Peter Lang is an
academic publisher specializing in the
humanities
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and
social science
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s. It has its headquarters in
Pieterlen
Pieterlen (french: Perles) is a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
History
Pieterlen is first mentioned in 1228 as ''Perla''. In 1268 it was mentioned as ''Bieterlo''.
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and
Bern,
Switzerland, with offices in
Brussels
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,
Frankfurt am Main
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,
New York City
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,
Dublin
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,
Oxford
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,
Vienna
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, and
Warsaw
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.
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Peter Lang publishes over 1,800 academic titles annually, both in print and digital formats, with a backlist
A backlist is a list of older books available from a publisher. This is opposed to newly-published titles, which is sometimes known as the frontlist.
Business
Building a strong backlist has traditionally been considered the best method to produ ...
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Areas of publication
The company specializes in the following twelve subject areas:
History
The company was founded in Frankfurt am Main
Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...
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
Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty ...
, media and communication, and Black studies, as well as monographs in the humanities
Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t ...
and social science
Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of so ...
s.
Academic journals
Peter Lang publishers 23 academic journals
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.
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Publishing companies established in 1970
Academic publishing companies
Publishing companies of Switzerland
Companies based in Bern
Mass media in Bern