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, which became the parent company of

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publishing house, then was later re-introduced as the name of an imprint of "itself" after changing the name of the parent company. Originally founded in 1975, as a standalone

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, University Press of America purchased the

publishing house in 1987. In 1998, University Press of America adopted the Rowman & Littlefield name as its own, while introducing the University Press of America name as an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, specializing in the publication of scholarly works. In 2024

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acquired

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