The University of Delaware Press (UDP) is a publishing house and a department of the University of Delaware

University of Delaware

The university is organized into seven colleges:* College of Agriculture and Natural Resources* College of Arts and Sciences* Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics* College of Earth, Ocean and Environment* College of Education and Human Development...

 in the United States

United States

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, whose main campus is at Newark, Delaware

Newark, Delaware

Newark is an American city in New Castle County, Delaware, west-southwest of Wilmington. According to the 2010 Census, the population of the city is 31,454. Newark is the home of the University of Delaware.- History :...

, where the University Press is also based.

Established in the early 1970s, the UDP published few books until 1975, when it joined the Associated University Presses

Associated University Presses

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 (AUP) consortium. This allowed the UDP to choose works to publish under its imprint and control, while the AUP takes charge of production and distribution. When Associated University Presses ceased operating in 2010, a new distribution agreement was struck with Rowman & Littlefield

Rowman & Littlefield

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an independent publishing house founded in 1949. Under several imprints, the company offers scholarly books and journals for the academic market, as well as trade books. The company also owns a book distributor, National Book Network...

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The University of Delaware Press publishes books in all scholarly fields, but its strengths are in literary studies, eighteenth century studies, French literature

French literature

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, history

History

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, the history of art

History of art

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, and studies of Delaware

Delaware

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 and the Eastern Shore

Eastern Shore

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