Peter Lang (publisher)

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Peter Lang
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Founded 1970 (1970), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Founder Peter Lang
Country of origin Switzerland
Headquarters location Pieterlen and Bern
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Publication types Books, academic journals, textbooks
Official website peterlang.com

Peter Lang is an academic publisher specializing in the humanities and social sciences. It has its headquarters in Pieterlen and Bern, Switzerland, with offices in Brussels, Frankfurt am Main, New York City, Dublin, Oxford, Vienna, and Warsaw.[4][5]

Peter Lang publishes over 1,800 academic titles annually, both in print and digital formats, with a backlist of over 55,000 books.[6] It has its complete online journals collection available on Ingentaconnect,[5] and distributes its digital textbooks globally through Kortext.[7]

Areas of publication

The company specializes in the following twelve subject areas:[4]

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  • Economics and Management
  • Education
  • English Language and Literatures
  • German Language and Literatures
  • History
  • Law
  • Linguistics
  • Media and Communication
  • Philosophy
  • Politics
  • Romance Languages and Literatures
  • Theology

History

The company was founded in Frankfurt am Main in 1970 by Swiss editor Peter Lang. Since 1982 it has an American subsidiary, Peter Lang Publishing USA, specializing in textbooks for classroom use in education,[8] media and communication, and Black studies, as well as monographs in the humanities and social sciences.[9][10]

Academic journals

Peter Lang publishers 23 academic journals.[11]

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  • Asiatische Studien/Études Asiatiques
  • Cognitive Semiotics
  • Compar(a)ison
  • Cultura
  • Faits de Langues
  • Informationes Theologiae Europae
  • International Journal of Musicology, New Series
  • Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik
  • Jahrbuch für Pädagogik
  • Journal of International Mobility
  • Journal of Public Pedagogy
  • Literatur für Leser
  • Mediaevistik
  • Neue Politische Literatur
  • Pädagogische Rundschau
  • Philology
  • Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education
  • SPIEL, Neue Folge
  • Variations
  • Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik
  • Zeitschrift für Germanistik Online DB
  • Zeitschrift für Weltgeschichte
  • Zeitschrift für Wortbildung/Journal of Word Formation

References

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  4. 4.0 4.1 Peter Lang Website
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  6. Peter Lang Press Releases
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