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Princeton University Press

Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University. Its mission is to disseminate scholarship within academia and society at large.

Founded

1905 (1905)

Whitney Darrow

Ingram Publisher Services (Americas, Asia, Australia)
John Wiley & Sons (EMEA, India)
United Publishers Services (Japan)[1]

41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey

1911

27 June 1975

The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financial support of Charles Scribner, as a printing press to serve the Princeton community in 1905.[2] Its distinctive building was constructed in 1911 on William Street in Princeton.[3] Its first book was a new 1912 edition of John Witherspoon's Lectures on Moral Philosophy.[4]

History[edit]

Princeton University Press was founded in 1905 by a recent Princeton graduate, Whitney Darrow, with financial support from another Princetonian, Charles Scribner II. Darrow and Scribner purchased the equipment and assumed the operations of two already existing local publishers, that of the Princeton Alumni Weekly and the Princeton Press. The new press printed both local newspapers, university documents, The Daily Princetonian, and later added book publishing to its activities.[5] Beginning as a small, for-profit printer, Princeton University Press was reincorporated as a nonprofit in 1910.[6] Since 1911, the press has been headquartered in a purpose-built gothic-style building designed by Ernest Flagg. The design of press's building, which was named the Scribner Building in 1965, was inspired by the Plantin-Moretus Museum, a printing museum in Antwerp, Belgium. Princeton University Press established a European office, in Woodstock, England, north of Oxford, in 1999, and opened an additional office, in Beijing, in early 2017.

by George F. Kennan (1957)[7]

Russia Leaves the War

Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War by (1958)[8]

Bray Hammond

Between War and Peace by (1961)[9]

Herbert Feis

Washington: Village and Capital by (1963)[10]

Constance McLaughlin Green

by Irwin Unger (1965)[11]

The Greenback Era

Machiavelli in Hell by (1989)[12]

Sebastian de Grazia

Six books from Princeton University Press have won Pulitzer Prizes:


Books from Princeton University Press have also been awarded the Bancroft Prize, the Nautilus Book Award, and the National Book Award.

The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein

The Writings of

Henry D. Thoreau

The Papers of (sixty-nine volumes)

Woodrow Wilson

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson

's Writings

Kierkegaard

Multi-volume historical documents projects undertaken by the press include:


The Papers of Woodrow Wilson has been called "one of the great editorial achievements in all history."[13]

Bollingen Series[edit]

Princeton University Press's Bollingen Series had its beginnings in the Bollingen Foundation, a 1943 project of Paul Mellon's Old Dominion Foundation. From 1945, the foundation had independent status, publishing and providing fellowships and grants in several areas of study, including archaeology, poetry, and psychology. The Bollingen Series was given to the university in 1969.

(Alice Chang, Phillip A. Griffiths, Assaf Naor, editors; Lillian Pierce, associate editor)

Annals of Mathematics Studies

(Ingrid Daubechies, Weinan E, Jan Karel Lenstra, Endre Süli, editors)

Princeton Series in Applied Mathematics

(David N. Spergel, editor)

Princeton Series in Astrophysics

(Simon A. Levin and Steven H. Strogatz, editors)

Princeton Series in Complexity

(H. Allen Orr, editor)

Princeton Series in Evolutionary Biology

(Gene M. Grossman, editor)

Princeton Series in International Economics

Princeton Science Library

by Barbara D. Metcalf (1982)

Islamic Revival in British India

by The Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change (2002)

The Ulama in Contemporary Islam

The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History, by (2010)

Jill Lepore

by Albert Einstein (1922)

The Meaning of Relativity

by Henry DeWolf Smyth (1945)

Atomic Energy for Military Purposes

by George Polya (1945)

How to Solve It

by Karl Popper (1945)

The Open Society and Its Enemies

by Joseph Campbell (1949)

The Hero With a Thousand Faces

The /Baynes translation of the I Ching, Bollingen Series XIX. First copyright 1950, 27th printing 1997.

Wilhelm

by Northrop Frye (1957)

Anatomy of Criticism

by Richard Rorty (1979)

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

by Richard Feynman (1985)

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

by Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz (1963) with a new Introduction by Peter L. Bernstein (2008)

The Great Contraction 1929–1933

Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle by (2004)

Stephen Biddle

List of English-language book publishing companies

List of university presses

Banks, Eric (April 1, 2005). "Book of Lists: Princeton University Press at 100". Artforum International.

A Century in Books: Princeton University Press, 1905–2005. Princeton University Press. 2005.  978-0-691-12292-2.

ISBN

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Official website

Princeton University Press: Albert Einstein Web Page

Princeton University Press: Bollingen Series

Princeton University Press: Annals of Mathematics Studies

Princeton University Press Centenary

Princeton University Press: New in Print