The Globe Pequot Publishing Group (formerly Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group) is an American

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founded in 1949. Under several imprints, the company offers various regional and interest books in the trade books publishing. The company also owns the book distributor National Book Network based in

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History

The current company took shape when the

University Press of America University Press of America (''UPA'') is the former name of an American Academic publishing, academic publishing company based in Lanham, Maryland, which became the parent company of Rowman & Littlefield publishing house, then was later re-intr ...

acquired Rowman & Littlefield in 1988 and took the Rowman & Littlefield name for the holding company. Since 2013, there has also been an affiliated company based in

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called Rowman & Littlefield International. It is editorially independent and publishes only academic books in

Philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

Politics Politics () is the set of activities that are associated with decision-making, making decisions in social group, groups, or other forms of power (social and political), power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of Social sta ...

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and

Cultural Studies Cultural studies is an academic field that explores the dynamics of contemporary culture (including the politics of popular culture) and its social and historical foundations. Cultural studies researchers investigate how cultural practices rel ...

. Rowman & Littlefield acquired

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in 2014. The company sponsors the Rowman & Littlefield Award in Innovative Teaching, the only national teaching award in

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given in the

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. It is awarded annually by the

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for people whose innovations have advanced

pedagogy Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political, and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken ...

. On May 29, 2024, Rowman & Littlefield sold its academic and professional publishing business to

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. The sale excluded most of trade publishing business under Globe Pequot (but included Applause Books and Backbeat Books), school publishing business Sundance Newbridge, and book distributor National Book Network. Rowman & Littlefield name and trademark were included in the sale, the holding company subsequently changed its name to The Globe Pequot Publishing Group, took name from one of its trade publishing imprint which the company retained. The Globe Pequot Publishing Group later sold Sundance Newbridge to Lerner Publishing in September 2024. The company announced that National Book Network will be closed down, with distribution of titles moved to

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Distribution Services in the second half of 2025.

Imprints

Current imprints

*Alban (acquired 2014 from the

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) *AltaMira Press (acquired 1999 from

SAGE Publications Sage Publishing, formerly SAGE Publications, is an American independent academic publishing company, founded in 1965 in New York City by Sara Miller McCune and now based in the Newbury Park neighborhood of Thousand Oaks, California. Sage ...

) *Amadeus Books (acquired 2018 from

Hal Leonard Hal Leonard LLC (formerly Hal Leonard Corporation) is an American music publishing and distribution company founded in Winona, Minnesota, by Harold "Hal" Edstrom, his brother, Everett "Leonard" Edstrom, and fellow musician Roger Busdicker. Curre ...

) *Applause Theatre & Cinema Books (acquired 2018 from

) * Ardsley House Publishers, Inc. *Bernan Press (acquired 2008) *

Bonus Books Bonus Books is an American book publisher based in Los Angeles, California. The company publishes approximately 30 books per year, primarily "how to" books on subjects such as casino gambling, sports biographies, broadcasting and journalism. Freq ...

*Cowley Publications (acquired 2007 from the Society of St. John the Evangelist.) *General Hall (acquired 2000) *

(acquired 2014 from

Morris Communications Morris Communications, headquartered in Augusta, Georgia, is a privately held media company with diversified holdings that include magazine publishing, outdoor advertising, book publishing and distribution, visitor publications, and online serv ...

) * Down East Books (acquired by Rowman & Littlefield in 2013) *Falcon Guides *

Gooseberry Patch Gooseberry Patch is an American company that publishes cookbooks. It was founded in 1984 by Vickie Hutchins and Jo Ann Martin, who were neighbors in Delaware, Ohio, as a mail-order recipe catalog "selling old-fashioned, country-style products." ...

(acquired 2015) *Lyons Press *Muddy Boots (launched 2016) *

Pineapple Press Pineapple Press is a niche publisher in Florida. Its catalogue includes non-fiction titles such as "Baseball in Florida" and "Florida's Birds" (a reference book with artwork by Karl Karalus) as well as compilations such as "Cracker literature", ...

(acquired 2018) *

Stackpole Books Stackpole Books is a trade publishing company in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. It was founded by Edward J. Stackpole in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1930 and was moved to its current headquarters in 1993. Stackpole publishes nonfiction books in t ...

(acquired 2015) *Taylor Trade (acquired by Rowman & Littlefield in 2001) *Bridge Works (acquired 2000) *Cooper Square Press (founded 1961 by Rowman & Littlefield, acquired 1988 by UPA) *Northland Publishing backlist (acquired in 2007) *including Rising Moon and Luna Rising imprints *Northword Books for Young Readers (acquired 2007) *Two-Can Publishing (acquired 2007) * The Derrydale Press (acquired 1999) *Madison Books (founded 1985 by UPA) *M. Evans (acquired 2005) *Roberts Rinehart (acquired 2000) *TwoDot Books *Government Institutes (acquired 2004) *Hal Leonard Books (acquired 2018 from

) *Hamilton Books (founded 2003) *Ivan R. Dee (acquired 1998) *

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(acquired 2003) *Limelight Editions (acquired 2018 from

) *Madison House Publishers (acquired 2000) *Newbridge Educational Publishing (acquired 2008 from Haights Cross) *

Prometheus Books Prometheus Books is a publishing company founded in August 1969 by the philosopher Paul Kurtz (who was also the founder of the Council for Secular Humanism, Center for Inquiry, and co-founder of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry). The publ ...

(acquired 2019) *Rowman & Littlefield Education or R&L Education (formerly Technomic Books, acquired 1999) *Rowman & Littlefield (acquired 1988 by UPA) **Philip Turner Books (founded 2009) * Scarecrow Press (acquired 1995 by UPA from

Grolier Grolier is one of the largest American publishers of general encyclopedias, including '' The Book of Knowledge'' (1910), '' The New Book of Knowledge'' (1966), ''The New Book of Popular Science'' (1972), '' Encyclopedia Americana'' (1945), '' Ac ...

) * Sheed & Ward (founded in the 1920s in

by Frank Sheed and his wife, Maisie Ward, both prominent in the

Catholic Action Catholic Action is a movement of Catholic laity, lay people within the Catholic Church which advocates for increased Catholic influence on society. Catholic Action groups were especially active in the nineteenth century in historically Catholic cou ...

movement; acquired 2002 from the Priests of the Sacred Heart) *SR Books (acquired 2004 from Scholarly Resources, Inc., of Wilmington, Delaware) *Sundance Publishing (acquired 2008 from Haights Cross) *

(founded 1975) *The World Today Series (acquired 2011 from Stryker-Post Publications)

Former imprints

Imprints formerly published by Rowman & Littlefield include: * Lexington Books (Sold to Bloomsbury Publishing in 2024) * Applause Books (Sold to Bloomsbury Publishing in 2024) * Backbeat Books (Sold to Bloomsbury Publishing in 2024)

Distribution

Bucknell University Press Bucknell University Press is a university press associated with Bucknell University, located in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. The press was founded in 1968 and is currently a member of the Association of University Presses, to which it was admitted in ...

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (FDU Press) is a publishing house under the operation and oversight of Fairleigh Dickinson University, the largest private university in New Jersey. History FDU Press was established in 1967 by the university ...

Lehigh University Press Lehigh University Press is the publishing house of Lehigh University. It is primarily known for publishing scholarly works related to eighteenth-century studies, local history, and science and technology in society. History Founded in 1985, Lehi ...

University of Delaware Press The University of Delaware Press (UDP) is a publishing house and a department of the University of Delaware in the United States, whose main campus is at Newark, Delaware, where the University Press is also based. Established in the early 1970s ...

Smithsonian Institution The Smithsonian Institution ( ), or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, Education center, education and Research institute, research centers, created by the Federal government of the United States, U.S. government "for the increase a ...

Scholarly Press * C&T Publishing

References

External links

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