Imprints include Rowman & Littlefield, University Press of America, AltaMira, Lexington Books, Austin & Winfield, Ardsley House, Barnes & Noble Books, Scarecrow Press, Scarecrow Education, Fallen Leaf Press, and Madison House.

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Rowman & Littlefield was founded in 1949 by Walter Rowman and Arthur W. Littlefield, who also founded the founder Barnes & Noble College Outline series. The company specialized in academic books in the social sciences and the humanities.

Rowman & Littlefield touts itself to authors as having "the breadth and reach of a large publishing operation without sacrificing the personal attention of a smaller publishing house." College marketing includes campus travelers and telemarketers. A related company, National Book Network, reaches chain and independent booksellers throughout North America. he company has sales offices in Canada and Britain.

In the 1990s, an acquisitions and marketing team located in Maryland and Colorado widened Rowman & Littlefield's college textbook, general interest academic, and scholarly lists.

In the 1990s, Rowman & Littlefield acquired numerous small, mostly academic publishing houses under the umbrella Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. These became imprints. The imprints with the year that Rowman acquired them:

Madison House General Hall Scarecrow Education Fallen Leaf Books AltaMira Lexington Books Ardsley House Scarecrow Press Barnes & Noble Books

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