Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (
middle school
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through
university
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level) which is today part of
ABC-Clio. Established in 1967 as Greenwood Press, Inc. and based in
Westport, Connecticut
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, GPG publishes
reference works
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under its Greenwood Press
imprint
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, and scholarly, professional, and general interest books under its related imprint, Praeger Publishers (). Also part of GPG is Libraries Unlimited, which publishes professional works for librarians and teachers.
History
1967–1999
The company was founded as Greenwood Press, Inc. in 1967 by Harold Mason, a librarian and antiquarian bookseller, and Harold Schwartz who had a background in trade publishing. Based in
Greenwood, New York, the company initially focused on reprinting
out-of-print
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works, particularly titles listed in the American Library Association's first edition of ''Books for College Libraries'' (1967), under the Greenwood Press imprint, and out-of-print
periodicals
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published as ''American Radical Periodicals'' under the Greenwood Reprint imprint. In 1969 the company was sold to Williamhouse-Regency, a paper and stationery manufacturing company then on the
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, which led to further expanding its reprint activities as well as starting a microform publishing imprint, Greenwood Microforms.
By 1970 a small scholarly monograph program was established and Robert Hagelstein, formerly with the Johnson Reprint Corporation, a division of
Academic Press
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, was hired as Vice President. In 1973, Mason and Schwartz left the company, and Hagelstein was named President, a position he would hold until his retirement at the end of 1999. During those twenty-seven years, the press wound down its reprint activities diverting its focus to new scholarly, reference, and professional books. This large-scale redirection of the company resulted in the publication of more than 10,000 titles during those years.
On August 25, 1976 the company was sold to the Congressional Information Service, Inc (CIS) and in 1979 became part of the Dutch publishing giant,
Elsevier
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, following Elsevier's purchase of CIS. That same year the press initiated its Quorum Books imprint, which published professional titles in
business
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and
law
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.
On January 1, 1986 GPI expanded yet again when it purchased Praeger Publishers, founded by Frederick A. Praeger in 1949, from
CBS, Inc., and in 1989 when it acquired Bergin & Garvey and Auburn House.
At the beginning of 1990, the company's name was changed from Greenwood Press, Inc. to Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. When Elsevier merged with Reed International in 1993, GPG became part of
Reed Elsevier
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, and by the mid-1990s the operational part of GPG joined with Heinemann USA, which had been part of Reed.
When Hagelstein retired at the end of 1999, Wayne Smith was named president. Under Smith, GPG made a number of additional acquisitions including the Ablex and Oryx imprints and Libraries Unlimited, and expanded GPG's
on line and
CD-ROM
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products under its Greenwood Electronic Media imprint.
2000–present
On July 12, 2001, Reed Elsevier completed its acquisition of Harcourt. Harcourt became a wholly owned subsidiary of Reed Elsevier and GPG became part of
Harcourt Education
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.
On December 13, 2007, GPG became part of Houghton Mifflin Company as a result of Houghton's acquisition of Harcourt.
On October 1, 2008,
ABC-Clio and
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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announced an agreement granting ABC-Clio a perpetual license to use the imprints and publish the titles of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), including Greenwood Press, Praeger Publishers, Praeger Security International, and Libraries Unlimited. In addition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt would also transfer certain assets, including copyrights, contracts and inventory, of Greenwood Publishing Group to ABC-Clio. This agreement became effective immediately. The 88 Post Road West office in
Westport, Connecticut
Westport is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, along the Long Island Sound within Connecticut's Gold Coast. It is northeast of New York City. The town had a population of 27,141 according to the 2020 U.S. Census.
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was closed as a result, with layoffs scheduled to begin in first week in December 2008. The transfer of GPG to ABC-CLIO occurred during 2009.
Subsidiaries
Imprints
* Greenwood Press (
reference work
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s)
* Greenwood World Publishing
Former imprints
* Praeger Security International (international security studies - founded by Heather Ruland Staines and Adam T. Heath): Became subsidiary of ABC-CLIO.
* Praeger Publishers (scholarly and general interest): Became subsidiary of
ABC-CLIO.
* Libraries Unlimited (for libraries and teachers): Became subsidiary of ABC-CLIO.
Former subsidiaries
*
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See also
* Heineman
* Jamie Hyneman
James Franklin Hyneman (born Se ...
USA
Selected publications
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The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore
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The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy
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References
External links
ABC-CLIO/Greenwood home pageFolkLib Index – Bio-Bibliographies by Greenwood Press– all 205 known books published 1982-2005
"List of Radical Periodicals in the United States (Reissued 1968–70)."– list of the 109 radical periodicals reissued by Greenwood.
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