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125 years of Liverpool University Press

2024 marks the 125th anniversary of LUP's formation in 1899. Since our very first publication, a pamphlet by J W Mackay entitled An Address to the Faculty of Arts, LUP has grown into an award-winning academic publisher, producing more than 160 books a year, over 40 journals, and a dozen digital collections. Last year we … Continue reading

History

Crisis in Historical Perspective

Crises are a permanent feature of the human condition. Unavoidable, ever-present; increasing in frequency, seemingly — in 2022, Collins Dictionary crowned ‘permacrisis’ as its word of the year. (Its word of the year for 2023 is ‘AI’, which itself portends further crises of apocalyptic proportions; there is a very possible scenario, according to some experts, … Continue reading

Enlightenment

An ongoing Conversation and Collaboration: German and European Cultural Histories, 1760-1830

German and European Cultural Histories, 1760-1830: Between Network and Narrative, edited by Crystal Hall and Birgit Tautz, has recently been published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. This book features eleven essays, an introduction, and an epilogue and is accompanied by a unique digital gateway into the arguments and supporting evidence in the volume. … Continue reading

Enlightenment

‘The fruit of more than 25 years of research’: Ralph Leigh’s masterly critical edition of the Correspondance complète de Rousseau is now available for the first time as an ebook collection

'The fruit of more than 25 years of research': Ralph Leigh's masterly critical edition of the Correspondance complète de Rousseau is now available for the first time as an ebook collection.