- Routledge
Routledge is a publisher of non-fiction academic books and journals. It was acquired in 1997 by, and is thus now an
imprint of, theTaylor & Francis Group, which is a sub-division ofInforma PLC , a company based in the United Kingdom with offices worldwide. A majority of Routledge's books are based in thehumanities andsocial 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 withFrederick Warne , becoming Routledge, Warne & Routledge in 1858, and George Routledge and Sons when Warne left. After refinancing in 1902, the company took overJ. C. Nimmo Ltd in 1903. In 1912 an amalgamation withKegan 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 in 2006. Some of its publications were:
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy by Edward Craig (1998) in 10 volumes, but now online
*Encyclopedia of Ethics byLawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker (2002) in three volumes.
*Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy
*Encyclopedia of Paleontology by Ronald Singer (1987)Machzor
Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd for many years published the series of Jewish Festival prayer books "Service of the Synagogue" sanctioned by Chief Rabbi
Hermann Adler for use in British synagogues. The series are generally known amongst Jews of the British Commonwealth as "the RoutledgeMachzor ".External links
* [http://www.routledge.com/ Routledge]
* [http://www.psypress.com/ Routledge- Psychology Press]
* [http://www.routledgelaw.com/ Routledge-Cavendish]
* [http://www.routledgementalhealth.com/ Routledge - Mental health imprint]
* [http://www.psychoanalysisarena.com/ Routledge - Psychoanalysis arena]
* [http://www.europaworld.com/ Routledge - Europa World]
* [http://www.worldwhoswho.com/ Routledge - The International Who's Who]
* [http://www.worldoflearning.com/ Routledge - The Europa World of Learning]
* [http://www.everymansprey.com/ Routledge - History of the Routledges and Their Origins]Bibliography
* Warburg, Fredric "An Occupation for Gentlemen" (Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 1960)
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