In "The Bolsheviks Survive", Rabinowitch asks what revolution looked like on the ground. In civil war–ravaged Petrograd, Bolshevik leaders struggled to govern, feed, and stabilize a city in crisis.
Available next week from UPP: bit.ly/4cPAatd
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✍️ In Lee Butler's "Four Years in Izumi", a court noble’s rare village diary reveals the complex realities of everyday life in war-torn medieval Japan, challenging familiar narratives.
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New from #MSUP, Kerry's Manzo's brilliant "Queer Contiguities of Nigerian Literature" rethinks Nigerian literary history by showing how colonial and national ideas about gender and sexuality have defined its development from modernism to LGBTQIA writing. 🌈
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We were so happy to see our titles on display at @lupdistribution.bsky.social's booth during the Classical Association Conference in Manchester last week. Our authors were excited too! Pictured: Gaia Gianni, holding her new book, All in the Family. Read it online: doi.org/10.3998/mpub... #openaccess
From UGAP's African Languages Literatures in Translation series, "The Mad". Mabasa unleashes a sharp, darkly humorous portrait of post-independence Zimbabwe, where fractured voices reveal lives shaped by poverty, violence and restless dreams.
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Elizabeth Gordon McKim lived with Etheridge Knight during the last year of his life. "Freedom and Confinement" is the result of their conversations, an intimate dialogue that invites readers into the poet's legacy and the voices that shaped it.
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The LUP and Independent Publishing Awards logos are to the left then on a red background to the right reads text in white “Liverpool University Press is bold, energetic and outward-looking… you can feel the passion. It’s progressive and pushing things forward on lots of fronts.” Below this is smaller white text reading 'Shortlisted for the Clarivate Academic, Educational and Professional Publisher of the Year'
Want to learn a bit more about LUP? Visit our testimonials page to read some of the lovely words members of the publishing community have said about us: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/pages/testim...
Melanie Faranello’s "Everybody Needs Something" explores the deep human need for connection through intimate, emotionally resonant lives. Discover fourteen quietly powerful stories tracing love, loss, and the fragile spaces between us.
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🌄 Across Los Angeles, Rio, and Buenos Aires, an Argentine-Brazilian narrator navigates shifting languages, identities, and relationships in a search for belonging. An inventive novel of migration, memory, and home.
Discover now: bit.ly/4dyKo34
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🫖 Anyone for tea?
From oolong to bubble tea, "Routes of Taiwan Tea" shows how a single leaf carries #Taiwan’s identity, politics, and global connections. 🧋
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Promotional graphic for the book Loving Insects by Beth Fowkes Tobin. At left, the book cover shows detailed vintage-style illustrations of insects on a dark teal background, with the subtitle about John Abbot’s drawings and natural history collecting in the Atlantic world, 1760s–1840s. At right, a matching teal panel features a quote, “a tour-de-force—exacting, vibrant, and deeply personal,” credited to Jordan Goodman, alongside a Wormsloe Foundation nature book emblem and the University of Georgia Press logo.
🐞 "Loving Insects"
John Abbot’s intricate insect paintings and global specimen networks made him a quiet force in early American natural history, yet his legacy remains overlooked. This wonderful book restores his place at the centre of the story.
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Liverpool University Press is thrilled to share that we have been shortlisted for the Clarivate Academic, Educational and Professional Publisher of the Year at the 2026 Independent Publishing Awards!
Promotional graphic for Flannery and Regina: The Andalusia Chronicles by Carol Loeb Shloss. On the left, the book cover shows a black-and-white photo of a seated woman with peacocks. On the right, a quote reads “genuine insight into a complicated mother-daughter relationship” attributed to Sarah Gordon. The background is muted green with National Book Award (NSB) and University of Georgia Press logos.
From NewSouth Books, "Flannery and Regina" is a poignant portrait of Flannery O’Connor and her mother Regina. Carol Shloss explores illness, authorship, and life in the mid-century South, showing a literary legacy is shaped by family.
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Promotional graphic for Wallace in the Field: Ethnographic Expeditions and the Rise of Anthropology by Victor Rafael Limeira-DaSilva. On the left, the book cover shows an illustrated tropical scene with palm trees, a house, and a figure standing in the foreground. On the right, text describes Alfred Russel Wallace’s role in advancing anthropology through global travel and ethnographic study. The background is light blue with palm tree illustrations and the University of Pittsburgh Press logo.
🌴 Recasting Alfred Russel Wallace as a pioneering anthropologist, "Wallce in the Field" traces his global fieldwork and ambition, showing how ethnographic encounters and racial science shaped new standards of authority in #Victorian science.
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Promotional graphic for Humor in the Historical Works of Tacitus by Emma Warhover. On the left, the book cover features a red title panel above a classical illustration of a chaotic Roman scene. On the right, a stylized vintage illustration shows two ancient figures in animated interaction. The background is split tan and red with the University of Michigan Press logo.
😆 "Humor in the Historical Works of Tacitus"
In this sharp re-reading of #Tacitus, Emma Warhover shows how humour in his dense prose exposes imperial hypocrisy and absurdity, revealing wit as a deliberate critical tool at the heart of #Roman historiography.
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Leading scholar of Latinx photography Elizabeth Ferrer shares more about CHICANO CAMERA CULTURE, a new book and exhibition that surveys the history of photography by Chicano artists based in the US, spanning the 1960s to the present day. Read our Q&A on the blog:
Not an #AprilsFools! My book Lavender Sounds: From Lesbian Radio to Queer Feminist Soundwork (July 2026) is now available for pre-order through @uofmpress.bsky.social and @livunipress.bsky.social 💜
#feminism #mediastudies #queerhistory #podcasting www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
😷 How did cholera, syphilis, and mental illness shape the making of modern #Tokyo? Upcoming this season, "Mapping Medical Modernity" traces how policy, urban space, and medical capitalism intertwined to remake public health in Meiji-era Japan.
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In "Neoliberalism and Unlawful Governance", Guillermina Seri examines how market-driven policies enable exclusion and abuse while privileging markets over democracy, rights, and nature—and highlights resistance and commons-based alternatives.
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Cover of Moving Mountains: Asian American and Pacific Islander Feminisms and the 1977 National Women's Conference by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu with Adrienne A. Winans
MOVING MOUNTAINS by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Adrienne Winans explores a pivotal moment in the development of Asian American and Pacific Islander feminisms—a timely read for #WomensHistoryMonth. Now available: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
🧡 Through personal and lyric essays, "Sifting the Feminine" explores how illness, especially #PCOS, reshapes women’s relationships with their bodies and challenges cultural expectations of femininity.
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Promotional graphic for the book Resources and Everyday Conflicts in Rural Ukraine: Theorizing Social Change by Deema Kaneff (University of Pittsburgh Press). On a green background, a quote from Francis Pine reads: “tells a story of resilience, of adaptation to change, and of new possibilities…” The book cover appears on the right, featuring photos of people working in a rural field and a group gathered around a table, with the University of Pittsburgh Press logo at the bottom.
In "Resources and Everyday Conflicts in Rural Ukraine," Deema Kaneff's ethnographic research in a rural Bulgarian community reveals how post-socialist resource redistribution reshaped local conflicts, alliances, and social relations.
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Promotional graphic for the book Posting for Power: Congressional Partisanship on Social Media by Jeremy Gelman and Steven Lloyd Wilson (University of Michigan Press). The book cover appears on the left with a tan title banner and an illustration of the U.S. Capitol; the background shows a stylized line drawing of the Capitol dome in muted blue tones with the University of Michigan Press logo.
Congressional partisanship is often a strategic performance: by analysing millions of social media posts, "Posting for Power" shows how lawmakers amplify partisan conflict to boost reelection prospects and status within their party...
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From #MSUP, "Violent Histories, Livable Futures" explores the tension between power, representation, and justice through historical case studies, including 1950s sub-Saharan Africa, post-WWII Guatemala, and the U.S. after George Floyd's murder.
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Two women sat on chairs upon a stage facing an audience, unseen. The woman on the left holds a microphone and prepares to answer a question. A lectern is visible on the left, a large screen on the right saying “thank you” and a table with water and glasses.
A woman speaking into a microphone at a lectern is on the right. To the left, a screen with a slide with the title “Publishing Futures: What’s Next? (And the role of university presses in making a difference)
The final plenary of #UPRedux2026 is Monica Westin of #CUP, who explores the biggest systemic problems in scholarly publishing and examines how publishers can drive meaningful, large-scale change.
Before we break for lunch, @jesherer.bsky.social speaks on our “Toxic Perfectionism” in the UP world.
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🌱”Sustainability on a Shoestring”:
We’re hearing from LUP’s own sustainability co-leads Alice Burns and Katharine Easterby on our commitments to sustainability as a UP. #UPRedux2026
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And we’re off! Day two of #UPRedux2026 starts with George Walkley who tackles AI and UPs. University Presses, Walkley asserts, offers a critical and valuable *judgement* that AI cannot.
This afternoon saw an excellent #EJIB session with Walter Biggins, Carla Hepburn, and Sarah Phibbs, before the closing keynote from Wendy Queen addressed “The Necessary Transformation of University Presses”. #UPRedux2026
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