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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 4h
🤔 How did ideas of the “mind” help sustain modern capitalism? "Inner Worlds" traces how concepts of consciousness, spirit, and collective psychology were used to explain social crises in modern Japan, obscuring the inequalities of the system itself. @uofmpress.bsky.social bit.ly/4hMhwG4
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 5h
Good morning, Frankfurt! 👋 Stop by the IPG stand #J7 in Hall 4.2 to chat with Ellen Appleton and Anna Champion about Liverpool Rights Services and the presses they represent. @rutgersupress.bsky.social @uofmpress.bsky.social @michiganpublishing.bsky.social @independentpublishersguild.com
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What happens when people are traded for coal? Daniele Valisena's compelling history uncovers the stories of Italian migrants, Belgian mining communities, and the environmental legacy they left behind. @upittpress.bsky.social bit.ly/47mXKLa #EnvironmentalHistory
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
☣️ New this month: "Toxic Fear" reveals how toxic pollution and environmental anxiety became defining features of 1980s America, exposing the human consequences of deregulation and the rise of neoliberalism. @ugapress.bsky.social More from the 'Since 1970' series here >> bit.ly/4dzZKTY
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨 Out today! We're pleased to present the untold story of Clyde Stubblefield, James Brown’s “Funky Drummer,” whose beats became the foundation of hip-hop and made him the most sampled drummer in history. 🥁 @ugapress.bsky.social Find more in the 'Music of the American South' series: bit.ly/4AEpB7l
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🏺An important moment for the legacy of David Drake: two ceramics created by the enslaved artist have been returned to his descendants. His remarkable story, creativity, and resilience are explored in "Praise Songs for Dave the Potter": bit.ly/4xUSM3h @ugapress.bsky.social bit.ly/4xXSb0S
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The Milwaukee Art Museum Just Returned Two Ceramics Made by Enslaved Potter David Drake to His Descendants
The two vessels, one of them a signed 1855 jar, are the latest to be reinstituted to Drake’s family, who are on a mission to acquire the works of their ancestor
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Rounding off both the month and our Pitt #Poetry series spotlight: "Capricorn in Flux"🐐 Elton Glaser's 11th collection: still precise, witty, crackling with verve, but now shadowed by late age. Amid loss, he finds resilience in art, love, the seasons. 🖋️ @upittpress.bsky.social bit.ly/4gj6035
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UGA Press @ugapress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We are pleased to announce Kasey Peters as the winner of the 2026 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction!🎊 Their collection Stop If You Want To was selected by series editor Lori Ostlund and will be published in the fall 2027. Read the announcement on our blog: loom.ly/QRrttuI #fiction
Announcement graphic for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction naming Kasey Peters as the 2026 winner; includes a portrait photo and notes that Stop If You Want To will be published in Fall 2027 by University of Georgia Press.
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🎷 In "Jackson Street After Hours", dive into the jazz-soaked world of Seattle’s Jackson Street, where legends like Ray Charles and Quincy Jones got their start amid all-night clubs, jam sessions, and a thriving Black music scene. Out next week! bit.ly/4hdtqbP #Jazz #MusicStudies @uwapress.uw.edu
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
⏬️ How did Russian Symbolists reinvent #Tolstoy and #Dostoevsky for the modern age? This new reader brings landmark essays into English, revealing debates that reshaped literary criticism across the twentieth century. @michiganpublishing.bsky.social bit.ly/4A1W475
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This week in our Pitt #Poetry series spotlight: "Desire Path" Elegy, ode & fable woven together: thieves, widows, dreamers, gravediggers, inheritors. Music from Bi Kidude & Kanda Bongo Man threads through poems of eros, memory & endurance. ✨ Out next month: bit.ly/4id36zl @upittpress.bsky.social
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
From Yunnan’s mines to Southeast Asia and beyond, tin linked migrants, merchants, and Qing officials in a world of expanding trade. "The Tin Centuries" uncovers the metal that helped transform empire, governance, and global commerce. @uwapress.uw.edu bit.ly/4dmxowf
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Travels with Mina Loy" follows Loy across continents, artistic movements, and creative worlds, from #Futurism and #Dada to the streets of New York and museums of Paris. With newly discovered and overlooked works. bit.ly/4ywpAk0 @leverpress.bsky.social @michiganpublishing.bsky.social #MinaLoy
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Next in our Pitt #Poetry series spotlight: "Rupture Anthem" Hera Naguib traces a speaker's journey across severance and belonging: her father's migration to #Jeddah's oil boom, girlhood under #Saudi law, a thwarted #Lahore homecoming, and diasporic America. bit.ly/4i7NtJo @upittpress.bsky.social
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🔍️ Why did Brittany Perham's estranged father name her executor of his estate weeks before he died? "Executrix" braids foreclosure notices and tax audits with fragmented memory, asking what it means to write a true story and settle an unsettled family. #Memoir bit.ly/4cMt09V @ugapress.bsky.social
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Modernity in Motion" by David J. Carlson is a bold study of #Anishinaabe writer Gerald Vizenor, tracing his idea of "transmotion" across White Earth, occupied Paris & post-Hiroshima Japan to rethink Indigenous sovereignty on a global scale. From #MSUP #IndigenousStudies #NativeLit bit.ly/3ThEzz7
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
New in October: "The Sound of Burning" by Kristi D. Osorio. At 15, her mother murdered her grandmother down the hall. Part memoir, part critique of America's true crime obsession. Osorio asks what these stories cost the real people inside them. bit.ly/4xwyDRI @ugapress.bsky.social
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🌍️Beckian Fritz Goldberg's first collection in a decade: "The Blue Eye of Earth." Luminous, meditative poems on the distance between person and cosmos, memory and desire: birdwatching, watching the moon, inhabiting a mortal body on a threatened planet. 🌙 @upittpress.bsky.social bit.ly/4bJ4PbT
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#Confucianism said stay home. #Buddhism said go on pilgrimage. In late imperial China, women did both, and reshaped gender in the process. "Boundaries and Bodhisattvas" explores how temples, altars & even the female body became sacred, subversive spaces. bit.ly/4x5guJG @uwapress.uw.edu
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
📸 A few highlights from #EuroSEAS2026! It was fantastic to see so much interest in our Southeast Asia studies titles. By the end of the conference, every title on display had sold. Thanks to everyone who stopped by our stand! 📚 @uwapress.uw.edu @uofmpress.bsky.social
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Something new from Bridwell Press: "Erasurism" traces erasure as a creative force, from ancient cave marks to biopoetry, uncovering the politics and poetics beneath avant-garde and modernist practices, and challenging what we know about authorship. bit.ly/4zz4By8 @michiganpublishing.bsky.social
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Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
📢🥳 Excerpt of #TransformingNight from @uwapress.uw.edu now out in @literaryhub.bsky.social 🎉 🌌💡🌃🛰️ #ArtificialLight #ALAN #LightPollution #Night #Darkness #LightJustice lithub.com/what-the-wor...
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What the World’s Nightscapes Reveal About Our Dependence on Artificial Light
An image of Earth at night as seen from space appeared on my laptop screen during an internet search. The captivating image with a vague title—“Global Map”—drew me in like an insect mesmerized by t…
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New short fiction this week: The Submerged Ten devastating stories of longing and exile, from a Sicilian barber's refugee apprentice to a Wisconsin town fractured by violence. Will Boast asks what we'll do when it's time to leave everything behind... @ugapress.bsky.social bit.ly/4hZ06Xv
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Discover more in Washington's Critical Filipinx Studies series this season, including "No Separate Peace", which examines Black and Filipino Collective Activism in the Pacific Northwest >> bit.ly/4irCTx4
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Critical Filipinx Studies
The Critical Filipinx Studies series lifts up the decolonizing practices and cultural productions of people from the Philippines and throughout the diaspora, illuminating how Filipinos in the US and beyond experience and imagine their everyday lives
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
From 1920s sugarcane strikes to campaigns against Duterte's drug war, Joy Sales's "We Are Revolution" traces a century of Filipino diasporic radicalism, showing how activists across the Pacific linked exile, empire, and revolution into one generational fight. @uwapress.uw.edu bit.ly/4xZwgGO
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This week's Pitt Poetry Series feature: "The Decadent Movement" Time runs backward in this book-length poem sequence that unspools from a year after childbirth, through birth itself, back to the nine months before—ending at "Minus Time," death's mirror-twin. bit.ly/4wVs3nC @upittpress.bsky.social
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We're thrilled to present "Those Who Vanish", winner of the 2026 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. King's eight stories set during Guatemala's civil war trace martyrs, exiles, and rebels, asking what remains when all is lost. bit.ly/4ia5tTC @patriciagraceking.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
☀️ We're at #EuroSEAS2026 in Madrid through Thursday, showcasing standout #AsianStudies books from our distributed partners University of Washington Press and University of Michigan Press. Visit us at the publishing exhibition! @uwapress.uw.edu @uofmpress.bsky.social
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"Claiming Impartiality" asks why multilateral peacebuilding stays depoliticised, sidelining local actors even amid criticism. Using #Bosnia & #Timor-Leste as cases, it shows how orgs' competing mandates push them toward "neutrality". @andreawarnecke.bsky.social Out now 👉️ bit.ly/4guilTg
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Claiming Impartiality
Why has multilateral peacebuilding in conflict-ridden states emerged as a depoliticized practice that rarely engages with local actors and agendas?
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"A Century of International Crisis Behaviour" draws on 500+ crises since 1918 to map how international crises arise, escalate, and get managed. Editors synthesise decades of ICB Project data into fresh insights on prevention and de-escalation. 🌍️ #PoliSci #ConflictStudies bit.ly/4zhhmgv
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A Century of International Crisis Behavior | Home
Perhaps more than ever, we need to invest in the study of the causes and consequences of crises. Since its founding in 1975, the International Crisis Behavior (ICB) Project has aimed to better equip academics, policymakers, and the next generation of engaged citizens to make sense of why crises arise and how they can be more effectively managed and prevented
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
⬇️ Fresh #PoliSci must-reads this month for anyone trying to understand modern conflict.⬇️ From why peacebuilding keeps failing to engage local politics, to what a century of crisis data tells us about escalation and prevention. @uofmpress.bsky.social
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Discover how local businesses fight, fuel, or fall to gentrification in Steven Tuttle's "Storefront", an ethnographic study of two #Chicago neighbourhoods, Logan Square and Pilsen. Tuttle explores what streetscape change costs communities' sense of belonging.🏙️ bit.ly/4g44VMe @ugapress.bsky.social
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The second title from our Pitt #Poetry series spotlight: "Abider" Melissa Crowe traces a lover-speaker who can't leave anything behind—girlhood, marriage, harm—until a closing sonnet sequence turns toward the self. 🌸 @melissacrowe.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social bit.ly/3U72lhi
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Earlier this month, Stephen J. Pyne's "Undying Fire" was referenced in this article from The New Yorker on Europe's wildfire history. Discover Stephen's vital and timely entry into the climate sciences and find more from the same series: bit.ly/4c7gzVH bit.ly/45LAea8 @uwapress.uw.edu
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Why Is Europe Burning?
“This is a structural issue in society,” a Spanish firefighter said, about worsening wildfires across Europe. “We’ve turned our backs on the mountains, on nature—and cities have never been so…
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
⭐️ "Their System, Our Game" explores how #Pathfinder's open design ethos fuels TTRPG homebrew. Discover interviews, two free campaign downloads, and a celebration of player creativity at the table. 🎲📖 Out now!: bit.ly/4g13dg2 @uofmpress.bsky.social @scottdejong.bsky.social @marclaj.bsky.social
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🪡 Over the next few weeks we’ll spotlight new releases from UPP’s Pitt Poetry Series, starting with "retrovirology". Bonani resurrects Queer elders, weaving AIDS history with a rural childhood. bit.ly/3TGTJhp @upittpress.bsky.social @bananascallops.bsky.social
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🧳 Our director of Sales & Marketing has recently been up in #Michigan during a trip to the US and spotted some of our client press titles in the wild! She might now know all there is to know about The Great Lakes State... @uofmpress.bsky.social 🚣‍♂️ #MSUP
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
📖 OUT TODAY: "Black Radical Thought in Japan" Onishi traces how Japanese writers & activists engaged C.L.R. James, Du Bois, Paul Robeson & Black Left feminists via translation as radical practice, forging Afro-Asian solidarity across the Pacific. 🌏✊ buff.ly/k6jGoPz @uwapress.uw.edu
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We're excited at this month's publication of "Human* Being". Devon Proctor explores the '#Otherkin'—a community who identify as other-than-human online—questioning what body, Self & humanity even mean. 🦊 🔓️ Open Access! --> bit.ly/3RXghKf @devinproctor.bsky.social @leverpress.bsky.social
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
📖 Some of the fiercest feminist organising of the 20th century happened... in cookbooks. "Contradictory Cookbooks" traces how American women used community cookbook fundraisers to fund movements & bridge divided lives in the civil rights era.🥘 @ugapress.bsky.social bit.ly/3TGHsJR
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
🏔️ Everest has its #Sherpas. Kilimanjaro has its #Chagga. For too long, history left them out of the story. "Kilimanjaro Porters and Guides" traces the Chagga people from first settlement through colonialism to today: the porters, cooks & guides who make every summit possible. #MSUP bit.ly/4xE9rbP
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"Beyond Affirmation" rethinks feminist rhetorical scholarship by shifting the focus from individuals to the circulation of rhetoric. Dingo and Riedner offer a transnational feminist approach centered on context, solidarity, and political action. @upittpress.bsky.social ♀️ bit.ly/4hPQtdi
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
🚨 Out today! "Non-Lyric and Lyric in Horace's Odes" Kenneth Draper explores how the Odes draw on epic, elegy, invective, and philosophy to craft a subtle poetic persona, revealing the risks, disguises, and ambitions behind one of Rome’s greatest lyric projects. bit.ly/3TD9Nka @uofmpress.bsky.social
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
In "A Marriage in Startled Air", Foster offers a moving memoir of love, illness, and resilience. As her husband's cancer diagnosis brings hidden childhood trauma to light, their shared journey becomes one of healing, deeper intimacy, and unexpected grace. bit.ly/4hPqhzA @ugapress.bsky.social
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"Novel Distortions" explores contemporary Mexican and Central American fiction to examine neoliberalism, globalisation, and the changing role of the novel in imagining politics, culture, and life beyond the nation-state. bit.ly/4fGHji8 @tamaramitchell.bsky.social
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Novel Distortions
Novel Distortions analyzes recent (1996-2019) Mexican and Central American novels through aesthetic, economic, and political lenses to interrogate two interrelated crises: the decline of national modernity and the shifting role of the novel as a genre that shapes national identity, instructs citizens in proper conduct, and conveys ideology to the reading public.
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"Testimonial Diffractions" by Ana Forcinito is a powerful exploration of how voices of survivors reshape memory, challenge gender-based violence, and push justice forward in post-dictatorship #Argentina. Out at the end of the month: bit.ly/3SeD0Bt @upittpress.bsky.social #LatAmStudies
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Cultural and Legal Responses to Gender-Based Violence in Argentina
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
We're happy to highlight two new titles this season from UPP's series 'Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas': "Testimonial Diffractions" and "Novel Distortions"...🧵 @upittpress.bsky.social bit.ly/4wAZPOF
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"Exploring Mid-Michigan" from #MSUP: Inspired by the 1930s WPA American Guide Series, it digs into the region's tensions (factories vs. farms, labour vs. management) and celebrates the people who stayed: lumberjacks, foundry workers, Indigenous peoples, poets, environmental warriors. bit.ly/3TIMgy6
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Out today: "Out of Line" Peter Schweppe explores the underground print culture of 1968 West Germany: fringe books, illicit newspapers, incendiary flyers, furtive graffiti, and how they broke literary convention to make new kinds of meaning. 📚✊ bit.ly/4frn3kf @uofmpress.bsky.social
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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Conference goers were particuarly interested in UWP's "The Beach Cure" which explores how doctors in the late 19th and early 20th centuries prescribed sun, sea air, and saltwater, transforming America's northeastern coast into a therapeutic landscape.🌊 #BAVS2026 bit.ly/4h42MCE @uwapress.uw.edu
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A History of Healing on Northeastern Shores
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