Continuum International Publishing Group

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| founded = {{start date|1999}}

| founder = Werner Mark Linz

| successor = Bloomsbury Academic

| country = United Kingdom

| headquarters = London, New York City

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| publications = Books

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| imprints = Burns & Oates, T&T Clark

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Continuum International Publishing Group was an academic publisher of books with editorial offices in London and New York City. It was purchased by Nova Capital Management in 2005. In July 2011, it was taken over by Bloomsbury Publishing.{{cite web |url=http://m.boersenblatt.net/449307/ |title=Bloomsbury übernimmt Continuum International Publishing Group |publisher=Boersenblatt |date=11 July 2011 |access-date=12 July 2011 |archive-date=28 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111228151703/http://m.boersenblatt.net/449307/ |url-status=dead }} {{as of|2012|September|}}, all new Continuum titles are published under the Bloomsbury name (under the imprint Bloomsbury Academic).{{cite web|url=http://www.bloomsbury.com/rebranding-continuum-berg-bcp/ |title=Rebranding of Continuum, Berg and Bristol Classical Press |date=November 2012 |website=Bloomsbury |access-date=23 November 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130429214016/http://www.bloomsbury.com/rebranding-continuum-berg-bcp/ |archive-date=29 April 2013 }}

History

Continuum International was created in 1999 with the merger of the Cassell academic and religious lists (including Geoffrey Chapman, Mansell, Mowbray, Pinter, and Leicester University Press imprints) and the Continuum Publishing Company, founded in New York in 1980.{{Cite web |title=About The Continuum International Publishing Group |url=http://www.continuumbooks.com/about.html |access-date=21 December 2023 |website=The Continuum International Publishing Group |archive-date=15 September 2000 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000915125530/http://www.continuumbooks.com/about.html |url-status=unfit }}{{cite web|date=29 November 2006|title=Article citing companies encompassed by Continuum|url=http://www.allbusiness.com/retail-trade/miscellaneous-retail-miscellaneous/4663699-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110817195416/http://www.allbusiness.com/retail-trade/miscellaneous-retail-miscellaneous/4663699-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 August 2011|access-date=21 December 2009}}

The academic publishing programme was focused on the humanities, especially the fields of philosophy, film and music, literature, education, linguistics, theology, and biblical studies. Continuum published Paulo Freire's seminal Pedagogy of the Oppressed and music criticism series 33⅓.{{cn|date=March 2024}}

Continuum acquired Athlone Press, which was founded in 1948 as the University of London publishing house and sold to the Bemrose Corporation in 1979.{{cite book|publisher=AIM25 |chapter=Athlone Press: 1945–1979|title=Senate House Library, University of London |chapter-url=http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cats/14/1671.htm|access-date=21 December 2009|archive-date=6 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606132612/http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cats/14/1671.htm|url-status=dead}}

In 2003, Continuum{{Anchor|Hambledon Continuum}} acquired the London-based Hambledon & London{{cite web|url=http://www.continuumbooks.com/AboutUs/default.aspx?ImprintID=8&CountryID=1 |title=about hambledon continuum |website=Hambledon Continuum |access-date=24 January 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080115142917/http://www.continuumbooks.com/AboutUs/default.aspx?ImprintID=8&CountryID=1 |archive-date=15 January 2008 }} (Sunday Times Small Publisher of the Year 2001–02),{{cite web|url=http://www.hambledon.co.uk/system/index.html |title=Hambledon and London |access-date=24 January 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090120203636/http://www.hambledon.co.uk/system/index.html |archive-date=20 January 2009 }} a publisher of trade history for the general reader.

Imprints

Burns & Oates
Hambledon Continuum – history publishing imprint
T&T Clark
Thoemmes Press

References

External links

{{oweb|https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/}}

Category:Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom

Category:Book publishing companies based in New York City

Category:Publishing companies established in 1999

Category:1999 establishments in New York (state)