Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers
Fitzroy Dearborn was an American publisher of academic library reference titles with offices in London and Chicago. It was acquired by Taylor & Francis as an imprint of Routledge Reference in 2002, before Taylor & Francis merged with Informa.
At the time of its sale, the company had a backlist of 350 titles.
History
Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers was founded in 1994 by Daniel Kirkpatrick and George Walsh. The company was a publisher of academic library reference titles with offices in London and Chicago. It was acquired by the UK-based Taylor & Francis Group as an imprint of Routledge Reference in 2002. Taylor & Francis itself subsequently merged with Informa.At the time of its sale, the company had a backlist of 350 titles, many of them award-winning.
Name
The name of the company was derived from the districts of London and Chicago in which its offices were located, Fitzrovia and Dearborn respectively.Titles
Fitzroy Dearborn's titles included:- Dictionary of Artists' Models.
- Dictionary of Women Artists.
- Encyclopedia of African History
- Encyclopedia of AIDS.
- Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography.
- Encyclopedia of the Essay.
- Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition.
- Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing.
- Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture.
- Encyclopedia of Interior Design.
- Encyclopedia of Life Writing.
- Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English.
- Encyclopedia of Mexico.
- Encyclopedia of Monasticism.
- Encyclopedia of the Novel.
- Encyclopedia of the Palestinians.
- Encyclopedia of Sculpture.
- Encyclopedia of Television.
- International Book Publishing An Encyclopedia.
- Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century.
- Reader's Guide to American History.
- Reader's Guide to the History of Science.
- Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies
- Reader's Guide to Literature in English.
- Reader's Guide to Military History.
- Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences.
- ''Reference Guide to Russian Literature.''