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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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🎉 This morning we were thrilled to host four of our client presses for our second annual LDS Client Press Day in Liverpool.

A collaborative and insightful (and rainy) start to the week before #ALPSPRedux2026 kicks off tomorrow! @uofmpress.bsky.social @ugapress.bsky.social @uwapress.uw.edu #MSUP

Late Invocation for Magic Known for his courage, clarity, and accessibility, Daniels examines the tension between our idealized country and the messier cultural and economic divides, often focusing on those who can’t afford or have access to “magic.”

🧱 "Late Invocation for Magic":
In poems selected from his long career, Jim Daniels focuses on #Detroit and other Rust Belt cities, where issues of class, race and justice play out in the streets and kitchens and backyards and garages of the Americans trying to live there.
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John Smolens’s "Possession(s)" offers fourteen quietly radiant stories that chart our fears, longings, and fleeting moments of revelation spanning Great Lakes shores to Paris boulevards and ancient Italy.
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Public Humanities Engaged public scholarship is transforming the humanities. Divided into four parts, this provocative volume examines historical and contemporary sites of education and pedagogy, challenges dominant narratives about certain symbolic sites in the United States and across the Americas, highlights the struggle of marginalized communities as they wrestle to rewrite individual and collective memories of violence and trauma, and features public humanities projects that address themes relating to place and environment. Each chapter is concerned with the importance of personal relationships in educational settings, power relations in public humanities projects, and the nurturing of “new” civic spaces and places. This volume makes an important contribution to timely debates about public-facing and publicly engaged scholarship, especially in the humanities.

'Public Humanities' from #MSUP is a fascinating exploration of how engaged public scholarship is reshaping the humanities, from education and pedagogy to public projects that amplify marginalised voices, challenge dominant narratives, and rethink memory, place, and civic life.

In 'Visiting Mackinac' from #MSUP, discover how Mackinac Island and the Straits became a tourist destination over 150 years, shaped by local stories, national trends, and changing travel experiences. ⛵

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Promotional graphic for Michigan State University Press. On the left, the MSU Press logo and website (msupress.org). On the right, the book cover of Così fan tutte: An Opera of Mimetic Revelation by Isabel Díaz-Morlán, featuring an illustration of an ornate theatre interior filled with an audience.

🎭 'CosÌ fan tutte, An Opera of Mimetic Revelation'

Isabel Díaz-Morlán reads Mozart’s Così fan tutte through René Girard: tracing mimetic desire, tangled loves, and echoes of Ovid, Cervantes & Shakespeare, where words, drama & music expose rivalry, hypocrisy, and hidden truths. #MSUP
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🍂 Michigan State University Press's Fall/Winter titles are now available to view on the LUP website -- why not take a look at this season's History list? 📖
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The Paradox of Protection | Home The Making of Indirect Rule in Southern Sierra Leone, 1850–1915

"The Paradox of Protection: The Making of Indirect Rule in Southern Sierra Leone, 1850–1915" traces how British protection schemes in Sierra Leone (1850–1915) reshaped law, power, and security, creating the foundations and paradoxes of indirect colonial rule.
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Promotional graphic for two books from the African History and Culture series from Michigan State University Press, 'The Paradox of Protection' and 'Urban Saniscapes'. The graphic is mustard yellow, and both black covers sit off-centre to the left. Each have a forest green band at the binding, white typeface and black and white photographs featuring their respective subject matter on their covers. There are yellow accents, such as delineating lines between the title and subtitle and author names and the series logo, a small green icon of the content of Africa. To the right of the covers is the green Michigan State University Press logo.

🧵 🌍 We're happy to share two titles from Michigan State University Press's 'African History and Culture' series: "The Paradox of Protection" and "Urban Saniscapes", both available from 1st November here: bit.ly/4mvxV1G

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Promotional graphic for "Michigan's Con-Con 11: Women and State Constitution-making in 1961'" by Lynn Liberato. The graphic is primarily orange. To the left of the book cover is the logo of the book's publisher, "Michigan State University Press". The book's cover is off-white, showing the title, subtitle, author name and burnt orange Michigan stamp in the top right, on which two moose or deer are visible. This image is blown up, replicated and made slightly transparent to the right of the cover.

"Michigan's Con-Con 11" provides a history of the eleven pioneering women who shaped Michigan’s 1961–62 Constitutional Convention, breaking barriers in politics and constitutional reform. ♀️

Out November 1st from MSUP and available here: bit.ly/3Ju1guU

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Michigan State University Press exhibit with books and flyers.

We are all set up at #ASLE2025 at @umaryland.edu. Come say hi and check out these amazing books at the exhibit hall in the Grand Ballroom of the Student Union! #MSUP #MichiganStateUniversityPress

It’s day 2 at #NAISA2025! Come check out some of our newest releases if you haven’t already - and don’t forget to say hi! #michiganstateuniversitypress #msup #nativestudies #indigenousstudies

Michigan State University book display at NAISA 2025.

All set up and ready to go on day 1 of #NAISA2025. Come find me at booth 9 if you’re here! #msup #michiganstateuniversitypress

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Book cover for 'A Place in Common: Rethinking the History of Early Detroit' from Michigan State University Press. The top of the cover is a turquoise green and the book title is against this in white. Beneath, a pale green-tinted old map of Detroit.

New in History this season from #MSUP, "A Place in Common" examines how Indigenous diplomacy, empire, and trade shaped Detroit as a shared, contested space around the American Revolution, highlighting co-existence, resistance, and cultural borders.
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Michigan State University Press titles are now available via the LUP website! Explore MSUP's entire back catalogue and forthcoming titles here for 20% off RRP: bit.ly/LDS-MSUP #MSUP @livunipress.bsky.social

Michigan State University Press partners with Liverpool University Press for UK and European distribution Michigan State University Press (MSUP) has selected Liverpool Distribution Services (LDS) as its exclusive distribution partner for the UK and Europe, and non-exclusive partner for the rest of the …

🎉We are delighted that Michigan State University Press has partnered with Liverpool University Press for UK and European distribution. Find out more here 👉 bit.ly/MSUPLUP #MSUP @livunipress.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social @livuninews.bsky.social