Continuum International Publishing Group was an

academic publisher Academic publishing is the subfield of publishing which distributes academic research and scholarship. Most academic work is published in academic journal articles, books or theses. The part of academic written output that is not formally publi ...

of books with editorial offices in London and New York City. It was purchased by Nova Capital Management in 2005. In July 2011, it was taken over by

Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction. Bloomsbury's head office is located on Bedford Square in Bloomsbury, an area of the London Borough of Camden. It has a US publishing office located in ...

. , all new Continuum titles are published under the Bloomsbury name (under the imprint Bloomsbury Academic).

History

Continuum International was created in 1999 with the merger of the Cassell academic and religious lists (including Geoffrey Chapman, Mansell, Mowbray, Pinter, and Leicester University Press imprints) and the Continuum Publishing Company, founded in New York in 1980. The academic publishing programme was focused on the

humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture, including Philosophy, certain fundamental questions asked by humans. During the Renaissance, the term "humanities" referred to the study of classical literature a ...

, especially the fields of philosophy, film and music, literature, education,

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

, theology, and

biblical studies Biblical studies is the academic application of a set of diverse disciplines to the study of the Bible, with ''Bible'' referring to the books of the canonical Hebrew Bible in mainstream Jewish usage and the Christian Bible including the can ...

. Continuum published Paulo Freire's seminal '' Pedagogy of the Oppressed'' and music criticism series '' 33⅓''. Continuum acquired Athlone Press, which was founded in 1948 as the

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a collegiate university, federal Public university, public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The ...

publishing house and sold to the Bemrose Corporation in 1979. In 2003, Continuum acquired the London-based Hambledon & London ('' Sunday Times'' Small Publisher of the Year 2001–02), a publisher of trade history for the general reader.

Imprints

* Burns & Oates * Hambledon Continuum – history publishing imprint * T&T Clark * Thoemmes Press

References

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* {{Authority control Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom Book publishing companies based in New York City Publishing companies established in 1999 1999 establishments in New York (state)