routledge parent company taylor & francis status active founded 1851 ; 165 years ago 1851 founder george routledge country of origin united kingdom headquarters location abingdon on thames distribution world wide key people jeremy north md books 1 publication types books & journals nonfiction topics humanities social science behavioral science education law . fiction genres non fiction . academic & scholarly . official website www.routledge.com 2008 conference booth routledge ra tl d is a british multinational publisher . it was founded in 1836 by george routledge and specialises in providing academic books journals & online resources in the fields of humanities and social science . the company publishes 1 800 journals & 5 000 new books each year and their backlist encompasses over 70 000 titles . 2 routledge is claimed to be the largest global academic publisher within humanities and social sciences . 3 in 1998 routledge became a subdivision and imprint of its former rival taylor & francis group as a result of a 90 million acquisition deal from cinven a venture capital group which had purchased it two years previously for 25 million . 4 contents 1 history 2 people 3 series 4 works 4.1 encyclopaedias 5 see also 6 notes 7 references 8 external links history edit the firm originated in 1836 when camden bookseller george routledge published an unsuccessful guidebook the beauties of gilsand with his brother in law w h william henry warne as assistant . in 1848 the pair entered the booming market for selling inexpensive imprints of works of fiction to rail travellers in the style of the german tauchnitz family which became known as the railway library . 5 the venture was a success which was mainly due to the mass hysteria in the 1840s due to railway mania and it eventually led to routledge along with w h warne s brother frederick warne to found the company george routledge & co. in 1851 . 6 the following year in 1852 the company gained lucrative business through selling pirated reprints of uncle tom s cabin which allowed for it to be able to pay author edward bulwer lytton 20 000 for a 10 year lease allowing sole rights to print all 35 of his works 5 7 including 19 of his novels to be sold cheaply as part of their railway library series . 8 the company was restyled in 1858 as routledge warne & routledge when george routledge s son robert warne routledge entered the partnership . frederick warne eventually left the company after the death of his brother w.h. warne in may 1859 died aged 37 . 9 gaining rights to some titles he founded frederick warne & co in 1865 which became known for its beatrix potter books . 10 in july 1865 his son edmund routledge became a partner and the firm became george routledge & sons . 11 however by 1902 the company was running close to bankruptcy . following a successful restructuring it was able to recover and began to acquire and merge with other publishing companies . amongst these were j. c. nimmo ltd. 1903 and kegan paul trench tr bner & co. 1912 . these early 20th century acquisitions brought with them lists of notable scholarly titles and it is from 1912 onwards that routledge & kegan paul the new company name became increasingly concentrated on and involved with the academic and scholarly publishing business . it was soon particularly known for its titles in the social sciences . in 1985 routledge & kegan paul joined with associated book publishers abp 12 which was later acquired by international thomson in 1987 . under thomson s ownership routledge s name and operations were retained and in 1996 a management buyout financed by the european private equity firm cinven saw routledge operating as an independent company once again . just two year later cinven and routledge s directors accepted a deal for routledge s acquisition by taylor & francis group t & f with the routledge name being retained as an imprint and subdivision . 13 in 2004 t & f became a division within informa plc after a merger . routledge continues as a publishing arm and imprint under the t & f division with a majority of its titles issued as academic humanities and social science books . people edit the famous english publisher fredric warburg was a commissioning editor at routledge during the early 20th century . felix dodds sustainable development author and editor series edit routledge has published many of the greatest thinkers and scholars of the last hundred years including adorno einstein russell popper wittgenstein jung bohm hayek mcluhan marcuse and sartre . the modernist works of these authors have appeared as part of the routledge classics and routledge great minds series . competitors to the series are verso book s radical thinkers penguin classics and oxford world s classics . works edit encyclopaedias edit taylor and francis closed down the routledge encyclopedia division in 2006 . some of its publications were routledge encyclopedia of philosophy by edward craig 1998 in 10 volumes but now online . encyclopedia of ethics by lawrence c. becker and charlotte b. becker 2002 in three volumes . routledge encyclopedia of international political economy encyclopedia of paleontology by ronald singer 1987 . encyclopedia of language teaching and learning by michael byram 2001 . encyclopedic publications of europa publications actually published by routledge europa world year book international who s who europa world of learning see also edit list of language self study programs category routledge academic journals category routledge books notes edit managing director humanities & social science books taylor & francis group . informa . about us routledge . retrieved 14 february 2015 . publishing with us routledge . taylor & francis group . 2016 . books merger yields windfall of 6m . the independent . retrieved 14 february 2015 . a b yellowbacks iii routledge s railway library . retrieved 15 february 2015 . ucl library services routledge & kegan paul ltd archives 1850 1984 . retrieved 15 february 2015 . sutherland 2009 527 553 . barnes james j. ; barnes patience p. 2004 . routledge george . oxford dictionary of national biography online ed . . oxford university press . doi 10.1093 ref odnb 24184 . subscription or uk public library membership required . geni william henry warne 1822 1859 genealogy . retrieved 16 february 2015 . ketupa.net taylor and francis informa . retrieved 16 february 2015 . routledge george dnb00 . dnb . retrieved 10 november 2015 . whipp 1992 47 clark & phillips 2008 xvi ; cope 1998 references edit boynton robert march april 1995 . the routledge revolution has academic publishing gone tabloid online reproduction by author n.pag . . lingua franca the review of academic life . mamaroneck ny lingua franca inc. 5 3 24 32 . oclc 61311445 . retrieved 21 august 2009 . clark giles n. ; angus phillips 2008 . inside book publishing . taylor & francis e library collection 4th ed . . abingdon uk and new york routledge . isbn 978 0 203 34154 4 . oclc 182573667 . cope nigel 5 november 1998 . books merger yields windfall of 6m online edition . the independent . london independent news & media . retrieved 21 august 2009 . warburg fredric 1960 . an occupation for gentlemen 1st american ed . . boston ma houghton mifflin . oclc 1201220 . whipp richard 1992 . human resource management competition and strategy some productive tensions . in paul blyton and peter turnbull eds . . reassessing human resource management . london sage publications . pp. 33 55 . isbn 0 8039 8697 1 . oclc 28325927 . sutherland john 2009 . the longman companion to victorian fiction 2nd ed . . abingdon uk and new york usa routledge . isbn 978 140820390 3 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to routledge . official website routledge revivals reprints from humanities and social sciences publications from the backlists of routledge imprints routledge & kegan paul archives university college london library v t e informa plc taylor & francis crc 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