publishing group parent company bloomsbury publishing status defunct founded 1999 1999 founder werner mark linz successor bloomsbury academic country of origin united kingdom headquarters location london new york city publication types books imprints burns & oates t & t clark official website continuumbooks.com 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 . 1 as of september 2012 all new continuum titles are published under the bloomsbury name under the imprint bloomsbury academic . 2 continuum international was created in 1999 with the merger of the cassell academic and religious lists and the continuum publishing company founded in new york in 1980 . 3 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 . continuum acquired athlone press which was founded in 1948 as the university of london publishing house and sold to the bemrose corporation in 1979 . 4 in 2003 continuum acquired the london based hambledon & london 5 sunday times small publisher of the year 2001 02 6 a publisher of trade history for the general reader . imprints edit burns & oates hambledon continuum history publishing imprint t & t clark thoemmes press references edit bloomsbury bernimmt continuum international publishing group . boersenblatt.net . july 11 2011 . retrieved july 12 2011 . rebranding of continuum berg and bristol classical press . november 2012 . retrieved november 23 2012 . allbusiness november 29 2006 sturrock departs continuum article citing companies encompassed by continuum retrieved 21 december 2009 archives in london & the m25 area aim25 november 29 2006 athlone press 1945 1979 holdings at senate house library university of london retrieved 21 december 2009 about hambledon continuum . archived from the original on january 15 2008 . retrieved 2009 01 24 . hambledon and london . archived from the original on january 20 2009 . retrieved 2009 01 24 . external links edit official website this article about a publishing company in the united kingdom is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title continuum international publishing group & oldid 738488629 categories book publishing companies of the united kingdombook publishing companies based in new yorkpublishing companies established in 1999united kingdom publishing company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 9 september 2016 at 07 18 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view