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Harvard University Press

Coordinates: 42°22′58.8″N 71°7′37.3″W / 42.383000°N 71.127028°W / 42.383000; -71.127028
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Not to be confused with Harvard Business Publishing.
Harvard University Press
Parent companyHarvard University
FoundedJanuary 13, 1913; 111 years ago (1913-01-13)
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationCambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
DistributionTriLiteral (United States)
John Wiley & Sons (international)[1]
Key peopleGeorge Andreou (Director)
Publication typesAcademic publishing
ImprintsBelknap
Official websitewww.hup.harvard.edu
Kittredge Hall, home to Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press (HUP) is a academic publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University.[2] It is a member of the Association of University Presses.[3] Its director since 2017 is George Andreou.[4]

The press maintains offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts near Harvard Square, and in London, England. The press co-founded the distributor TriLiteral LLC with MIT Press and Yale University Press.[5] TriLiteral was sold to LSC Communications in 2018.[6]

Notable authors published by HUP include Eudora Welty, Walter Benjamin, E. O. Wilson, John Rawls, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Jay Gould, Helen Vendler, Carol Gilligan, Amartya Sen, David Blight, Martha Nussbaum, and Thomas Piketty.[citation needed]

The Display Room in Harvard Square, dedicated to selling HUP publications, closed on June 17, 2009.[7]

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HUP owns the Belknap Press imprint, which it inaugurated in May 1954 with the publication of the Harvard Guide to American History.[8] The John Harvard Library book series is published under the Belknap imprint, which was established through an endowment from the estate of art historian and Harvard alumnus Waldron Phoenix Belknap Jr.

Harvard University Press distributes the Loeb Classical Library and is the publisher of the I Tatti Renaissance Library, the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, and the Murty Classical Library of India.

It is distinct from Harvard Business Press, which is part of Harvard Business Publishing, and the independent Harvard Common Press.

Awards

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Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act by Joe Roman, published in 2011,[9] received the 2012 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists.[10]

Controversies

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Harvard University Press joined The Association of American Publishers trade organization in the Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit which resulted in the removal of access to over 500,000 books from global readers.[11][12]

Publications

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Main category: Harvard University Press books

See also

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References

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  1. ^ TriLiteral
  2. ^ "As Many Books as Possible Short of Bankruptcy". Harvard Magazine. March–April 2013. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
  3. ^ "Our Members". Association of University Presses. Retrieved January 30, 2023.
  4. ^ "New director for Harvard University Press". Harvard Gazette. July 12, 2017. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
  5. ^ TriLiteral
  6. ^ Milliot, Jim (April 3, 2018). "LSC Buys TriLiteral; Turner Purchases Gürze Books". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved July 8, 2018.
  7. ^ "Last Chapter". Harvard Magazine. September–October 2009. Retrieved December 2, 2010.
  8. ^ Bridenbaugh, Carl (May 9, 1954). "For Explorers of Our Past: Harvard Guide to American History". The New York Times Book Review. Retrieved May 30, 2010.
  9. ^ Roman, Joe (2011). Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674061279.
  10. ^ "Winners: SEJ 11th Annual Awards for Reporting on the Environment". Society of Environmental Journalists. October 17, 2012. Archived from the original on August 24, 2017. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
  11. ^ https://help.archive.org/help/why-are-so-many-books-listed-as-borrow-unavailable-at-the-internet-archive/
  12. ^ https://publishers.org/who-we-are/our-members/

Bibliography

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