Independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University
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.
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
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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.
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Beginning as a small, for-profit printer, Princeton University Press was reincorporated as a nonprofit in 1910.
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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.
Pulitzers and other major awards
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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
.
Papers projects
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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historical documents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."
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Bollingen Series
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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.
Other series
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Sciences
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- Annals of Mathematics Studies
(
Alice Chang
,
Phillip A. Griffiths
,
Assaf Naor
, editors;
Lillian Pierce
, associate editor)
- Princeton Series in Applied Mathematics
(
Ingrid Daubechies
,
Weinan E
,
Jan Karel Lenstra
,
Endre Suli
, editors)
- Princeton Series in Astrophysics
(David N. Spergel, editor)
- Princeton Series in Complexity
(
Simon A. Levin
and
Steven H. Strogatz
, editors)
- Princeton Series in Evolutionary Biology
(H. Allen Orr, editor)
- Princeton Series in International Economics
(
Gene M. Grossman
, editor)
- Princeton Science Library
Humanities
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- Princeton Modern Greek Studies
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Selected titles
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See also
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References
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- ^
North America & International Ordering Information
- ^
"Princeton University Press, Erected Through the Generousity [sic] of Charles Scribners, a New and Unique Adjunct to the University"
(PDF)
.
The New York Times
. May 19, 1912.
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Letich, Alexander (1978).
A Princeton Companion
. Princeton University Press. Archived from
the original
on October 19, 2017
. Retrieved
July 16,
2015
.
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A History of Princeton University Press
(2002)
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Axtell, James (2006).
The Making of Princeton University: From Woodrow Wilson to the Present
. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
ISBN
0-691-12686-0
.
- ^
"The New Princeton University Press"
.
Publishers Weekly
.
79
(22). New York: 2233?2234. June 3, 1911
. Retrieved
July 16,
2017
.
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The Pulitzer Prizes: 1957 Winners
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The Pulitzer Prizes: 1958 Winners
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The Pulitzer Prizes: 1961 Winners
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The Pulitzer Prizes: 1963 Winners
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The Pulitzer Prizes: 1965 Winners
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The Pulitzer Prizes: 1990 Winners
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Cooper, John Milton (2011).
Woodrow Wilson: A Biography
. Random House. p. 736.
ISBN
978-0-307-27790-9
. Retrieved
July 28,
2012
.
- ^
Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies ? Publications
Further reading
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- 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.
ISBN
978-0-691-12292-2
.
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