Talk:Princeton University Press

Bollingen Series
Just a note about the inclusion (See also section) of "Bollingen Press": it's properly called the Bollingen Series. Athaenara  (talk)  11:25, 15 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Nevermind, fixed it myself & wikified a bit. This article (which already had good content and structure) needs more year-of-publication dates where those are still missing for books and papers.   Athaenara  04:04, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Influential publications
The external link, recently added, to A Century in Books, includes a description of 100 of the Press's most important books (including each of those listed here). It should allay the concerns of the wiki editor who feels that "influential" cannot describe some books of which s/he is not yet aware. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Girl2k (talk • contribs) 05:35, 25 January 2007 (UTC).
 * That link * (also in external links) merely echoes the Press about itself: one Press publication asserts the influence of other Press publications. Do you see how this is unencyclopedic?  What's needed is confirmation "from sources that are reliable and independent of the subject itself" (—WP:NOTE).   — Athænara   ✉  07:33, 25 January 2007 (UTC) * A Century in Books: Princeton University Press 1905-2005 (... prices, shopping cart, etc.)


 * But the wiki editor herself believed that some are "obviously" influential (without citation) ... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Girl2k (talk • contribs) 17:55, 21 February 2007 (UTC)


 * To what does this specifically refer? — Athænara   ✉  20:43, 21 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry -- to the repeated request for citation for describing books here as "influential." It was stated before on here -- when the page was flagged as in need of citation -- that some in the list were obviously influential but that others weren't and therefore they should have citations to prove they are influential. I don't see that as typical wikipedia practice. Click on any of the authors and you'll find the books referenced, some even as "masterpieces" without citations to prove such assertions. Anyhow, that's all I have to say about it. --Girl2k 20:43, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Princeton Architectural Press?
In writing another article I've discovered that a link to Princeton Architectural Press is redirected to this article. Should this be the case? I had thought Princeton Architectural Press was a different entity than the Princeton University Press. http://www.papress.com Anyone know for sure? Arxiloxos (talk) 05:01, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Its about page doesn't mention the University. The redirect, according to its history, was created by user Jahsonic in April 2007 and links to nearly twenty articles.   — Athaenara  ✉  05:40, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Followup: I investigated this more thoroughly today, confirmed that there is no connection between the NYC-based architectural publisher and PUP, and deleted the redirect page as per Criteria for speedy deletion: redirects to deleted, nonexistent or invalid target. — Athaenara  ✉  00:56, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you for this. I have started a replacement page with correct information about Princeton Architectural Press.Arxiloxos (talk) 21:17, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
 * You are welcome, and good job on the publisher stub. — Athaenara  ✉  00:36, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Some proposed changes
A Brief History of Princeton University Press

Princeton University Press is an independent nonprofit publisher with close ties to Princeton University. The press was founded in 1905 by a recent Princeton graduate, Whitney Darrow, with financial support from another Princetonian, Charles Scribner II of the New York publisher Charles Scribner’s Sons. Beginning as a small, for-profit printer, Princeton University Press was reincorporated as a nonprofit in 1910 and gradually developed into a full-fledged book publisher. Since 1911, the press has been headquartered in a purpose-built gothic-style building designed by Ernest Flagg, the architect of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The design of press’s building, which was named the Scribner Building in 1965, was inspired by the Plantin-Moretus Museum, a printing museum in Antwerp, Belgium. Princeton University Press established a European office, in Woodstock, England, north of Oxford, in 1999, and opened an additional office, in Beijing, in early 2017.

Princeton University Press is financially independent, with its own endowment, but the press has always been closely tied to Princeton University. The president of the university appoints the five faculty members that serve on the press’s editorial board. In addition, ten of the fifteen members of the press’s board of trustees must have a Princeton University connection.

The press has had seven directors: Whitney Darrow (1905–1917); Paul G. Tomlinson (1917–1938); Joseph Brandt (1938–1941); Datus C. Smith (1942–1952); Herbert S. Bailey Jr. (1954–1986); Walter H. Lippincott (1986–2005); and Peter J. Dougherty (2005–present). In December 2016, Peter Dougherty announced his plan to retire at the end of 2017, and in early 2017 a Princeton University search committee began looking for a new director. On May 30, 2017, the Press announced that Christie Henry, the Editorial Director of Sciences, Social Sciences, and Reference at the University of Chicago Press, would become Princeton University Press’s next director, effective in September 2017.

Princeton University Press has no connection to the New York-based Princeton Architectural Press.

Collected works and papers projects

Princeton University Press is the publisher of a number of collected works and collected papers projects, including The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, Kierkegaard’s Writings, Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, The Complete Works of Aristotle, and The Collected Works of Spinoza.

The Digital Einstein Papers

In December 2014, Princeton University Press, working with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Einstein Papers Project at the California Institute of Technology, launched The Digital Einstein Papers, an online platform that provides open access to The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein.

The Bollingen Series

In 1969, the Press acquired the Bollingen Series from Pantheon Books and the Bollingen Foundation. The series was started in 1940 by Paul and Mary Mellon and includes many books in psychology, mythology, archaeology, art history, religion, literature, and related fields. It includes the collected works of C. G. Jung, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Paul Valéry. The series also includes what became some of Princeton University Press’s bestselling books, including Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces and the Wilhelm/Baynes translation of The “I Ching,” or Book of Changes. Other notable titles in the series include the Collected Poems of Saint-John Perse, the 1960 Nobel Laureate in poetry; Kenneth Clark’s The Nude; E. H. Gombrich’s Art and Illusion; and Vladimir Nabokov’s four-volume translation of, and commentary on, Aleksandr Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin. The Bollingen Series was largely completed in 2002 with the publication of its 275th volume, but one part of the series continues to produce new volumes, the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, cosponsored by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Notable books

In 2005, to mark its 100th anniversary, the press published A Century in Books, which listed what the press viewed as one hundred of its most significant titles published between 1905 and 2005. A chronological list of these books may be found here:

http://press.princeton.edu/about_pup/PUP100/book/chronlist.pdf

Princeton University Press authors who have won the Fields Medal or the Nobel Prize include:

Bestsellers and award-winning books

Six Princeton University Press books have won Pulitzer Prizes:


 * George F. Kennan’s Russia Leaves the War (1957)
 * Bray Hammond’s Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War (1958)
 * Herbert Feis’s Between War and Peace (1961)
 * Constance McLaughlin Green’s Washington: Village and Capital (1963)
 * Irwin Unger’s The Greenback Era (1965)Sebastian de Grazia’s Machiavelli in Hell (1989)

A number of Princeton University Press books have appeared on New York Times bestseller lists, including:


 * William G. Bowen and Derek Bok’s The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions (1998)
 * Robert J. Shiller’s Irrational Exuberance (2000)
 * Harry G. Frankfurt’s On Bullshit (2005)
 * Carmen M. Reinhardt and Kenneth S. Rogoff’s This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (2009)
 * Andrew Hodges’s Alan Turing: The Enigma (2014)
 * Robert J. Gordon’s The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (2015)
 * Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott’s Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour (2016)

Some sources, other reading, and links

41Research (talk) 21:01, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * There is a chapter-length history of the press (Ch. 10, “The Coin of the Realm”) in historian James Axtell’s book The Making of Princeton University: From Woodrow Wilson to the Present (Princeton University Press, 2006)
 * A history of Princeton University Press: http://press.princeton.edu/about_pup/puphist.html
 * A Century in Books: Princeton University Press, 1905–2005: http://press.princeton.edu/about_pup/PUP100/centgreeting.html
 * William C. McGuire, Bollingen: An Adventure in Collecting the Past (Princeton University Press, 1982)
 * The Bollingen Series: http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/series/bollingen-series-(general).html
 * http://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/20/books/the-bollingen-adventure.html?pagewanted=all
 * Princeton University Press: http://press.princeton.edu/
 * The Digital Einstein Papers: http://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/
 * ❌ please provide inline citations.   Dr Strauss   talk   14:20, 24 October 2017 (UTC)