The McGill-Queen's University Press (MQUP) is a joint venture between Canadian universities McGill University of Montreal, Quebec and Queen's University of Kingston, Ontario.
| McGill-Queen's University Press | |
|---|---|
| Parent company | McGill University and Queen's University |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Publication types | Books |
| Official website | mqup.mcgill.ca |
History[]
The firm began as McGill University Press in 1960. Queen's University became a partner in 1969.[1] It focuses on Canadian studies, and in the 1980s it issued the Canadian Public Administration Series.[2]
The press faced financial collapse in 1980, but survived by moving faculty members into editorial positions and temporarily reducing its size. Since then it has increased its outputfrom about half a dozen new titles a year to more than 80.[1]
Today[]
McGill-Queen's University Press publishes original peer-reviewed works in most areas of the social sciences and humanities. It currently has more than 2,800 books in print.[3]
For more than 25 years, the publishing house has been under the direction of Executive Director Senior Editor Philip Cercone, a former director of Canada's Aid to Scholarly Publishing Programme, the governmental agency that funds scholarly books published in Canada. Under Cercone's guidance, the list has grown to the point where MQUP is generally recognized as Canada's leading academic publisher. One of its editors is historian and author Donald Akenson.
Publications[]
Among the most well-known academics to have published with the press are Jacob Neusner, Margaret Somerville, Stéphane Dion, Charles Taylor, Bruce Trigger and Christl Verduyn. It also has a poetry list including such writers as Carmine Starnino, Mark Abley, Peter Dale Scott and Brian Bartlett. In recent years the press has also become known for contentious books on Canadian politics by Tom Flanagan among others. Some of its books are translated from the French.
McGill-Queen's has been awarded numerous prizes for the design of its books.
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 McGill-Queen's University Press, Queen's Encyclopedia. Web, Jan. 9, 2019.
- ↑ George L. Parker, "University Presses," Canadian Encyclopedia (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988), 2225a. Print
- ↑ About MQUP