Peter Lang publishes over 1,100 academic titles annually, both in print and digital formats, with a backlist of over 40,000 books.[6] It has its complete online journals collection available on Ingentaconnect,[5] and distributes its digital textbooks globally through Kortext.[7]
Areas of publication
The company specializes in the following twelve subject areas:[4]
Economics and Management
Education
English Language and Literatures
German Language and Literatures
History
Law
Linguistics
Media and Communication
Philosophy
Politics
Romance Languages and Literatures
Theology
History
The company was founded in Frankfurt am Main in 1970 by Swiss editor Peter Lang. Since 1982 it has an American subsidiary, Peter Lang Publishing USA, specializing in textbooks for classroom use in education,[8] media and communication, and Black studies, as well as monographs in the humanities and social sciences.[9][10]