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Routledge is a publisher of non-fiction academic books. It was acquired in 1997 by, and is thus now an
imprint of the
Taylor & Francis Group, which is a sub-division of
Informa PLC, a company based in the United Kingdom with offices worldwide. A majority of Routledge's books are based in the
humanities and
social sciences and all are academic. In 2005 the international affairs titles of another of the Taylor and Francis Group's imprints, Europa Publications, were added to the Routledge catalogue, including the
Europa World Year Book,
International Who's Who, the Regional Surveys Series, the
Europa World of Learning and Europa World online.
History
As a name in Camden publishing, it originates in 1836, when
George Routledge (1812-1888) founded a firm with W. H. Warne.
George Routledge and Co. was set up in 1851 with Frederick Warne, becoming
Routledge, Warne & Routledge in 1858, and
George Routledge and Sons when Warne left. After refinancing in 1902, the company took over J. C. Nimmo Ltd in 1903. In 1912 an amalgamation with Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. created
Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd., a major London publishing house. Taylor & Francis bought Routledge in 1998.
People
The famous English publisher
Frederic Warburg was a commissioning editor at Routledge in the early twentieth century.
Encyclopedia
Taylor and Francis closed down the Routledge encyclopedia division as unprofitable in 2006. Some of its publications were:
- Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy by Edward Craig (1998) in 10 volumes, but now online
- Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy
- Encyclopedia of Paleontology by Ronald Singer (1987)
External links
Bibliography
- Warburg, Fredric An Occupation for Gentlemen (Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 1960)
imprint is a brand name under which a work is published. One single publishing company may have multiple imprints; the different imprints are used by the publisher to market the work to different demographic consumer segments.
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Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in the United Kingdom which publishes books and academic journals. In 2004 it merged with Informa to create a new company called T&F Informa (since simplified back to Informa).
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Informa plc (LSE: INF ) is a United Kingdom based publisher and conference company, with offices in more than 40 countries and more than 7,000 employees. It operates more than 10,000 conferences annually, and publishes newsletters, academic journals, commercial databases, and
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The humanities are those academic disciplines which study the human condition using methods that are largely analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural and social sciences.
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The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study human aspects of the world. They diverge from the arts and humanities in that the social sciences tend to emphasize the use of the scientific method in the study of humanity, including quantitative and qualitative
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George Routledge (born September 23, 1812 in Brampton, Cumberland; died December 13, 1888 in London) was a British publisher.
He gained his earliest experience of business with a bookseller at Carlisle.
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Fredric John Warburg
Born: November 27 1898(1898--)
London, England
Died: May 25 1981 (aged 84)
London, England
Occupation: Publisher; author
Fredric John Warburg
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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a major encyclopedia of philosophy edited by Edward Craig that was first published by Routledge in 1998 (ISBN 978-0415073103). Originally published in both 10 volumes of print and as a CD-ROM, in 2002 it was made available online on a
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