Rowman & Littlefield
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.
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.
Imprints
- AltaMira Press (acquired 1999 from SAGE Publications)
- Bernan Press (acquired 2008)
- Cowley Publications (acquired 2007 from the Society of St. John the Evangelist.[1])
- Government Institutes (acquired 2004)
- Ivan R. Dee, Publisher (acquired 1998)
- Jason Aronson (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 Press (acquired 1999)
- Madison Books (founded 1985 by UPA)
- M. Evans (acquired 2005)
- Roberts Rinehart (acquired 2000)
- Sheed & Ward (founded in the 1920s in London by Charles Sheed and his wife, Masie Ward, both prominent in the Catholic Action movement; acquired 2002 from the Priests of the Sacred Heart)
- SR Books (acquired 2004 from Scholarly Resources, Inc., of Wilmington, Delaware)
- Hamilton Books (founded 2003)
- University Press of America (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)
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