publisher and conference company, with offices in more than 40 countries and more than 7,500 employees. Informa owns numerous brands including Routledge, Lloyd's List, Taylor & Francis, CRC Press, ESI International, and Datamonitor....
, a company based in the United Kingdom with offices worldwide. A majority of Routledge's books are based in the humanities
Humanities

The humanities are academic disciplines which study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural science and social sciences....
 and social sciences
Social sciences

The social sciences comprise academic disciplines concerned with the study of the social life of human groups and individuals including anthropology, communication studies, economics, human geography, history, political science, psychology and sociology....
 and all are academic.

name in Camden publishing, it originates in 1836, when George Routledge
George Routledge

George Routledge was a Kingdom of Great Britain publisher and father of Sir Phillip Chester - Routledge.He gained his earliest experience of business with a bookseller at Carlisle....
 (1812-1888) founded a firm with W.






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Routledge is a publisher of non-fiction academic books and journals. It was acquired in 1997 by, and is thus now an imprint
Imprint

In the publishing industry, an imprint can refer to two different things:* It can mean a brand name under which a work is published. One single publishing company may have multiple imprints; the different imprints are used by the publisher to marketing the work to different demographic consumer market segment....
 of, the Taylor & Francis Group, which is a sub-division of Informa PLC
Informa plc

Informa plc is a United Kingdom based publisher and conference company, with offices in more than 40 countries and more than 7,500 employees. Informa owns numerous brands including Routledge, Lloyd's List, Taylor & Francis, CRC Press, ESI International, and Datamonitor....
, a company based in the United Kingdom with offices worldwide. A majority of Routledge's books are based in the humanities
Humanities

The humanities are academic disciplines which study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural science and social sciences....
 and social sciences
Social sciences

The social sciences comprise academic disciplines concerned with the study of the social life of human groups and individuals including anthropology, communication studies, economics, human geography, history, political science, psychology and sociology....
 and all are academic.

History

As a name in Camden publishing, it originates in 1836, when George Routledge
George Routledge

George Routledge was a Kingdom of Great Britain publisher and father of Sir Phillip Chester - Routledge.He gained his earliest experience of business with a bookseller at Carlisle....
 (1812-1888) founded a firm with W. H. Warne. George Routledge and Co. was set up in 1851 with Frederick Warne, becoming Routledge, Warne & Routledge in 1858, and George Routledge and Sons when Warne left. After refinancing in 1902, the company took over J. C. Nimmo Ltd in 1903. In 1912 an amalgamation with Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. created Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd., a major London publishing house. Taylor & Francis bought Routledge in 1998.

People

The famous English publisher Frederic Warburg was a commissioning editor at Routledge in the early twentieth century.

Encyclopedia

Taylor and Francis closed down the Routledge encyclopedia division in 2006. Some of its publications were:

  • Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
    Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy is an encyclopedia of philosophy edited by Edward Craig that was first published by Routledge in 1998 ....
     by Edward Craig (1998) in 10 volumes, but now online
  • Encyclopedia of Ethics
    Encyclopedia of Ethics

    The Encyclopedia of Ethics is a scholarly work with the original focus on ethical theory. It is published by Routledge. It includes "biographical articles, entries on areas and issues related to ethics, treatment of major traditions in religious ethics, coverage of applied ethical issues of importance to theory, survey articles on the history...
     by Lawrence C. Becker
    Lawrence C. Becker

    Lawrence C. Becker is an American philosopher working mainly in the areas of ethics and social, political, and legal philosophy. He is the author of books and journal articles on stoicism, reciprocity, property rights, justice, and metaethics....
     and Charlotte B. Becker (2002) in three volumes.
  • Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy
  • Encyclopedia of Paleontology by Ronald Singer (1987)


Machzor

Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd for many years published the series of Jewish Festival prayer books "Service of the Synagogue" sanctioned by Chief Rabbi Hermann Adler
Hermann Adler

Rabbi Dr. Hermann Adler Royal Victorian Order was the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire from 1891 to 1911. The son of Nathan Marcus Adler, the 1911 Encyclop?dia Britannica writes that he "raised the position [of Chief Rabbi] to one of much dignity and importance."...
 for use in British synagogues. The series are generally known amongst Jews of the British Commonwealth as "the Routledge Machzor".

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Bibliography

  • Warburg, Fredric An Occupation for Gentlemen (Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 1960)