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We publish encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, primary source collections, balanced overviews of key topics, regional reference guides, and seminal multi-volume reference sets, including our flagship Cultural Histories.

Bloomsbury’s reference works offer definitive, trustworthy and citable sources of knowledge for students, faculty and researchers, and provide a solid foundation for an academic library.

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