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| Didirikan | 1905 |
|---|---|
| Pendiri | Whitney Darrow |
| Negara asal | Amerika Serikat |
| Kantor pusat | Princeton, New Jersey |
| Jenis terbitan | Buku |
| Situs resmi | www |
Princeton University Press adalah penerbit independen yang memiliki kaitan dengan Universitas Princeton. Misinya adalah membebaskan pengetahuan di lingkup akademik dan masyarakat luas.
Pers ini didirikan oleh Whitney Darrow dengan bantuan dana dari Charles Scribner pada tahun 1905 sebagai pers cetak yang melayani Princeton.[1] Buku pertamanya adalah Lectures on Moral Philosophy karya John Witherspoon edisi tahun 1912.[2]
Penghargaan
suntingEnam buku terbitan Princeton University Press memenangi Hadiah Pulitzer.
- Russia Leaves the War karya George F. Kennan (1957)[3]
- Banks and Politics in America From the Revolution to the Civil War karya Bray Hammond (1958)[4]
- Between War and Peace karya Herbert Feis (1961)[5]
- Washington, Village and Capital karya Constance McLaughlin Green (1963)[6]
- The Greenback Era karya Irwin Unger (1965)[7]
- Machiavelli in Hell karya Sebastian de Grazia (1989)[8]
Buku-buku terbitan Princeton University Press juga dianugerahi Bancroft Prize, Nautilus Book Award, dan National Book Award.
Proyek makalah
suntingProyek dokumen bersejarah multivolume yang diterbitkan oleh Princeton meliputi:
- The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein
- The Writings of Henry David Thoreau
- The Papers of Woodrow Wilson (sixty nine volumes)
- The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
- Kierkegaard's Writings
The Papers of Woodrow Wilson disebut sebagai "salah satu prestasi editorial terbesar sepanjang sejarah."[9]
Judul pilihan
sunting- The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History, karya Jill Lepore (2010)
- The Meaning of Relativity karya Albert Einstein (1922)
- Atomic Energy for Military Purposes karya Henry DeWolf Smyth (1945)
- How to Solve It karya George Polya (1945)
- The Open Society and Its Enemies karya Karl Popper (1945)
- The Hero With a Thousand Faces karya Joseph Campbell (1949)
- The Wilhelm/Baynes translation of the I Ching, Bollingen Series XIX. First copyright 1950, 27th printing 1997.
- Anatomy of Criticism karya Northrop Frye (1957)
- Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature karya Richard Rorty (1979)
- QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter karya Richard Feynman (1985)
- The Great Contraction 1929-1933 karya Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz (1963) with a new Introduction karya Peter L. Bernstein (2008)
- Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle karya Stephen Biddle (2004)
Referensi
sunting- ^ "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.
- ^ A History of Princeton University Press Diarsipkan 2011-05-23 di Wayback Machine. (2002)
- ^ The Pulitzer Prizes: 1957 Winners
- ^ The Pulitzer Prizes: 1958 Winners
- ^ The Pulitzer Prizes: 1961 Winners
- ^ The Pulitzer Prizes: 1963 Winners
- ^ The Pulitzer Prizes: 1965 Winners
- ^ The Pulitzer Prizes: 1990 Winners
- ^ Cooper, John Milton (2011). Woodrow Wilson: A Biography. Random House. hlm. 736. Diakses tanggal July 28, 2012.
Bacaan lanjutan
sunting- Banks, Eric (April 1, 2005). "Book of Lists: Princeton University Press at 100". Artforum International.
- A Century in Books:Princeton University Press 1905-2005. 2005. ISBN 9780691122922.
Pranala luar
sunting
- Princeton University Press website
- Princeton University Press: Albert Einstein Web Page Diarsipkan 2008-12-11 di Wayback Machine.
- Princeton University Press: Bollingen Series Diarsipkan 2013-04-20 di Wayback Machine.
- PRINCETON MATH series in Annals of Mathematics Studies Diarsipkan 2012-01-27 di Wayback Machine.
- Princeton University Press Centenary Diarsipkan 2015-03-18 di Wayback Machine.
- Princeton University Press: New in Print Diarsipkan 2016-03-04 di Wayback Machine.
