Routledge is a publisher of non-fiction academic books and journals. 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. In the Publishing Industry, an imprint can refer to two different things It can mean a Brand name under which a work is published Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in the United Kingdom which publishes books and academic journals Informa plc ( is a United Kingdom based Publisher and Conference company, with offices in more than 40 countries and more than 7500 employees A majority of Routledge's books are based in the humanities and social sciences and all are academic. The humanities are academic disciplines which study the Human condition, using methods that are primarily Analytic, Critical, or Speculative The social sciences comprise academic disciplines concerned with the study of the social life of human groups and individuals including Anthropology, Communication studies 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.
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History
As a name in Camden publishing, it originates in 1836, when George Routledge (1812-1888) founded a firm with W. George Routledge (September 23 1812 in Brampton, Cumberland – December 13 1888 in London) was a British Publisher and father of 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. Fredric John Warburg ( November 27, 1898 - May 25, 1981) was an English publisher best known for his association with the British author
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
- Encyclopedia of Ethics by Lawrence C. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy is an Encyclopedia of Philosophy edited by Edward Craig that was first published by Routledge in The Encyclopedia of Ethics is a scholarly work with the original focus on ethical theory 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. Dr Hermann Adler CVO ( May 30, 1839 – July 18, 1911) was the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire from 1891 to The series are generally known amongst Jews of the British Commonwealth as "the Routledge Machzor". The mahzor (alternately machzor, plural mahzorim, Hebrew מחזור maxˈzor and) is the prayer book used by Jews
External links
- Routledge
- Routledge- Psychology Press
- Routledge - Mental health imprint
- Routledge - Psychoanalysis arena
- Routledge - Europa World
- Routledge - The International Who's Who
- Routledge - The Europa World of Learning
- Routledge - History of the Routledges and Their Origins
Bibliography
- Warburg, Fredric An Occupation for Gentlemen (Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 1960)
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