Status | Defunct |
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Founded | 1994 |
Founder | Daniel Kirkpatrick and George Walsh |
Successor | Routledge |
Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | Chicago |
Publication types | Books |
Nonfiction topics | Reference |
Fitzroy Dearborn was an American publisher of academic library reference titles with offices in London and Chicago. It was acquired by Taylor & Francis as an imprint of Routledge Reference in 2002, before Taylor & Francis merged with Informa.
At the time of its sale, the company had a backlist of 350 titles.
History
[edit]Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers was founded in 1994 by Daniel Kirkpatrick and George Walsh. The company was a publisher of academic library reference titles with offices in London and Chicago. It was acquired by the UK-based Taylor & Francis Group as an imprint of Routledge Reference in 2002.[1] Taylor & Francis itself subsequently merged with Informa.[2]
At the time of its sale, the company had a backlist of 350 titles, many of them award-winning.
Name
[edit]The name of the company was derived from the districts of London and Chicago in which its offices were located, Fitzrovia and Dearborn respectively.
Titles
[edit]Fitzroy Dearborn's titles included:
- Dictionary of Artists' Models. ISBN 1-57958-233-8
- Dictionary of Women Artists. ISBN 1-884964-21-4
- Encyclopedia of African History
- Encyclopedia of AIDS. ISBN 1-57958-007-6
- Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography. ISBN 1-57958-009-2
- Encyclopedia of the Essay. ISBN 1-884964-30-3
- Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition. ISBN 1-57958-141-2
- Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing. ISBN 1-884964-33-8
- Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. ISBN 1-884964-98-2
- Encyclopedia of Interior Design. ISBN 1-884964-19-2
- Encyclopedia of Life Writing. ISBN 1-57958-232-X
- Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English. ISBN 1-884964-36-2
- Encyclopedia of Mexico. ISBN 1-884964-31-1
- Encyclopedia of Monasticism. ISBN 1-57958-090-4
- Encyclopedia of the Novel. ISBN 1-57958-015-7
- Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. ISBN 1-57958-208-7
- Encyclopedia of Sculpture. ISBN 1-57958-248-6
- Encyclopedia of Television. ISBN 1-884964-26-5
- International Book Publishing An Encyclopedia. ISBN 1-884964-16-8
- Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. ISBN 1-57958-313-X
- Reader's Guide to American History. ISBN 1-884964-22-2
- Reader's Guide to the History of Science. ISBN 1-884964-29-X
- Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies ISBN 1-57958-142-0
- Reader's Guide to Literature in English. ISBN 1-884964-20-6
- Reader's Guide to Military History. ISBN 1-57958-241-9
- Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences. ISBN 1-57958-091-2
- Reference Guide to Russian Literature. ISBN 1-884964-10-9
References
[edit]- ^ Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers acquired by T&F Archived 2012-02-29 at the Wayback Machine, The Bookseller, 9 September 2002
- ^ Newswires, Kay Larsen Dow Jones (2 March 2004). "Informa and T&F Agree to Stock Merger In $1.06 Million Deal". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 19 March 2021.