A Brief History of Peter Lang Publishing
Founded in 1970, Peter Lang Publishing Group is a large non-fiction publishing company headquartered in Bern, Switzerland, with offices in New York, Oxford, Vienna, Brussels, and Frankfurt. With over 40,000 titles in the humanities and social sciences in print, Peter Lang's reputation is well deserved. For more than thirty-five years Peter Lang has published the best of academia, rigorously maintaining its place at the heart of the academic publishing world in Europe and the US.
Now Peter Lang will use its established academic reputation as a base to launch more accessible trade titles, bringing the most important and exciting discoveries, ideas, and people in academia to a wider general audience. Peter Lang's new list is called The Past in the Present and addresses current issues with a historical perspective in controversial and surprising new ways. What makes the list different is that history is conceived not only as a political subject, but as the relationship between people, ideas, and places as well. It embraces all subjects, from literature and art to philosophy, music and history of science.
The emphasis is on clarity of thought, editorial excellence and an avoidance of jargon.
Our prestigious editorial board, selected to peer-review each title and uphold our commitment to editorial standards, includes ten international academics drawn from various disciplines from the highest-ranked universities in the world, including Oxford and Cambridge.