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| Status | Defunct |
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| Founded | 1999 (1999) |
| Founder | Werner Mark Linz |
| Successor | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | London, New York City |
| Publication types | Books |
| Imprints | Burns & Oates,T&T Clark |
| Official website | bloomsbury |
Continuum International Publishing Group was anacademic publisher of books with editorial offices in London and New York City. It was purchased by Nova Capital Management in 2005. In July 2011, it was taken over byBloomsbury Publishing.[1] As of September 2012[update], all new Continuum titles are published under the Bloomsbury name (under the imprint Bloomsbury Academic).[2]
Continuum International was created in 1999 with the merger of theCassell academic and religious lists (includingGeoffrey Chapman, Mansell, Mowbray,Pinter, and Leicester University Press imprints) and the Continuum Publishing Company, founded in New York in 1980.[3][4]
The academic publishing programme was focused on thehumanities, especially the fields of philosophy, film and music, literature, education,linguistics, theology, andbiblical studies. Continuum published Paulo Freire's seminalPedagogy of the Oppressed and music criticism series33⅓.[citation needed]
Continuum acquiredAthlone Press, which was founded in 1948 as theUniversity of London publishing house and sold to theBemrose Corporation in 1979.[5]
In 2003, Continuum acquired the London-based Hambledon & London[6] (Sunday Times Small Publisher of the Year 2001–02),[7] a publisher of trade history for the general reader.
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