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Pressing On
In its 125-year history, the Press has produced a number of
landmark publications. Herewith a representative
sample...
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American Journal of Mathematics, the periodical that began
it all, is still published six times a year by the Press.
From 1932 to 1957, the Press issued 11 volumes of The Works of
Edmund Spenser: A Variorum Edition.
In 1956, the Press published Alexandre Koyré's From the
Closed World to the Infinite Universe.
Ernest P. Walker's definitive Mammals of the World, which
first appeared in 1964, has undergone several revisions.
Four years later, the Press brought out Jacques Lacan's classic
work on Freud, The Language of the Self.
The first English translation of Jacques Derrida's revolutionary
Of Grammatology appeared in 1977.
Carlo Ginzburg's seminal work of microhistory, The Cheese and
the Worms, was published three years later.
The Press inaugurates its extraordinarily successful series of
consumer health titles with The 36-Hour Day, in 1981.
J. William Harris' Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and Sea
Island Society in the Age of Segregation is a finalist for
the 2002 Pulitzer Prize.