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McGill–Queen's University Press

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Canadian university press
McGill–Queen's University Press
Parent companyMcGill University andQueen's University at Kingston
Country of originCanada
Headquarters locationMontreal, Quebec
DistributionGeorgetown Terminal Warehouses (Canada)
Marston Book Services (EMEA)
Chicago Distribution Center (US)
East-West Export Books (Asia and Australasia)
Research Press (Indian Subcontinent)[1]
Publication typesBooks
Official websitewww.mqup.ca

TheMcGill–Queen's University Press (MQUP) is a Canadianuniversity press formed as ajoint venture betweenMcGill University inMontreal,Quebec andQueen's University at Kingston inKingston,Ontario.

McGill–Queen's University Press publishes originalpeer-reviewed works in most areas of thesocial sciences andhumanities. As of 2023, it has more than 4,000 books in print.[2] For more than twenty-five years, the publishing house has been under the direction of executive director Philip Cercone, a former director of Canada's Awards to Scholarly Publishing Program, the governmental agency that funds scholarly books published in Canada. Under Cercone's guidance, the list has grown to the point where MQUP is sometimes claimed to be Canada's leading academic publisher. For many years, one of its senior editors was the historian and authorDonald Akenson.

The press is currently a member of theAssociation of University Presses.[3]

Publications

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Among the best-known academics to have published with the press areJacob Neusner,Margaret Somerville,Stéphane Dion,Charles Taylor,Bruce Trigger andChristl Verduyn. It also has a poetry list including such writers asCarmine Starnino,Mark Abley,Peter Dale Scott and Brian Bartlett. In recent years the press has also become known for contentious books on Canadian politics byTom Flanagan among others. Some of its books are translated from French.[citation needed]

McGill–Queen's has been awarded numerous prizes for the design of its books, as well as for editorial quality.

History

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McGill–Queen's University Press began as McGill in 1961 and amalgamated with Queen's in 1969.[4]

References

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  1. ^"Distribution". McGill–Queen's University Press.
  2. ^"About MQUP". McGill–Queen's University Press.
  3. ^"Our Members".Association of University Presses. RetrievedJanuary 30, 2023.
  4. ^Parker, George L. (16 December 2013)."University Presses".The Canadian Encyclopedia.Historica Canada.

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