Left Coast Press, Inc., is a new publisher of academic and professional materials in the humanities, social sciences, and related disciplines. We produce a wide range of products in a limited number of fields so as to meet as many of the informational needs in our selected fields as possible.
Left Coast was launched in March 2005 by Mitch Allen, founder and former publisher of AltaMira Press, and former executive editor of Sage Publications. Left Coast publishes for scholars and students in academic settings, professionals in cultural institutions, and informed readers in the wider world. We distinguish ourselves by specializing in providing practical material to those who are putting the humanities and social sciences into practice. These include state and local historians, museum specialists, historic preservationists, cultural resources managers and archaeologists, environmental professionals, cultural policy analysts, educators, and applied anthropologists, among others. Our books are distributed in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean by University of Arizona Press, in Canada by University of British Columbia Press, and outside the Americas by Berg Publishers. Journals are distributed by Left Coast Press, Inc.
Please note that we are unrelated to Dorothy Yule's Left Coast Press, publisher of limited-edition, handmade artist's books. She can be reached at www.leftcoastpress.com.
In the popular media, "Left Coast" is used as a geographic, cultural, or political designation. For us, Left Coast represents our location in the San Francisco Bay Area, a region famous for fostering new, progressive ideas and incubating dynamic, innovative organizations for over a century. While we tote many decades of publishing experience around with us, we retain open minds about what the world of scholarly and professional publishing can and should be in the future. You might say that we have the flavor of California's Left Coast thinking but without the fog.