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July 06, 2023

Left Coast Press was an independent, scholarly publishing house specializing in social sciences and humanities. Based in Walnut Creek, California, and distributed globally, the company published approximately 500 books between 2005 and 2016 before the company was purchased by Routledge, who rebranded them as Routledge books.[1] The company also published 13 scholarly journals before its journals division was sold in 2012 to Maney Publishing,[2] now part of Taylor & Francis.

Founded by Mitchell Allen, formerly Executive Editor at Sage Publications and Publisher of AltaMira Press, and Ariadne Prater, an administrator at University of California Berkeley, the company focused on publishing anthropology, archaeology, museum studies, and qualitative methods. Within these fields, products included research monographs, edited collections, reference books, textbooks, scholarly comic books, supplemental texts, DVDs, and scholarly journals. Almost all Left Coast titles were available both in paper and ebook form. Distributors included University of Chicago Press (US), University of Arizona Press (US), University of British Columbia Press (Canada), Berg Publishers (Europe), Eurospan (Europe), Footprint Books (Australia).

An unrelated nt.html Left Coast Press, which produces hand printed books, operates in Oakland, California, and is directed by Dorothy Yule.

Archaeology

Left Coast's first season in 2005 included books by archaeologists Brian Fagan,[3] Thomas King,[4] and David Whitley.[5] In 2007, Left Coast became publisher for the UCL Institute of Archaeology, for which they published and distributed 67 titles by 2016.[6] Left Coast also published for the World Archaeological Congress (WAC), including the long-standing One World Archaeology series, a series of research handbooks, and a series on indigenous peoples and archaeology.[7] The largest of Left Coast's lists of titles, the archaeology program had additional series on heritage tourism, cultural resources management, rock art research, historical archaeology, cultural property law, and historical ecology. Left Coast resurrected the defunct Academic Press book series, reissuing such New Archaeology titles as Kent Flannery’s Early Mesoamerican Village,[8] Linda Cordell's Archaeology of the Southwest, and Jane Buikstra’s Bioarchaeology. Among the archaeologists publishing with the press were Paul Bahn, Jeremy Sabloff, Thomas King, Sarah Milledge Nelson, Alice Beck Kehoe, Deborah Pearsall, Lewis Binford, David Lewis-Williams, Ian Hodder, and Michael Shanks.

Indigenous archaeology and cultural resources management were two focuses of the Left Coast program. Left Coast was among the sponsoring organizations for the Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage Project of Simon Fraser University.[9] Among the projects in archaeology was the first book on Black Feminist Archaeology (Battle-Baptiste),[10] descriptions of the excavations at Catalhoyuk written by journalist Michael Balter[11] and another by the site's guard Sadrettin Dural, and a book of archaeological quotations. Left Coast also preserved in print the 7th edition of the oldest archaeological field methods textbook, originally written by Robert Heiser in 1949.[12]

Anthropology

Left Coast published in many of the areas of anthropology, including cultural anthropology, archaeology, and biological anthropology. Its list focused on applied aspects of the field, particularly medical anthropology and business anthropology, in which the publisher had ongoing series. Central to the business anthropology program was the first reference volume on the topic, Handbook of Anthropology in Business (Denny and Sunderland) in 2014.[13] Another focus in anthropology was in Native American and indigenous studies, including books by indigenous scholars such as Gary White Deer, Joe Watkins, Sonya Atalay, and Roger Echo-Hawk.

The company brought to press posthumously a lost work by anthropologist Leslie White, Modern Capitalist Culture, begun in 1959 but not published until 2008.[14] Left Coast's publisher, Mitchell Allen, received an Executive Director's Award of the American Anthropological Association in 2014 for the Press's work in anthropology.[15]

Museum Studies

Left Coast partnered with several organizations to produce works of practical interest to museum professionals: the Museum Education Roundtable,[16] the PEW Center for Arts and Heritage, Te Papa Museum, and the Exploratorium.[17] Authors in the museum research and practice world who published works with the press included Beverly Serrell, Peter Samis, Leslie Bedford, Kathleen MacLean, and Hugh Genoways. John H. Falk and Lynne Dierking's book The Museum Experience was added to the Left Coast list in 2011 and a new edition The Museum Experience Revisited published in 2012.[18] Explorations of visitor experience, interpretive planning, diverse audiences, and career planning were included in the Left Coast titles.

Qualitative Methods

Left Coast was the publisher for the International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry, publishing both its journal and an annual book series out of the Congresses. Founder of the Congress, Norman K. Denzin, was a frequent contributor to the Left Coast list as an editor and author, including his Qualitative Manifesto and a set of 4 books on Native Americans treatment by American culture.

Janice Morse edited two textbook series for Left Coast, which also published a series based out of the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology at the University of Alberta, founded by Morse. She also wrote books on qualitative health research and research design for the Left Coast list.

The newly developed subfield of autoethnography[19] was another element of the qualitative methods list, including the Handbook of Autoethnography, Carolyn Ellis’s texts Revision and Evocative Autoethnography (with Arthur Bochner), and the Writing Lives series.

Max van Manen, moved his six phenomenology[20] titles to Left Coast in 2015, where he then launched the Phenomenology of Practice series. Oral history became another focus of the research methods collection, including the Community Oral History Toolkit and the Practicing Oral History series, edited by Nancy MacKay. Other qualitative methods authors at Left Coast included Yvonna Lincoln, Laurel Richardson, Harry Wolcott, Johnny Saldaña, Jean Clandinin, and Bud Goodall. Left Coast books won book awards from the International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry in five of first seven years the award was presented.

Other Strands of Publication

Left Coast produced books in other social science fields including

Paulo Friere's Pedagogy of Solidarity

WEB DuBois’s Encyclopedia of the Negro prospectus, reissued

Sociologist Richard Gelles’s policy work The Third Lie

John H. Stanfield II's Black Reflective Sociology

Seven books on cultural studies, communication, advertising, tourism, and writing by Arthur Asa Berger

Journals

Beginning in 2006, after taking over publication of the 30-year old Journal of Museum Education, Left Coast launched a pair of new professional journals for the museum field, first with Museums & Social Issues (2006), then Museum History Journal (2008).

In 2009, the Society for California Archaeology chose Left Coast as publisher of a new journal for their organization, California Archaeology.[21] Left Coast launched three new journals for archaeologists: Heritage and Society (2008), Ethnoarchaeology (2009), and Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage (2012). In addition, they secured agreement to assume publication of Kiva, a 75-year old journal of southwest archaeology sponsored by the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society, Lithic Technology, a 35-year old journal of lithics studies, and Ñawpa Pacha, a 30-year old journal of Andean archaeology sponsored by the Institute of Andean Studies.

Left Coast partnered with the International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry to create the International Review of Qualitative Inquiry in 2008[22] and launched a second qualitative journal, Qualitative Communication Research (now Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, University of California Press) in 2012.

In 2012, the Left Coast list of journals was transferred to Maney Publishing in the United Kingdom, except for the qualitative journals, which were transferred to University of California Press. Maney was purchased by Taylor & Francis in 2015, including the Left Coast journals.

References

  1. ^ "Newsletters | Books+Publishing". www.booksandpublishing.com.au.
  2. ^ "Maney Publishing acquires Left Coast Press, Inc. journals | STM Publishing News".
  3. ^ Moshenka, G. "Review of Writing Archaeology," Papers of the Institute of Archaeology 18 (2007) pp. 190-192
  4. ^ Craib, J. "Review of Doing Archaeology," Australian Archaeology 65 (2007) p. 56
  5. ^ Gendron, D. "Review of Introduction to Rock Art Research," Canadian Journal of Archaeology 31: 2 (2007) 261-263
  6. ^ Whitehouse, R. "Peter and Institute Publications," Archaeology International 10, p 21.
  7. ^ "Publications – World Archaeological Congress".
  8. ^ Wauhope, R. "Review of The Early Mesoamerican Village," American Antiquity 42:4 (1977), 656-659
  9. ^ "Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage | Theory, Practice, Policy, Ethics".
  10. ^ Little, B. "Review of Black Feminist Archaeology," Northeast Historical Archaeology 39:9 (2010)
  11. ^ Fairbairn, A. "Review of The Goddess and the Bull", Australian Archaeology 64 (2007), pp. 54-56
  12. ^ "NPS Archeology Program: Archeology for Interpreters". www.nps.gov.
  13. ^ "Rita Denny and Patricia Sunderland, "Handbook of Anthropology in…". New Books Network.
  14. ^ [1][dead link]
  15. ^ American Anthropological Association (2014). "Changing the Atmosphere: 2014 American Anthropological Association Annual Report" (PDF). American Anthropological Association.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  16. ^ Nevins, E. "Visual History of the Journal of Museum education," JME40 Blog Mar 31, 2015, [2]
  17. ^ "About the publishing program". www.exploratorium.edu. Retrieved December 5, 2020.
  18. ^ Falk/Dierking, The Museum Experience Revisited, Schnitzler Museum of Art lecture March 17, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDP87JEC3D4
  19. ^ Ellis, Carolyn (January 2011). "Autoethnography: An Overview". Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research. 12 (1). doi:10.17169/fqs-12.1.1589. Retrieved November 6, 2019.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  20. ^ van Maanen, Max (April 2, 2017). "Phenomenology in its Original Sense". Qualitative Health Research. 27:6 (6): 810–825. doi:10.1177/1049732317699381. PMID 28682720 – via Sage.
  21. ^ Allen, Mark. 2008. President's Message. SCA Newsletter 42:3 September, p 3
  22. ^ Conference Program, International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry, 2009, p. 6

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remove this template message Left Coast Press was an independent scholarly publishing house specializing in social sciences and humanities Based in Walnut Creek California and distributed globally the company published approximately 500 books between 2005 and 2016 before the company was purchased by Routledge who rebranded them as Routledge books 1 The company also published 13 scholarly journals before its journals division was sold in 2012 to Maney Publishing 2 now part of Taylor amp Francis Founded by Mitchell Allen formerly Executive Editor at Sage Publications and Publisher of AltaMira Press and Ariadne Prater an administrator at University of California Berkeley the company focused on publishing anthropology archaeology museum studies and qualitative methods Within these fields products included research monographs edited collections reference books textbooks scholarly comic books supplemental texts DVDs and scholarly journals Almost all Left Coast titles were available both in paper and ebook form Distributors included University of Chicago Press US University of Arizona Press US University of British Columbia Press Canada Berg Publishers Europe Eurospan Europe Footprint Books Australia An unrelated nt html Left Coast Press which produces hand printed books operates in Oakland California and is directed by Dorothy Yule Contents 1 Archaeology 2 Anthropology 3 Museum Studies 4 Qualitative Methods 5 Other Strands of Publication 6 Journals 7 ReferencesArchaeology EditLeft Coast s first season in 2005 included books by archaeologists Brian Fagan 3 Thomas King 4 and David Whitley 5 In 2007 Left Coast became publisher for the UCL Institute of Archaeology for which they published and distributed 67 titles by 2016 6 Left Coast also published for the World Archaeological Congress WAC including the long standing One World Archaeology series a series of research handbooks and a series on indigenous peoples and archaeology 7 The largest of Left Coast s lists of titles the archaeology program had additional series on heritage tourism cultural resources management rock art research historical archaeology cultural property law and historical ecology Left Coast resurrected the defunct Academic Press book series reissuing such New Archaeology titles as Kent Flannery s Early Mesoamerican Village 8 Linda Cordell s Archaeology of the Southwest and Jane Buikstra s Bioarchaeology Among the archaeologists publishing with the press were Paul Bahn Jeremy Sabloff Thomas King Sarah Milledge Nelson Alice Beck Kehoe Deborah Pearsall Lewis Binford David Lewis Williams Ian Hodder and Michael Shanks Indigenous archaeology and cultural resources management were two focuses of the Left Coast program Left Coast was among the sponsoring organizations for the Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage Project of Simon Fraser University 9 Among the projects in archaeology was the first book on Black Feminist Archaeology Battle Baptiste 10 descriptions of the excavations at Catalhoyuk written by journalist Michael Balter 11 and another by the site s guard Sadrettin Dural and a book of archaeological quotations Left Coast also preserved in print the 7th edition of the oldest archaeological field methods textbook originally written by Robert Heiser in 1949 12 Anthropology EditLeft Coast published in many of the areas of anthropology including cultural anthropology archaeology and biological anthropology Its list focused on applied aspects of the field particularly medical anthropology and business anthropology in which the publisher had ongoing series Central to the business anthropology program was the first reference volume on the topic Handbook of Anthropology in Business Denny and Sunderland in 2014 13 Another focus in anthropology was in Native American and indigenous studies including books by indigenous scholars such as Gary White Deer Joe Watkins Sonya Atalay and Roger Echo Hawk The company brought to press posthumously a lost work by anthropologist Leslie White Modern Capitalist Culture begun in 1959 but not published until 2008 14 Left Coast s publisher Mitchell Allen received an Executive Director s Award of the American Anthropological Association in 2014 for the Press s work in anthropology 15 Museum Studies EditLeft Coast partnered with several organizations to produce works of practical interest to museum professionals the Museum Education Roundtable 16 the PEW Center for Arts and Heritage Te Papa Museum and the Exploratorium 17 Authors in the museum research and practice world who published works with the press included Beverly Serrell Peter Samis Leslie Bedford Kathleen MacLean and Hugh Genoways John H Falk and Lynne Dierking s book The Museum Experience was added to the Left Coast list in 2011 and a new edition The Museum Experience Revisited published in 2012 18 Explorations of visitor experience interpretive planning diverse audiences and career planning were included in the Left Coast titles Qualitative Methods EditLeft Coast was the publisher for the International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry publishing both its journal and an annual book series out of the Congresses Founder of the Congress Norman K Denzin was a frequent contributor to the Left Coast list as an editor and author including his Qualitative Manifesto and a set of 4 books on Native Americans treatment by American culture Janice Morse edited two textbook series for Left Coast which also published a series based out of the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology at the University of Alberta founded by Morse She also wrote books on qualitative health research and research design for the Left Coast list The newly developed subfield of autoethnography 19 was another element of the qualitative methods list including the Handbook of Autoethnography Carolyn Ellis s texts Revision and Evocative Autoethnography with Arthur Bochner and the Writing Lives series Max van Manen moved his six phenomenology 20 titles to Left Coast in 2015 where he then launched the Phenomenology of Practice series Oral history became another focus of the research methods collection including the Community Oral History Toolkit and the Practicing Oral History series edited by Nancy MacKay Other qualitative methods authors at Left Coast included Yvonna Lincoln Laurel Richardson Harry Wolcott Johnny Saldana Jean Clandinin and Bud Goodall Left Coast books won book awards from the International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry in five of first seven years the award was presented Other Strands of Publication EditLeft Coast produced books in other social science fields includingPaulo Friere s Pedagogy of SolidarityWEB DuBois s Encyclopedia of the Negro prospectus reissuedSociologist Richard Gelles s policy work The Third LieJohn H Stanfield II s Black Reflective SociologySeven books on cultural studies communication advertising tourism and writing by Arthur Asa BergerJournals EditBeginning in 2006 after taking over publication of the 30 year old Journal of Museum Education Left Coast launched a pair of new professional journals for the museum field first with Museums amp Social Issues 2006 then Museum History Journal 2008 In 2009 the Society for California Archaeology chose Left Coast as publisher of a new journal for their organization California Archaeology 21 Left Coast launched three new journals for archaeologists Heritage and Society 2008 Ethnoarchaeology 2009 and Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage 2012 In addition they secured agreement to assume publication of Kiva a 75 year old journal of southwest archaeology sponsored by the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society Lithic Technology a 35 year old journal of lithics studies and Nawpa Pacha a 30 year old journal of Andean archaeology sponsored by the Institute of Andean Studies Left Coast partnered with the International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry to create the International Review of Qualitative Inquiry in 2008 22 and launched a second qualitative journal Qualitative Communication Research now Departures in Critical Qualitative Research University of California Press in 2012 In 2012 the Left Coast list of journals was transferred to Maney Publishing in the United Kingdom except for the qualitative journals which were transferred to University of California Press Maney was purchased by Taylor amp Francis in 2015 including the Left Coast journals References Edit Newsletters Books Publishing www booksandpublishing com au Maney Publishing acquires Left Coast Press Inc journals STM Publishing News Moshenka G Review of Writing Archaeology Papers of the Institute of Archaeology 18 2007 pp 190 192 Craib J Review of Doing Archaeology Australian Archaeology 65 2007 p 56 Gendron D Review of Introduction to Rock Art Research Canadian Journal of Archaeology 31 2 2007 261 263 Whitehouse R Peter and Institute Publications Archaeology International 10 p 21 Publications World Archaeological Congress Wauhope R Review of The Early Mesoamerican Village American Antiquity 42 4 1977 656 659 Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage Theory Practice Policy Ethics Little B Review of Black Feminist Archaeology Northeast Historical Archaeology 39 9 2010 Fairbairn A Review of The Goddess and the Bull Australian Archaeology 64 2007 pp 54 56 NPS Archeology Program Archeology for Interpreters www nps gov Rita Denny and Patricia Sunderland Handbook of Anthropology in New Books Network 1 dead link American Anthropological Association 2014 Changing the Atmosphere 2014 American Anthropological Association Annual Report PDF American Anthropological Association a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link Nevins E Visual History of the Journal of Museum education JME40 Blog Mar 31 2015 2 About the publishing program www exploratorium edu Retrieved December 5 2020 Falk Dierking The Museum Experience Revisited Schnitzler Museum of Art lecture March 17 2013 https www youtube com watch v XDP87JEC3D4 Ellis Carolyn January 2011 Autoethnography An Overview Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung Forum Qualitative Social Research 12 1 doi 10 17169 fqs 12 1 1589 Retrieved November 6 2019 a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a CS1 maint url status link van Maanen Max April 2 2017 Phenomenology in its Original Sense Qualitative Health Research 27 6 6 810 825 doi 10 1177 1049732317699381 PMID 28682720 via Sage Allen Mark 2008 President s Message SCA Newsletter 42 3 September p 3 Conference Program International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry 2009 p 6 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Left Coast Press amp oldid 1130869822, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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