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Pluto Press is a British independent book publisher based in London and is distributed in the United States by University of Chicago Press, an international academic publishing company. It has been "active for 40 years and independent since 1979." Pluto Press publishes "progressive critical thinking across politics and the social sciences, with an emphasis on the fields of Politics, Current Affairs, International Studies. Middle East Studies, Political Theory, Media Studies, Anthropology, Development." It has published works by Karl Marx, Frantz Fanon, Noam Chomsky, Bell Hooks, Edward Said, Augusto Boal, Vandana Shiva, Susan George, Ilan Pappé, Nick Robins, Graham Turner, Alastair Crooke, Gabriel Kolko, Hamid Dabashi, Tommy McKearney, Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, Syed Saleem Shahzad, David Cronin, John Holloway, Euclid Tsakalotos and Jonathan Cook.〔 ==History: 1969-87== Pluto Press was set up in London by Richard Kuper in 1969 to support and promote political debate and activism. Its left-wing agenda stemmed from its early association with the International Socialists, which broadened to a wider revolutionary left in 1972 when Nina and Michael Kidron〔("Michael Kidron and Richard Kuper" ). ''Revolutionary History'', Vol. 8, No. 3, 2003, pp. 281–85. Retrieved 7 February 2013.〕〔("Michael Kidron and Pluto Press" ). Retrieved 7 February 2013〕〔("Obituary: Michael Kidron" ). Retrieved 8 February 2013〕 joined. Anne Benewick and Ric Sissons joined soon after, and the team eventually reached 16 in number. Publishing extensively in the areas of movement history, race politics, Ireland, feminism and sexual politics, early successes included Sheila Rowbotham’s ''Hidden from History: 300 years of women’s oppression and the fight against it''.〔("Analysis of ''Hidden from History'' by Andy Blunden''" ). From www.marxists.org Retrieved 8 February 2013.〕 and Patrick Kinnersley’s ''Hazards of Work''. Series published during this period include: the ''Workers’ Handbooks''; the ''Marxism Series'': ''Ideas in Action''; ''Militarism, State and Society'' series; ''Pluto Plays''; ''Arguments for Socialism''; ''Pluto Crime'';〔("Images of the Pluto Crime Series covers" ). Retrieved 7 February 2013.〕 ''Liberation Classics'' in the 1980s; and the ''Big Red Diaries''.〔("For images of some of the ''Big Red Diary'' see" ). Retrieved 8 February 2013.〕 The most successful was the ''State of the World Atlas'' series by Michael Kidron & Ronald Segal.〔("Ronald Segal Obituary" ). ''The Guardian'', 26 February 2008. Retrieved 7 February 2013.〕 – visual encapsulations of major social and political trends – which were created and produced by Pluto Press and published by Pan Books. The target readership was reached by selling directly to trades unions, women's organizations and networks, student unions, and theatre audiences as well as through the network of radical bookshops that emerged in the 1970s.〔("A note on radical bookshops in the UK" ). Retrieved 8 February 2013.〕 Pluto Press became a distributor and co-publisher of titles generated by Urizen Books〔("Artscritic blogspot: note on Urizen Books" ). Retrieved 6 February 2013.〕 and South End Press〔("www.zcommunications.org: note on South End Press" ). Retrieved 6 February 2013.〕 in the USA, and Ink Links〔("List of Ink Link publications" ). Retrieved 8 February 2013.〕 in the UK, as well as distributor for Counter-Information Services, History Workshop, ''Feminist Review'' and others. A trade sales organization, Volume Sales, was set up in partnership with Allison & Busby, under the direction of Ric Sissons. New departures in publishing included working with Max Stafford-Clark and the Royal Court Theatre to encourage theatre-goers to read play scripts by printing programmes that included the entire play.〔Caryl Churchill Biography (lists Pluto Press titles ). Retrieved 8 February 2013〕〔Snoo Wilson Biography (lists Pluto Press titles ). Retrieved 8 February 2013.〕 In 1987 Pluto Press was bought by Roger van Zwanenberg and Norman Drake. Drake later sold his shares to van Zwanenberg. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pluto Press」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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