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If you had edited a text – roughly of political theory – that has not been in print since the early eighteenth century and this editing involved the usual things: cross-referencing across a number of editions, tracking down the sources, finding translations, correcting errors, explaining obsolete or obscure terms, etc. Where would you seek to publish it? It is too short for independent publication as a monograph, but a bit long (roughly 12,000 words) for a journal. History of Political Thought, it seems, doesn’t publish edited primary sources all that often.

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  1. jbraun wrote:

    I can’t speak as one who has published things in the past, but as a student of sometimes out-of-print/hard-to-find texts, I think _nothing_ is too short for a monograph. Besides, you can provide an introduction to both pad the text and situate readers (two non-nefarious wins in one effort).

    I’ve seen Hackett publish stuff like this before. They’re not a university press, but they do have a decent reputation I think.

    Good luck in any event.

    Saturday, November 1, 2008 at 2:53 pm | Permalink

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