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The Making of the Middle Ages
Liverpool University Press 2007; US$ 80.00Liverpools contribution to the modern construction of the middle ages is here recognized for the first time. From the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, scholars from Merseyside have made pioneering advances in fields as diverse as Celtic philology and manuscript collecting, each in their own way contributing to our steadily deepening understanding... more...
W. S. Graham
Liverpool University Press 2004; US$ 75.00Grahams work was published by T. S. Eliot in the 1940s and 50s, but as a major post-war poet, his work has received astonishingly little critical attention given its prestige and influence. This collection of essays covers all aspects of Grahams work its critical reception, recent influence and its relations with other developments... more...
South American Independence
Liverpool University Press 2006; US$ 70.00The struggles for independence in Latin America during the first half of the nineteenth century were accompanied by a wide-ranging debate about political rights, nationality and citizenship. In South American Independence , Catherine Davies, Claire Brewster and Hilary Owen investigate the neglected role of gender in that discussion. Examining women... more...
Gladstone Centenary Essays
Liverpool University Press 2000; US$ 70.00W. E. Gladstone towers over the politics of the nineteenth century. He is known for his policies of financial rectitude, his campaigns to settle the Irish question and his championship of the rights of small nations. He remains the only British Prime Minister to have served for four separate terms. In 1998 an international conference at Chester College... more...
Translating Life
Liverpool University Press 1999; US$ 75.00This volume brings together eighteen substantial essays by distinguished scholars, critics and translators, and two interviews with eminent figures of British theatre, to explore the idea and practice of translation. The individual, but conceptually related, contributions examine topics from the Renaissance to the present in the context of apt exploration... more...
Varieties of World Making
Liverpool University Press 2007; US$ 85.00Globalization has been the topic of heated debate in recent years, with one side asserting that it will produce a better standard of living for people around the world, and a fierce opposition arguing that it will ultimately lead to greater poverty and the destruction of unique human cultures. Varieties of World Making tackles the issue from a different... more...
National-Level Planning in Democratic Countries
Liverpool University Press 2001; US$ 32.50National-level spatial planning in democratic countries has been all but ignored by researchers in urban and regional planning since the reconstruction years following World War II. Being synonymous for many with repressive regimes and coercive government practices, national-level planning also fell into some disrepute. A set of specially commissioned... more...
Gateways to Forever
Liverpool University Press 2007; US$ 75.00This third volume in Mike Ashleys four-volume study of the science-fiction magazines focuses on the turbulent years of the 1970s, when the United States emerged from the Vietnam War into an economic crisis. It saw the end of the Apollo moon programme and the start of the ecology movement. This proved to be one of the most complicated periods... more...
Environmental Pollution Studies
Liverpool University Press 1999; US$ 20.00This book examines a number of important contemporary environmental issues in an informative and easy-to-read style. The topics covered include sewage treatment, eutrophication, air pollution, acid rain, global warming and pollution from farming. A particularly valuable section of the book describes a range of tests that can be carried out on various... more...
Hervé Guibert
Liverpool University Press 1999; US$ 70.00This is the first full-length study to cover the complete texts of Hervé Guibert (19551991), offering a thorough documentation of his literary output. The book is guided by Guiberts relation to the novel, a major line of enquiry throughout, as well as his experimentation with voices in particular. One of Boulés main contentions... more...









