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Rowman & Littlefield

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an American independent academic publishing company founded in 1949. Under several imprints, the company offers scholarly books for the academic market, as well as trade books. The company also owns the book distributing company National Book Network based in Lanham, Maryland.

Founded

1949 (1949)

Walter Rowman and Arthur W. Littlefield

United States

National Book Network (US)
NBN International (UK)

Many

History[edit]

The current company took shape when the University Press of America acquired Rowman & Littlefield in 1988 and took the Rowman & Littlefield name for the parent company.[1][2]


Since 2013, there has also been an affiliated company based in London called Rowman & Littlefield International. It is editorially independent and publishes only academic books in Philosophy, Politics & International Relations and Cultural Studies.


The company sponsors the Rowman & Littlefield Award in Innovative Teaching, the only national teaching award in political science given in the United States. It is awarded annually by the American Political Science Association for people whose innovations have advanced political science pedagogy.[3]

Alban (acquired 2014 from the )[4]

Alban Institute

AltaMira Press (acquired 1999 from )

SAGE Publications

Amadeus Books (acquired 2018 from [5])

Hal Leonard

Applause Theatre & Cinema Books (acquired 2018 from [5])

Hal Leonard

Ardsley House Publishers, Inc.

[6]

Backbeat Books (acquired 2018 from [5])

Hal Leonard

Bernan Press (acquired 2008)

Bonus Books

Cowley Publications (acquired 2007 from the .[7])

Society of St. John the Evangelist

General Hall (acquired 2000)

[8]

Globe Pequot Press

[9]

Government Institutes (acquired 2004)

Hal Leonard Books (acquired 2018 from [5])

Hal Leonard

Hamilton Books (founded 2003)

Ivan R. Dee (acquired 1998)

(acquired 2003)

Jason Aronson

Lexington Books (acquired 1998)

Limelight Editions (acquired 2018 from [5])

Hal Leonard

Madison House Publishers (acquired 2000)

[8]

Newbridge Educational Publishing (acquired 2008 from Haights Cross)

(acquired 2019)

Prometheus Books

Rowman & Littlefield Education or R&L Education (formerly Technomic Books, acquired 1999)

Scarecrow Press (acquired 1995 by UPA from ); founded by Ralph R. Shaw[6][23]

Grolier

(founded in the 1920s in London by Frank Sheed and his wife, Maisie Ward, both prominent in the Catholic Action movement; acquired 2002 from the Priests of the Sacred Heart)[24]

Sheed & Ward

SR Books (acquired 2004 from Scholarly Resources, Inc., of Wilmington, Delaware)

Sundance Publishing (acquired 2008 from Haights Cross)

(founded 1975)

University Press of America

The World Today Series (acquired 2011 from Stryker-Post Publications)

Bucknell University Press

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Lehigh University Press

University of Delaware Press

Scholarly Press

Smithsonian Institution

C&T Publishing

List of book distributors

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Indiana University Press

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