The Edwin Mellen Press, based in Lewiston, New York

Lewiston, New York

Lewiston is a village in Niagara County, New York, United States. The population was 2,781 at the 2000 census. The village is named after Morgan Lewis, an early 19th-century governor of New York. It is part of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area.The Village of Lewiston,...

 is a niche publisher of scholarly material and advanced research in the humanities

Humanities

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 and social sciences

Social sciences

Social science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...

. They publish a variety of tomes including monograph

Monograph

A monograph is a work of writing upon a single subject, usually by a single author.It is often a scholarly essay or learned treatise, and may be released in the manner of a book or journal article. It is by definition a single document that forms a complete text in itself...

s, bibliographies, concordance

Concordance

Concordance can mean:* Concordance , a list of words used in a body of work, with their immediate contexts* Concordance , the presence of the same trait in both members of a pair of twins...

s, dictionaries, conference proceedings

Proceedings

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, dissertations, and reference sets. Other publications include academic journals, research from scholarly institutes and a large number of continuing series. Edwin Mellen Press also publishes under two other imprints, Mellen Biblical Press and Mellen Poetry Press.

While their texts are held by research libraries world-wide, the company typically limits the initial printing of each title to 300 copies but titles are guaranteed to stay perpetually in print.
Mellen currently has almost 7,000 books in print.

The press was founded by Dr. Herbert Richardson and is named after his maternal grandfather. Since 1973, it has published the work of more than eight thousand scholars. Edwin Mellen Press also has an office at Lampeter

Lampeter

Lampeter is a town in Ceredigion, South West Wales, lying at the confluence of the River Teifi and the Afon Dulas.-Demographics:At the 2001 National Census, the population was 2894. Lampeter is therefore the smallest university town in both Wales and the United Kingdom...

, Wales

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

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Example work: In 2004, Edwin Mellen published a revised doctoral dissertation, Response of Kentucky to the Mexican War, 1846-1848, written earlier by the Kentucky

Kentucky

The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...

 historian

Historian

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 Damon R. Eubank

Damon R. Eubank

Damon R. Eubank is an historian at Campbellsville University in Campbellsville, Kentucky, principally known for his study of the family of U.S. Senator John J. Crittenden, In the Shadow of the Patriarch: The John J...

 at Mississippi State University

Mississippi State University

The Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science commonly known as Mississippi State University is a land-grant university located in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, United States, partially in the town of Starkville and partially in an unincorporated area...

 in Starkville, Mississippi

Starkville, Mississippi

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 21,869 people, 9,462 households, and 4,721 families residing in the city. The population density was 851.4 people per square mile . There were 10,191 housing units at an average density of 396.7 per square mile...

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