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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press@lupdistribution.bsky.social · 2w ago

*Brand new* from University of Georgia Press! "Ladies of Little Rock" reveals how middle-class Black women and girls led the fight to desegregate Little Rock Central High School, reshaping civil rights and challenging the racial and gendered status quo. bit.ly/4v5jlRR @ugapress.bsky.social

Ladies of Little Rock

Ladies of Little Rock explores the agency and activism of middle-class Black women and girls who led the movement to desegregate Little Rock Central High School. Misti Nicole Harper argues that these ladies assumed this responsibility as part of a broader legacy of middle-class Black women who wielded respectability politics as social justice strategy. Black women such as Daisy Bates, president of the Arkansas state chapter of the NAACP, and the six Black girls of the “Little Rock Nine” proved their politically savvy and imminent respectability in Little Rock and on the international stage. Black ladies threatened the precarious social position of working-class white women and girls whose lone claim to social privilege was their whiteness and who spearheaded massive resistance as a direct reaction to the challenge that middle-class Black ladies posed.

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Liverpool University Press@livunipress.bsky.social · 4w ago

We're currently having some issues with purchasing on our website. Our team are looking into it, and we'll let you know as soon as we're back up and running for your Summer Sale orders! If you have any questions in the meantime, please send us a direct message and we'll get back to you ASAP 📩

Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press@lupdistribution.bsky.social · 4w ago

#UWP's excellent #AsianStudies title continues with "The Unburied", exploring a world where death did not end in burial: across #Qing China, coffins could remain unburied for years, reshaping family ties, ritual, and the uneasy bond between living and dead. @uwapress.uw.edu

The Unburied

In late imperial China, death did not always lead swiftly to burial. Across the Qing empire, coffins frequently remained in temple courtyards, storage houses, or shallow pits for months, years, even decades. These unburied bodies unsettled the social order: they were neither gone nor fully incorporated into ancestral lines, inhabiting a liminal space between presence and absence. The Unburied explores this unsettling phenomenon, showing how exposed remains shaped mortuary ethics and practices across families, communities, and the state.Drawing on government decrees, criminal cases, epitaphs, charitable records, and popular stories, Joohee Suh uncovers the unexpected social roles of the dead. Families crafted ornate epitaphs to sustain ties with kin whose coffins had no resting place; magistrates and officials confronted disputes over graves and desecration; Buddhist temples and philanthropic groups organized to shelter and inter abandoned bodies. Even as Confucian orthodoxy condemned corpse exposure as ritual failure, ordinary people developed adaptive practices that wove the unburied into moral and social life.This study reframes death in early modern China not as a stable ritual sequence but as an extended, negotiated process. By centering the precarious fates of the unburied, Suh illuminates how scarcity, migration, and filial obligation reshaped the relationship between living and dead. Original and deeply researched, The Unburied offers a powerful new history of mortality, ritual, and care in a society where the dead continued to dwell uncomfortably among the living.

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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press@lupdistribution.bsky.social · last mo.

Great to see our client press books out in the wild at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds! 📚 @uofmpress.bsky.social @uwapress.uw.edu #IMC2026

Liverpool University Press@livunipress.bsky.social · last mo.

It's been a busy day at #IMC2026 already and we're having a great time chatting to everyone at the book fair! We're based at booth #14 @imc-leeds.bsky.social so please come and say hello this week and have a look at what we have on offer...

A photograph of three conference stands filled with books from LUP and our partners, pictured at the bookfair of the Leeds International Medieval Congress.
Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press@lupdistribution.bsky.social · last mo.

🌃 This past weekend saw the summer solstice. As darkness (slowly!) draws back in, we might consider our use of artificial light. In "Transforming Night", Sara B. Pritchard traces how artificial light remade the night into an environmental and political battleground. @uwapress.uw.edu

Transforming Night

Darkness has become legible—and contested. Blending archival narrative with on-the-ground ethnography, Sara B. Pritchard traces how four fields—astronomy, remote sensing, conservation science, and ecology—have investigated artificial light at night, turning a ubiquitous convenience into a category of harm. From observatories chasing ever-receding darkness to the satellite images that first rendered a nocturnal planet from space and recent “Black Marble” maps, Pritchard shows how methods, instruments, and field sites shape what scientists can know about night and light—and what remains unseen.Across these encounters, night emerges not as a backdrop but as an environment in its own right—one transformed by rapidly expanding, brightening illumination in the Anthropocene. The book chronicles the ascent of “light pollution,” as well as the new challenge of space-based brightness from satellite constellations, even as dark-sky advocates fight to preserve the starry firmament. Attentive to politics as much as photons, Pritchard brings environmental justice to the fore—highlighting tensions among light poverty, forced illumination, and surveillance and calls for “beneficial darkness.” She takes seriously Indigenous astronomers’ critiques of dispossession and “astro-colonialism,” asking what it means to site world-class telescopes on sacred land.Sweeping from local parks to planetary vistas, Transforming Night reframes a familiar story of modern light as a history of changing nights—past, present, and possible. It will engage readers in environmental history and humanities, science and technology studies, and the sciences themselves, along with dark-sky activists and anyone drawn to the beauty and politics of the world after nightfall.

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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press@lupdistribution.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🪨 Archaeology isn't just about ancient discoveries, it's also about adventure, risk, and resilience. Archaeologist Richard Redding shares stories from the trenches, revealing the challenges, dangers, and unexpected realities behind uncovering the past. bit.ly/4ecJ3xq @michiganpublishing.bsky.social

Tales From the Field

Join Dr. Richard Redding—renowned archaeologist, professor, and field researcher—as he shares stories from a life spent uncovering the past. Leading large excavations demands not just scientific skill but resilience, quick thinking, and the ability to navigate both logistical hurdles and unpredictable dangers. Whether escaping a volatile situation or managing a team in extreme conditions, Redding’s tales reveal the real world of archaeology. Through sharp insight and compelling storytelling, he shows us that archaeology is as much about the adventure as it is about the discovery.

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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press@lupdistribution.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Revolutionary Natures" challenges the idea that Mao-era China was simply an environmental disaster. Through rich case studies, it reveals a more complex history of industrialization, scarcity, resistance, ecological change, and even early conservation efforts. ➡️ @uwapress.uw.edu

Revolutionary Natures

This volume offers a groundbreaking reassessment of the environmental history of Mao-era China, a period often reduced to a story of unchecked ecological devastation. Bringing together leading voices in Chinese environmental history, Revolutionary Natures reveals a far more complex reality. Through vivid case studies, the contributors show how policies of rapid industrialization collided with material scarcity, grassroots resistance, and the unruly agency of nature itself.From forests planted and felled in the same decade to wetlands transformed by labor campaigns, the chapters reveal the contradictions of an era when deforestation, pollution, and biodiversity loss coexisted with nascent conservation efforts and early experiments in sustainability. Drawing on local archives, oral histories, and even the perspective of nonhuman actors such as trees, rivers, and wildlife, the book places nature at the center of the revolutionary experience.Rather than a single narrative of environmental destruction, Revolutionary Natures illuminates multiple, overlapping histories of struggle, sacrifice, and adaptation. In doing so, it not only complicates assumptions about socialism, development, and ecology but also traces the roots of today’s environmental dilemmas in China and beyond. This volume sets a new standard for the study of modern China and global environmental history, offering critical insights into the legacies of revolution, the politics of scarcity, and the enduring entanglement of human and natural worlds.

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