AcademicaPress is an independent scholarly press specializing in monographs, revised dissertations, primary sources, bibliographies, textbooks, and other books reflecting scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Our imprint, Maunsel & Co., specializes in scholarly research in Irish studies. Academica seeks to publish the very best research monographs and studies produced by the international academic community. We are particularly interested in reviewing works in social science, literature & language and literature, and Irish studies. Our titles are peer-reviewed and published without subsidy. We believe that a successful publication is based on a wide distribution of each work. Since advance research is carried out in university centers, the key instrument for the acquisi