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Predecessor | Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group |
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Founded | 1949 |
Founder | Walter Rowman and Arthur W. Littlefield |
Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | Lanham, Maryland, U.S. |
Distribution | Simon & Schuster Distribution Services (US) NBN International (UK) |
Imprints | Many |
Official website | globepequot |
The Globe Pequot Publishing Group (formerly Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group) is an American independent book publishing company 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 distributing company National Book Network based in Lanham, Maryland.
The current company took shape when the University Press of America acquired Rowman & Littlefield in 1988 and took the Rowman & Littlefield name for the holding company. [1] [2]
Since 2013, there has also been an affiliated company based in London called Rowman & Littlefield International. It is editorially independent and publishes only academic books in Philosophy, Politics & International Relations and Cultural Studies.
The company sponsors the Rowman & Littlefield Award in Innovative Teaching, the only national teaching award in political science given in the United States. It is awarded annually by the American Political Science Association for people whose innovations have advanced political science pedagogy. [3]
On May 29, 2024, Rowman & Littlefield sold its academic publishing business to Bloomsbury Publishing (with the exception of most of Globe Pequot, the Rowman & Littlefield trade publishing arm, Sundance Newbridge, the National Book Network, or the company's trade distribution business). [4] [5] Rowman & Littlefield name and trademark were included in the sale, the holding company subsequently changed its name to The Globe Pequot Publishing Group, taking name from one of its imprint. [6]
The Globe Pequot Publishing Group later sold Sundance Newbridge to Lerner Publishing in September 2024. [7] The company announced that National Book Network will be closed down, with distribution of titles moved to Simon & Schuster Distribution Services in the second half of 2025. [8]
Imprints formerly published by Rowman & Littlefield include: