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Swiss academic publisher
Peter Lang is an academic publisher specializing in the humanities and social sciences. It has its headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, with offices in Berlin, Brussels, Chennai, New York, and Oxford. Peter Lang publishes over 1,100 academic titles annually, both in print and digital formats, with a backlist of over 40,000 books.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
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Peter Lang is an academic publisher specializing in the humanities and social sciences. It has its headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, with offices in Berlin, Brussels, Chennai, New York, and Oxford.2
The company was founded in Frankfurt am Main in 1970 by Swiss editor Peter Lang. Since 1982 it has had an American subsidiary, Peter Lang Publishing USA, specializing in textbooks for classroom use in education, media and communication, and Black studies, as well as monographs in the humanities and social sciences.
Peter Lang was acquired in 2015 through a management buyout led by Chairman Claude Béglé.
From Wikipedia’s article on Peter Lang (publisher), shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4
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