Transaction Publishers was a
New Jersey
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-based
publishing house that specialized in
social science
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books and journals. It was located on the
Livingston Campus of Rutgers University.
Transaction was sold to
Taylor & Francis
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in 2016 and merged with its
Routledge
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imprint.
Overview
As of February 1, 2017, Transaction Publishers became a part of Routledge, of the Taylor & Francis Group.
Transaction was an academic publisher of the
social sciences
Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of society, societies and the Social relation, relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the o ...
. It was founded by
Irving Louis Horowitz, who served as Transaction's chairman of the board and editorial director until his death in 2012.
Transaction began on July 1, 1962, as part of a multiplex grant sponsored by the
Ford Foundation at
Washington University in St. Louis. From beginnings as a social science magazine, ''Transaction: Social Science and Modern Society'' (later ''Society''), Transaction Publishers evolved into a full-fledged publisher of books (Transaction Books), journals (Transaction Periodicals Consortium), and eBooks.
In 1969, Transaction relocated to the newly formed Livingston College, on the Livingston campus of Rutgers University in
Piscataway, New Jersey
Piscataway () is a township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. It is a suburb of the New York metropolitan area, in the Raritan Valley. At the 2010 United States Census, the population was 56,044, an increase of 5,562 (+11.0%) fr ...
. Many editors, authors, and advisors are drawn from the faculty. Close to 200 faculty members have been authors and editors of Transaction books.
AldineTransaction was an imprint of Transaction Publishers. Formerly a division of
Walter de Gruyter, Inc., Aldine Publishing Co. was acquired by Transaction in July 2004, and the books were then published under the imprint AldineTransaction. AldineTransaction published classic books in the fields of sociology, anthropology, economics, sociobiology, physical anthropology, and public policy. It acquired book lists from Precedent Publishers in 2009 and the Rutgers
Center for Urban Policy Research (CUPR) in 2011.
Transaction published more than 6,000 titles.
Transaction once published academic journals, including its flagship journal, ''
Society
A society is a Social group, group of individuals involved in persistent Social relation, social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same Politics, political authority an ...
''; however, Transaction sold its journal publishing program to
Springer Science+Business Media in 2007.
In 2010,
Penn State University
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announced the "Irving Louis Horowitz–Transaction Publishers Archives, 1939-2009" open for public research at Penn State's Historical Collections and Labor Archives (HCLA) of The Eberly Family Special Collections Library, University Libraries.
The archive documents the expansion of social science research over the past half century.
References
External links
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Irving Louis Horowitz-Transaction Publishers Archives, 1939-2009online searchable archive at Penn State
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