Chronos Verlag (Switzerland)
| Chronos Verlag AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1985 |
| Seat | Zurich , Switzerland |
| management | Hans-Rudolf Wiedmer ( Managing Director and Board of Directors ) |
| Branch | publishing company |
| Website | www.chronos-verlag.ch |
The Chronos Verlag AG is a Swiss publishing house based in Zurich .
Initially specialized in the publication of books from the fields of economic and social history , today's publishing program includes specialist and non-fiction books from different subject areas. Chronos Verlag also publishes the journal “ Traverse ”, which specializes in historical and socio-political topics .
history
The publishing house was founded in 1985 by two historians as "Chronos Verlag für Geschichte". The first publications included works from the university environment, including the four-volume work “Workers and the Economy in Switzerland 1880–1914”, co-authored and edited by Erich Gruner .
Chronos Verlag then published further books on economic and social history topics, including publications such as the studies of the Independent Expert Commission Switzerland - Second World War (ICE). Significant titles include “Switzerland and the Jews 1933–1945” by Jacques Picard , “Europe and Switzerland 1945–1950” by Hans Ulrich Jost and “In the Land of Blood and Tears” by Jakob Künzler .
From the 1990s the publishing house began to expand its publishing program to include specialist and non-fiction books. At the same time, the area of economic and social history was supplemented with cultural-historical and political topics. Chronos Verlag has published the journal Traverse, aimed at historical researchers, three times a year since 1994. With 58 published titles, the publishing house reached its peak in book production in 2001. The publisher has a total of more than 900 titles.