Rowman & Littlefield

Founded	1949 ; 75 years ago  ( 1949 )
Founder	Walter Rowman and Arthur W. Littlefield
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	Lanham, Maryland , U.S.
Distribution	National Book Network (US) NBN International (UK)
Imprints	Many
Official website	rowman .com

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 .

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]

Imprints [ edit ]

• Alban (acquired 2014 from the Alban Institute ) ^[4]
• AltaMira Press (acquired 1999 from SAGE Publications )
• Amadeus Books (acquired 2018 from Hal Leonard ^[5] )
• Applause Theatre & Cinema Books (acquired 2018 from Hal Leonard ^[5] )
• Ardsley House Publishers, Inc. ^[6]
• Backbeat Books (acquired 2018 from Hal Leonard ^[5] )
• Bernan Press (acquired 2008)
• Bonus Books
• Cowley Publications (acquired 2007 from the Society of St. John the Evangelist . ^[7] )
• General Hall (acquired 2000) ^[8]
• Globe Pequot Press (acquired 2014 from Morris Communications ) ^[9]
  • Down East Books (acquired by Rowman & Littlefield in 2013) ^[10]
  • Falcon Guides
  • Gooseberry Patch (acquired 2015) ^[11]
  • Lyons Press
  • Muddy Boots (launched 2016) ^[12]
  • Pineapple Press (acquired 2018) ^[13]
  • Stackpole Books (acquired 2015) ^[14]
  • Taylor Trade (acquired by Rowman & Littlefield in 2001) ^{[15] [16]}
    • Bridge Works (acquired 2000)
    • Cooper Square Press (founded 1961 by Rowman & Littlefield, acquired 1988 by UPA)
      • Northland Publishing backlist (acquired in 2007) ^[17]
        • including Rising Moon and Luna Rising imprints ^[18]
      • Northword Books for Young Readers (acquired 2007)
      • Two-Can Publishing (acquired 2007) ^[19]
    • The Derrydale Press (acquired 1999)
    • Madison Books (founded 1985 by UPA)
    • M. Evans (acquired 2005) ^[20]
    • Roberts Rinehart (acquired 2000) ^{[21] [22]}
  • TwoDot Books
• Government Institutes (acquired 2004)
• Hal Leonard Books (acquired 2018 from Hal Leonard ^[5] )
• Hamilton Books (founded 2003)
• Ivan R. Dee (acquired 1998)
• Jason Aronson (acquired 2003)
• Lexington Books (acquired 1998) ^{[ citation needed ]}
• Limelight Editions (acquired 2018 from Hal Leonard ^[5] )
• Madison House Publishers (acquired 2000) ^[8]
• Newbridge Educational Publishing (acquired 2008 from Haights Cross)
• Prometheus Books (acquired 2019)
• Rowman & Littlefield Education or R&L Education (formerly Technomic Books, acquired 1999)
• Rowman & Littlefield (acquired 1988 by UPA)
  • Philip Turner Books (founded 2009)
• Scarecrow Press (acquired 1995 by UPA from Grolier ); founded by Ralph R. Shaw ^{[6] [23]}
• Sheed & Ward (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]
• SR Books (acquired 2004 from Scholarly Resources, Inc., of Wilmington, Delaware)
• Sundance Publishing (acquired 2008 from Haights Cross)
• University Press of America (founded 1975)
• The World Today Series (acquired 2011 from Stryker-Post Publications)

Distribution [ edit ]

• Bucknell University Press
• Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Lehigh University Press
• University of Delaware Press
• Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
• C&T Publishing

See also [ edit ]

• List of book distributors

References [ edit ]

Further reading [ edit ]

• Slide, Anthony (September 2010). "A publishing phenomenon that begins and ends with Scarecrow Press". Film History . 22 (3). Indiana University Press : 298?308. doi : 10.2979/fil.2010.22.3.298 . S2CID   192112592 .

External links [ edit ]

• Official website