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Articles: 137

‘Beware of the ninnies!’ – Thoughts on ballet history

Sebastian Cody explores the challenges of ballet historiography, emphasising the need for rigorous scholarship amidst widespread inaccuracies

November 14, 2024
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Language and Literature

Three Unruly Natures that figure in the Ecology of Empire Writing

If Empire is, as Neel Ahuja suggests, a “project in the Government of species”, then it stands to reason that empire writing must either...

Edinburgh University Press
July 10, 2024

International Relations, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Language and Literature, Politics

Relationality in Times of War

A wall is covered in a graffiti mural of two young girls laughing together, one wears the colours of the Palestinian flag, the other wears the colours of the Israeli flag

How do British and German cultural works establish relationality between Israel and Palestine?

Edinburgh University Press
July 9, 2024

Philosophy, Political Philosophy

Fascism at the Limits of Capitalism

Reading Marx’s 'Capital' with Deleuze and Guattari

Edinburgh University Press
July 4, 2024

Publishing

Hosting the University Press Redux Conference

In May 2024, Edinburgh University Press hosted the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) University Press Redux Conference. Under the theme of “connecting people and ideas”, Redux 2024 brought together university presses, librarians, suppliers, and authors for two…

Edinburgh University Press
June 28, 2024

Language and Literature, Publishing, Scottish History, Scottish Literature, Scottish Studies

A Nation Built on Books: The Role of Libraries in Modern Scotland

The facade of the National Library of Scotland.

Scotland's National Librarian discusses the place of libraries in our cultural landscape.

Edinburgh University Press
June 18, 2024

Language and Literature, Pre 19th Century Literary Studies

How to be a Jacobean courtier – the ambitious man’s guide

The author of Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters explains what the story of Thomas Overbury reveals about success at the court of James VI and I.

Edinburgh University Press
June 14, 2024

Gender Studies, Politics

Should we compare the violence of rape, war, racism, and ecocide?

A portion of an aged magazine clipping shows a woman pointing two guns towards the viewer, with the words 'neither victim nor assassin' above

…pacifist feminists have long argued we must by Selina Gallo-Cruz Content warning: mentions of rape and sexual harassment Rape, war, racism, ecocide: a litany of violence. Are they comparable—and, if so, should they be compared? Across generations, feminist pacifists have…

Edinburgh University Press
June 13, 2024

Language and Literature, Publishing

EUP 75: Our Literature Publishing at Edinburgh University Press

Discover our Literature list, the heart of publishing at Edinburgh University Press, celebrating 75 years of excellence. Explore foundational works like the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels and innovative publications in Scottish literature, Modernism, Gothic Studies, Shakespeare and more, highlighting both renowned and underrepresented authors.