Bedford-St. Martin's

Bedford Publishers is an American publishing company specializing in humanities college textbooks. Bedford Publishers is part of the Bedford, Freeman, and Worth Publishing group owned by Macmillan, which is in turn owned by the Stuttgart-based Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Its offices are in Boston and New York City.

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