Liverpool University Press: 64 books
Vietnam and Beyond
Tim O'Brien and the Power of Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
This is a comprehensive, in-depth study of one of the most thought-provoking writers of the Vietnam war generation. This volume breaks away from previous readings of O'Brien's development as a trauma artist and an outspoken chronicler of the American involvement in Vietnam: its thematic, rather than...
Disability Studies and Spanish Culture
Films, Novels, the Comic and the Public Exhibition
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Disability Studies and Spanish Culture is the first book to apply the tenets of Disability Studies to the Spanish context. In particular, this work is an important corrective to existing cultural studies of disability in Spain that tend to largely ignore intellectual disabilities. Taking on the representation...
American Creoles
The Francophone Caribbean and the American South
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
The Francophone Caribbean and the American South are sites born of the plantation, the common matrix for the diverse nations and territories of the circum-Caribbean. This book takes as its premise that the basic configuration of the plantation, in terms of its physical layout and the social relations...
Mobility at Large
Globalization, Textuality and Innovative Travel Writing
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Mobility at Large explores a unique trajectory of travel writing. Instead of focussing on best-selling travel texts by Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson, Michael Palin, Alain de Botton and others, this book examines a strand of innovative contemporary travel writing wherein the authors experiment with form,...
A Handful of Blue Earth
Poems by Vénus Khoury-Ghata
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
In her preface the distinguished American poet and translator Marilyn Hacker describes the poems included here as 'exploded narratives, re-assembled in a mosaic or labyrinth in which the reader, like Ariadne, finds a connecting thread'. Khoury-Ghata's book, published in her eighty-first year, is testimony...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Civilians and War in Europe 1618-1815 examines the relationship between civilians and warfare from the start of the Thirty Years War to the end of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The volume interrogates received narratives of warfare that identify the development of modern 'total' war with...
Solar Flares
Science Fiction in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Science fiction produced in the 1970s has long been undervalued, dismissed by Bruce Sterling as "confused, self-involved, and stale". The New Wave was all but over and Cyberpunk had yet to arrive. The decade polarised sf - on the one hand it aspired to be a serious form, addressing issues such as...
Reading the Irish Woman
Studies in Cultural Encounters and Exchange, 1714-1960
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
The theme of this book is cultural encounter and exchange in Irish women's lives. Using three case studies: the Enlightenment, emigration and modernism, it analyses reading and popular and consumer culture as sites of negotiation of gender roles. It traces how the circulation of ideas, fantasies and...
The French Anarchists in London, 1880-1914
Exile and Transnationalism in the First Globalisation
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
This book is a study of political exile and transnational activism in the late-Victorian period. It explores the history of about 500 French-speaking anarchists who lived in exile in London between 1880 and 1914, with a close focus on the 1890s, when their presence peaked. These individuals sought...
Reconfiguring Slavery
West African Trajectories
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Reconfiguring Slavery focuses on the range of trajectories followed by slavery as an institution since the various abolitions of the nineteenth century. It also considers the continuing and multi-faceted strategies that descendants of both owners and slaves have developed to make what use they can...
Cuba's Wild East
A Literary Geography of Oriente
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Cuba's Wild East: A Literary Geography of Oriente recounts a literary history of modern Cuba that has four distinctive and interrelated characteristics. Oriented to the east of the island, it looks aslant at a Cuban national literature that has sometimes been indistinguishable from a history of Havana....
by Andrea Major
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
'There are no two things in the world more different from each other than East-Indian and West Indian-slavery' (Robert Inglis, House of Commons Debate, 1833). In Slavery, Abolitionism and Empire in India, 1772-1843, Andrea Major asks why, at a time when East India Company expansion in India, British...
by Baron de Vastey, Chris Bongie
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Long neglected in mainstream history books, the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) is now being claimed across a range of academic disciplines as an event of world-historical importance. The former slaves' victory over their French masters and the creation of the independent nation of Haiti in 1804 is...
Contesting Views
The Visual Economy of France and Algeria
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Fifty years after Algerian independence, the legacy of France's Algerian past, and the ongoing complexities of the Franco-Algerian relationship, remain a key preoccupation in both countries. A central role in shaping understanding of their shared past and present is played by visual culture. This...