Rowman & Littlefield
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an independent publishing house founded in 1949. Under several imprints, the company offers scholarly books and journals for the academic
market, as well as trade books. The company also owns a book distributor, National Book Network. They are based in Lanham, Maryland
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The current company took shape when University Press of America
acquired Rowman & Littlefield in 1988 and took the Rowman & Littlefield name for the parent company.
The World Today Series (acquired 2011 from Stryker-Post Publications)
Academia
Academia is the community of students and scholars engaged in higher education and research.-Etymology:The word comes from the akademeia in ancient Greece. Outside the city walls of Athens, the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning...
market, as well as trade books. The company also owns a book distributor, National Book Network. They are based in Lanham, Maryland
Lanham, Maryland
Lanham is an unincorporated community in Prince George's County in the State of Maryland in the United States of America. Because it is not formally incorporated, it has no official boundaries, but the United States Census Bureau has defined a census-designated place consisting of Lanham and the...
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The current company took shape when University Press of America
University Press of America
University Press of America is an academic book publisher based in the United States. Part of the independent Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, it was founded in 1975 and boasts of having published "more than 10,000 academic, scholarly, and biographical titles in many disciplines"...
acquired Rowman & Littlefield in 1988 and took the Rowman & Littlefield name for the parent company.
Imprints
- AltaMira Press (acquired 1999 from SAGE PublicationsSAGE PublicationsSAGE is an independent academic publisher of books, journals, and electronic products in the humanities and social sciences and the scientific, technical, and medical fields. SAGE was founded in 1965 by George McCune and Sara Miller McCune. The company is headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California,...
) - Bernan Press (acquired 2008)
- Cowley Publications (acquired 2007 from the Society of St. John the EvangelistSociety of St. John the EvangelistThe Society of St John the Evangelist is an Anglican religious order for men. The members live under a rule of life and, at profession, make monastic vows of poverty, celibacy and obedience. The SSJE was founded in 1866 at Cowley, Oxford, England, by the Father Richard Meux Benson, a priest in the...
.) - Government Institutes (acquired 2004)
- Ivan R. Dee, Publisher (acquired 1998)
- Jason AronsonJason AronsonJason Aronson is an American publisher of books in the field of psychotherapy. Topics dealt with in these books include child therapy, family therapy, couple therapy, object relations therapy, play therapy, depression, eating disorders, personality disorders, substance abuse, sexual abuse, stress,...
(acquired 2003) - Lexington Books (acquired 1998)
- Rowman & Littlefield Education (formerly Technomic Books, acquired 1999)
- Rowman & Littlefield (acquired 1988 by UPA)
- Philip Turner Books (founded 2009)
- Scarecrow Press (acquired 1995)
- Taylor Trade (acquired 2001)
- Bridge Works (acquired 2000)
- Cooper Square Press (founded 1961 by Rowman & Littlefield, acquired 1988 by UPA)
- The Derrydale PressThe Derrydale PressThe Derrydale Press is an American book publishing company founded in 1927 with headquarters on Park Ave. in Manhattan, New York. It is the creation of Princeton University graduate Eugene V. Connett III...
(acquired 1999) - Madison Books (founded 1985 by UPA)
- M. Evans (acquired 2005)
- Roberts Rinehart (acquired 2000)
- Sheed & Ward (acquired 2002 from the Priests of the Sacred HeartPriests of the Sacred HeartThe Priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus constitute a Roman Catholic religious order of priests, founded by Leon Dehon in 1878.The order runs the Sacred Heart School of Theology in Hales Corners, Wisconsin....
) - SR Books (acquired 2004 from Scholarly Resources, Inc., of Wilmington, Delaware)
- Hamilton Books (founded 2003)
- University Press of AmericaUniversity Press of AmericaUniversity Press of America is an academic book publisher based in the United States. Part of the independent Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, it was founded in 1975 and boasts of having published "more than 10,000 academic, scholarly, and biographical titles in many disciplines"...
(founded 1975) - Sundance Publishing (acquired 2008 from Haights Cross)
- Newbridge Educational Publishing (acquired 2008 from Haights Cross)
The World Today Series (acquired 2011 from Stryker-Post Publications)
Distribution
- Bucknell University PressBucknell University PressBucknell University Press was founded in 1968 as part of a consortium operated by Associated University Presses and currently partnered with Rowman & Littlefield. Since then it has published more than 1000 titles in the humanities and social and biological sciences...
- Fairleigh Dickinson University PressFairleigh Dickinson University PressFairleigh Dickinson University Press is a publishing house under the operation and oversight of Fairleigh Dickinson University, the largest private university in New Jersey, USA. FDU Press was established in 1967 by the university's founder Peter Sammartino, in cooperation with the publisher...
- Lehigh University PressLehigh University PressLehigh University Press is the publishing house of Lehigh University. Lehigh's university press was a member of the Associated University Presses consortium; other members included Bucknell University Press, University of Delaware Press, Susquehanna University Press and Fairleigh Dickinson...
- University of Delaware PressUniversity of Delaware PressThe University of Delaware Press is a publishing house and a department of the University of Delaware in the United States, whose main campus is at Newark, Delaware, where the University Press is also based....
- Smithsonian InstitutionSmithsonian InstitutionThe Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...
Scholarly Press