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Independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University

Princeton University Press

Founded	1905; 119 years ago (1905)
Founder	Whitney Darrow
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	Princeton, New Jersey
Distribution	Ingram Publisher Services (Americas, Asia, Australia)John Wiley & Sons (EMEA, India)United Publishers Services (Japan)[1]
Publication types	Books
Official website	press.princeton.edu
Princeton University Press
U.S. Historic districtContributing property
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Location	41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°20′59.8″N 74°39′13.3″W / 40.349944°N 74.653694°W / 40.349944; -74.653694
Built	1911
Architect	Ernest Flagg
Architectural style	Collegiate Gothic
Part of	Princeton Historic District (ID75001143)
Added to NRHP	27 June 1975

Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University. Its mission is to disseminate scholarship within academia and society at large.

The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financial support of Charles Scribner, as a printing press to serve the Princeton community in 1905.[2] Its distinctive building was constructed in 1911 on William Street in Princeton.[3] Its first book was a new 1912 edition of John Witherspoon's Lectures on Moral Philosophy.[4]

Princeton University Press was founded in 1905 by a recent Princeton graduate, Whitney Darrow, with financial support from another Princetonian, Charles Scribner II. Darrow and Scribner purchased the equipment and assumed the operations of two already existing local publishers, that of the Princeton Alumni Weekly and the Princeton Press. The new press printed both local newspapers, university documents, The Daily Princetonian, and later added book publishing to its activities.[5] Beginning as a small, for-profit printer, Princeton University Press was reincorporated as a nonprofit in 1910.[6] Since 1911, the press has been headquartered in a purpose-built gothic-style building designed by Ernest Flagg. The design of press's building, which was named the Scribner Building in 1965, was inspired by the Plantin-Moretus Museum, a printing museum in Antwerp, Belgium. Princeton University Press established a European office, in Woodstock, England, north of Oxford, in 1999, and opened an additional office, in Beijing, in early 2017.

Princeton University Press joined The Association of American Publishers trade organization in the Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit which resulted in the removal of access to over 500,000 books from global readers.[7][8]

Pulitzers and other major awards

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Six books from Princeton University Press have won Pulitzer Prizes:

• Russia Leaves the War by George F. Kennan (1957)[9]
• Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War by Bray Hammond (1958)[10]
• Between War and Peace by Herbert Feis (1961)[11]
• Washington: Village and Capital by Constance McLaughlin Green (1963)[12]
• The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger (1965)[13]
• Machiavelli in Hell by Sebastian de Grazia (1989)[14]

Books from Princeton University Press have also been awarded the Bancroft Prize, the Nautilus Book Award, and the National Book Award.

Multi-volume historical documents projects undertaken by the press include:

• The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein
• The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
• The Papers of Woodrow Wilson (sixty-nine volumes)
• The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
• Kierkegaard's Writings

The Papers of Woodrow Wilson has been called "one of the great editorial achievements in all history."[15]

Princeton University Press's Bollingen Series had its beginnings in the Bollingen Foundation, a 1943 project of Paul Mellon's Old Dominion Foundation. From 1945, the foundation had independent status, publishing and providing fellowships and grants in several areas of study, including archaeology, poetry, and psychology. The Bollingen Series was given to the university in 1969.

• Annals of Mathematics Studies (Alice Chang, Phillip A. Griffiths, Assaf Naor, editors; Lillian Pierce, associate editor)
• Princeton Series in Applied Mathematics (Ingrid Daubechies, Weinan E, Jan Karel Lenstra, Endre Süli, editors)
• Princeton Series in Astrophysics (David N. Spergel, editor)
• Princeton Series in Complexity (Simon A. Levin and Steven H. Strogatz, editors)
• Princeton Series in Evolutionary Biology (H. Allen Orr, editor)
• Princeton Series in International Economics (Gene M. Grossman, editor)
• Princeton Science Library
• Princeton Modern Greek Studies[16]
• Princeton Field Guides[17]
• Islamic Revival in British India by Barbara D. Metcalf (1982)
• The Ulama in Contemporary Islam by The Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change (2002)
• The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History, by Jill Lepore (2010)
• The Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein (1922)
• Atomic Energy for Military Purposes by Henry DeWolf Smyth (1945)
• How to Solve It by George Polya (1945)
• The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper (1945)
• The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell (1949)
• The Wilhelm/Baynes translation of the I Ching, Bollingen Series XIX. First copyright 1950, 27th printing 1997.
• Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye (1957)
• Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty (1979)
• QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard Feynman (1985)
• The Great Contraction 1929–1933 by Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz (1963) with a new Introduction by Peter L. Bernstein (2008)
• Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle by Stephen Biddle (2004)
• List of English-language book publishing companies
• List of university presses

1. ^ "North America & International Ordering Information". Archived from the original on September 9, 2017. Retrieved September 30, 2017.
2. ^ "Princeton University Press, Erected Through the Generousity [sic] of Charles Scribners, a New and Unique Adjunct to the University" (PDF). The New York Times. May 19, 1912.
3. ^ Letich, Alexander (1978). A Princeton Companion. Princeton University Press. Archived from the original on October 19, 2017. Retrieved July 16, 2015.
4. ^ A History of Princeton University Press Archived May 2, 2019, at the Wayback Machine (2002)
5. ^ Axtell, James (2006). The Making of Princeton University: From Woodrow Wilson to the Present. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-12686-0.
6. ^ "The New Princeton University Press". Publishers Weekly. 79 (22). New York: 2233–2234. June 3, 1911. Retrieved July 16, 2017.
7. ^ https://help.archive.org/help/why-are-so-many-books-listed-as-borrow-unavailable-at-the-internet-archive/
8. ^ https://publishers.org/who-we-are/our-members/
9. ^ The Pulitzer Prizes: 1957 Winners
10. ^ The Pulitzer Prizes: 1958 Winners
11. ^ The Pulitzer Prizes: 1961 Winners
12. ^ The Pulitzer Prizes: 1963 Winners
13. ^ The Pulitzer Prizes: 1965 Winners
14. ^ The Pulitzer Prizes: 1990 Winners
15. ^ Cooper, John Milton (2011). Woodrow Wilson: A Biography. Random House. p. 736. ISBN 978-0-307-27790-9. Retrieved July 28, 2012.
16. ^ Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies – Publications
17. ^ Princeton Field Guides

• Banks, Eric (April 1, 2005). "Book of Lists: Princeton University Press at 100". Artforum International.
• A Century in Books: Princeton University Press, 1905–2005. Princeton University Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-691-12292-2.
• Official website
• Princeton University Press: Albert Einstein Web Page
• Princeton University Press: Bollingen Series
• Princeton University Press: Annals of Mathematics Studies
• Princeton University Press Centenary Archived July 15, 2019, at the Wayback Machine
• Princeton University Press: New in Print