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Princeton University Press
Overview
Princeton University Press is an independent nonprofit publisher closely affiliated with Princeton University. Founded in 1905, its mission is to disseminate scholarly ideas within academia and among the broader public. With over 10,000 titles in print, Princeton University Press publishes more than 300 new non-fiction books each year. It is headquartered in Princeton, NJ, with additional offices in Oxford, England, and Beijing, China.
Christie Henry became the press' ninth director in 2017. Since then, the press has diversified its offerings to include audiobooks, a speakers' bureau, and representation of other publishers' titles in China. In 2025, Princeton University Press acquired Island Press, a nonprofit publisher that focuses on environmental issues and the built environment.
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Even then it was, probably, in a better condition than it had been at the Norman conquest: and at the Norman conquest, than during the confusion of the Saxon heptarchy. Even at this early period, it was certainly a more improved country than at the invasion of Julius Caesar, when its inhabitants were nearly in the same state with the savages in North America.
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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The use of illustration is, however, by no means confined to facsimiles and works on the arts. The modern productions of the Press have made an increasing use of illustration both as an embellishment and as a medium of information. School-books in particular are now lavishly illustrated with portraits, maps, diagrams, and other reproductions, often either of modern photographs or of old cuts and engravings carefully…
Oxford University Press, Some Account of the Oxford University Press, 1468-1921
Names Princeton University Press.
The charitable foundations of scholarships, exhibitions, bursaries, &c. necessarily attach a certain number of students to certain colleges, independent altogether of the merit of those particular colleges. Were the students upon such charitable foundations left free to choose what college they liked best, such liberty might perhaps contribute to excite some emulation among different colleges. A regulation, on the…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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Philosophers who discussed Princeton University Press
- Edmund Burke
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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- John Rawls
- Nuel Belnap
- Mircea Eliade
- Isaiah Berlin
- John Locke
- Karl Marx
- Adam Smith
- Thomas Sowell
- Maimonides
- Judith Jarvis Thomson
- Paul Valéry
- René Descartes
- Jews
- Brian Leiter
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Pavel Florensky
- Thomas Hobbes
- Nikolai Berdyaev
- Bruno Latour
- Paul Thagard
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Place in the tradition
Part of Anarchism.
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