Lynne Rienner Publishers

Lynne Rienner Publishers is an independent scholarly and textbook publishing firm based in Boulder, Colorado. It was founded in 1984 and remains one of the few independent publishers in the United States.

Lynne Rienner Publishers
Founded1984
Headquarters locationBoulder, Colorado, U.S.
Distributionself-distributed (North America)
Eurospan Group (Europe)
Taylor & Francis (Asia, Australia)
Cranbury International (Latin America)[1]
Publication typesBooks, Journals
Official websitewww.rienner.com

It publishes primarily in the fields of international studies and comparative world politics, but also covers U.S. politics, sociology, Black politics, criminology, and the translation of relevant works into English. Some of its translations include books by Tawfiq al-Hakim, Ghassan Kanafani, Naguib Mahfouz, Derek Walcott, and others.[2]

Its publishing program includes the FirstForumPress, a specialized scholarly research forum that focuses on important work that might be overlooked due to market constraints, and the Kumarian Press, which focuses on poverty, underdevelopment, war, human rights abuses, and nonprofit managemen).[3]

Further reading

  • Lewis, Janice S. (1 July 2000). "An Assessment of Publisher Quality by Political Science Librarians". College & Research Libraries. 61 (4): 313–323. doi:10.5860/crl.61.4.313.

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