Continuum International was created in 1999 with the merger of the
Cassell academic and religious lists (including
Geoffrey Chapman, Mansell, Mowbray,
Pinter, and Leicester University Press imprints) and the Continuum Publishing Company, founded in New York in 1980. The academic publishing programme was focused on the
humanities, especially the fields of philosophy, film and music, literature, education,
linguistics, theology, and
biblical studies. Continuum published Paulo Freire's seminal
Pedagogy of the Oppressed and music criticism series
33 1/3. Continuum acquired
Athlone Press, which was founded in 1948 as the
University of London publishing house and sold to the
Bemrose Corporation in 1979. In 2003, Continuum acquired the London-based Hambledon & London (
Sunday Times Small Publisher of the Year 2001–02), a publisher of trade history for the general reader. == Imprints ==