The editors of International Development Planning Review have selected ‘Negotiating the order: the politics and policing of street vending in Tehran’ by Mojgan Taheri Tafti as the Featured Article for IDPR 41.2. The paper will be free to access for a limited time here. When asked to describe the paper and highlight its importance, the … Continue reading
Open Access and Modern Languages Open – In Conversation with Luis I. Prádanos and Julia Waters
To celebrate 120 years of Liverpool University Press, we’re focusing on a different theme each month. During April, we’ve been focusing on Open Access. Modern Languages Open (MLO) is a platform for the open access dissemination of peer-reviewed scholarship from across the modern languages to a global audience. Recent publications which have been added to … Continue reading
The Age of Lightness
Marine Ganofsky and Jean-Alexandre Perras are co-editors of Le Siècle de la légèreté: émergences d’un paradigme du XVIIIe siècle français, the April Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment volume, which analyses the importance and the different issues of the notion of lightness in the conceptions and the representations of eighteenth-century France. France is a light-hearted … Continue reading
LUP Announces New Ancient History Series
Liverpool University Press is delighted to announce a new series in Ancient History, spearheaded by series editors Colin Adams (Liverpool), Fiona Hobden (Liverpool), Cristina Rosillo-López, (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla) and Susan Mattern (Georgia), supported by an international editorial board. Liverpool Studies in Ancient History is a major new international series showcasing high quality research … Continue reading
Ireland, Migration and Return Migration – In Conversation with Sinéad Moynihan
Drawing on literary, historical and cultural studies perspectives, Sinéad Moynihan's Ireland, Migration and Return Migration examines the phenomenon of the “Returned Yank” in the cultural imagination. Taking as its point of departure The Quiet Man (1952), it provides a cultural history that charts the ways in which the Returned Yank indexes a set of recurring anxieties in … Continue reading
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