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Editorial Director: Birgit Otte
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Editor: Dr. Sabine Lammers
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About the Hamburger Edition
Hamburger Edition, the publishing house of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research established in 1994, presents the results of research and debates initiated by the institute and its partners. We complement this core area of our publishing activities with German-language texts by scholars from other national and international research contexts and institutions. We also prepare translations of stimulating empirical and theoretical studies on issues in contemporary history, social science, and current affairs, some of which was first published in other languages, introducing work by authors like Zygmunt Bauman, Robert Castel, Alison Des Forges, and Mark Juergensmeyer to German readers.
Books and authors from Hamburger Edition have won numerous honors—among them the Fraenkel Prize, Prince of Asturias Award, Norbert Elias Prize, Bruno Kreisky Prize, and the Willi Paul Adams Award—and have been shortlisted for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair. The translations rights to our books have been acquired by prestigious international partners such as Yale University Press, Rosspen, Peking University Press, and Gallimard.
Our books enrich and provoke academic exchange beyond the borders of individual disciplines as well as public debates—whether they examine the recent history of mass violence and human rights or security policy, explore ideas about communities and nations from the local to the global level, or retrace and elucidate developments in social policy, labor relations, or protest movements.
Books from the Hamburger Edition are available in bookstores in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria and can also be ordered directly via this website.
Beginning in September 2010, new releases and numerous backlist titles will also be on sale as e-books.
Submissions
If you would like to submit a book proposal to Hamburger Edition, please follow these guidelines:
- We ask you to check before making any submissions whether your text fits our publishing program of academic and serious non-fiction.
- Please send a short prospectus and a sample chapter as a hard copy; do not send the complete manuscript unless we contact you and ask you to do so.
- Do not send handwritten texts, CDs, or emails and email attachments.
- We are unable to assume responsibility for any material sent to us. Please do not send original materials and keep a copy of everything you send.
- If you would like to have your manuscript returned to you, please include a self-addressed stamped envelope.
- We regret that we are unable to answer phone, email, or letter queries regarding the status of unsolicited proposals sent to our office.
We review all proposals, solicited and unsolicited. However, because of the large numbers of submissions received, this process may take as much as three months. For the same reason, we are unfortunately unable to send authors whose book proposals are not accepted a detailed explanation of the reasons for our decision.