Tradition
Duke University Press
Overview
Duke University Press is an American academic publisher and university press affiliated with Duke University. It was founded in 1921 by William T. Laprade as The Trinity College Press (Duke University was initially called Trinity College). In 1926 Duke University Press was formally established. Ernest Seeman became its first director, followed by Henry Dwyer (1929–1944), W.T. LaPrade (1944–1951), Ashbel Brice (1951–1981), Richard Rowson (1981–1990), Larry Malley (1990–1993), Stanley Fish and Steve Cohn (1994–1998), Steve Cohn (1998–2019). As of 2020, Dean Smith was the director of the press.
It publishes approximately 150 books annually and more than 55 academic journals, as well as five electronic collections. The company publishes primarily in the humanities and social sciences but is also particularly well known for its mathematics journals. The book publishing program includes lists in African studies, African American studies, American studies, anthropology, art and art history, Asian studies, Asian American studies, Chicano/Latino and Latin American studies, cultural studies, film and TV studies, indigenous and Native American studies, music, political and social theory, queer theory/LGBT studies, religion, science studies, and women's and gender studies.
Notable authors published by Duke University Press include Achille Mbembe, Donna Haraway, Lauren Berlant, Arturo Escobar, Walter Mignolo, Jack Halberstam, Sara Ahmed, Jane Bennett, Patricia Hill Collins, Jennifer Christine Nash, Christina Sharpe, Dionne Brand, Fredric Jameson, Gloria Anzaldua, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Stuart Hall, C.L.R. James, and James Baldwin.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
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There was no getting the thing recorded in books as you may now. You had to hear him speaking to you vocally, or else you could not learn at all what it was that he wanted to say. And so they gathered together the various people who had anything to teach, and formed themselves gradually, under the patronage of kings and other potentates who were anxious about the culture of their populations, nobly anxious for their…
Thomas Carlyle, On the Choice of Books
The author is tied to Duke University Press in the knowledge graph.
Ritter,' with Reinwald for his one friend and adviser. Reinwald, who commanded the resources of an excellent Library, and of a sound understanding, long seriously and painfully cultivated, was of essential use to Schiller; and is reckoned to be the first real guide or useful counsellor he ever had in regard to Literature. One of Christophine's Letters to her Brother, written at her Father's order, fell by accident…
Thomas Carlyle, The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
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In 1671 he and three others took over the management of the Press, paying the University £200 a year and spending themselves a large sum upon its development. Lastly, it seems that he suggested to Archbishop Sheldon the provision, due to his munificence, of the new and spacious printing house and _Theatre_ which still bears his name.
Oxford University Press, Some Account of the Oxford University Press, 1468-1921
Close in meaning to Duke University Press; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Duke University Press
- Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Thomas Carlyle
- Judith Butler
- Michelangelo
- Xenophanes
- Walter Benjamin
- Bruno Latour
- Immanuel Wallerstein
- Jack Halberstam
- Transgender studies
Related ideas
- Mathematics
- Donna Haraway
- Peer review
- Social science
- Fredric Jameson
- Humanities
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
- Jack Halberstam
- Jane Bennett (political theorist)
- Transgender studies
Place in the tradition
Part of Communism.