Junko Takeda is the author of the December volume in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, Iran and a French empire of trade, 1700-1808. In this volume, she explores early modern French relations with Persia in order to highlight connections between Eurasian geopolitics and Atlantic revolutions, and, in doing so, sheds light on the activities … Continue reading
Call for Papers! Sculpture Journal invites proposals for a Special Issue: Sculpture, Iconoclasm and Facing History.
The editorial team of Sculpture Journal invites submissions for a special issue entitled Sculpture, Iconoclasm and Facing History. The team stated the following in relation to the special issue: On 7 June 2020, a statue of slave trader Edward Colston was pushed into the Avon River in Bristol, England in a highly publicized instance of … Continue reading
Town Planning Review: COVID-19 Viewpoint Series
We hear from the Co-Editors of Town Planning Review, Daniel Baldwin Hess, Alex Lord, and John Sturzaker, Policy & Practice Editor, Olivier Sykes and Bertie Dockerill, Editorial Assistant, about putting the COVID-19 pandemic into perspective as urban planning scholars react to a changed world.
What can Abbé de Saint-Pierre tell us about the Political Enlightenment?
Carole Dornier is the author of the November volume in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, La Monarchie éclairée de l’abbé de Saint-Pierre: Une science politique des Modernes, a volume which offers a complete reassessment of the global attempt to transform the monarchical state and the Old Regime society (government, commerce, religion, customs, education, health, … Continue reading
Celebrating Disability History Month: free access to selected articles from the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies
The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies is celebrating Disability History Month by offering free access to a selection of articles until 18th December 2020. Based in the Centre for Culture & Disability Studies (CCDS), the online and print quarterly is supported by Project MUSE and Scopus. We are pleased to report that it … Continue reading
Liverpool University Press Blog 