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Leiden University Press is an academic publisher of books - print and digital - in the humanities and social sciences
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We are getting ready to #TeamUP for this year’s University Press Week. Celebrating cutting-edge scholarship together with our peers and partners from across the globe. A big shoutout our colleagues this #UniversityPressWeek

Check out our series: lup.nl/series/ Read about UPW: lnkd.in/eV3nQJws
November 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Explore our newest title: "The Legacy of Colonial Era Postcards from British Malaya to the Present" by Farish A. Noor.

Learn more and order the book here: lup.nl/publications...

#Colonialpostcards #Colonialphotography #VisualsofEmpire #BritishMalaya #PostcolonialMalaya
October 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Explore our newest title: "The Leiden Wigalois Manuscript" by Jef Jacobs & Barend Verkerk.

Learn more and order the book here: lup.nl/publications...
October 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Following the success of the hardcover edition, ''Slavery & the Dutch State'' is now also available in a paperback format.

Order a copy here: lup.nl/publications...
leidenup.bsky.social Leiden University Press @leidenup.bsky.social · Apr 16
How could a state emerge from resistance to #political #slavery and subjugation by a foreign power, only to become a #colonial empire that promoted #slavery all over the world?

Curious to find out more? Check out our latest #publication Slavery & the Dutch State here lup.nl/publications...
October 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Ontdek onze nieuwste publicatie: "Avenue verruimt de blik" van Esther Op de Beek. Het boek maakt deel uit van de Van Selm reeks.

Lees meer en bestel het boek hier: lup.nl/publications...
September 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Explore our newest title: "Empire, Tourism, and Colonial Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka" by Mikko Toivanen.

Learn more and order the book here: lup.nl/publications...

#prototourism #colonialism #knowledgeproduction #transimperialhistory #travelwriting #SoutheastAsia
September 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Leiden University Press marks the opening of the academic year with a new publication: 'Introduction to International Studies' by Maurits Berger.

Read more about the book and order here: lup.nl/publications...

#InternationalStudies #Humanities #GlobalChallenges #GlobalTrends #GlobalStructures
September 1, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Check out our latest book by Ali Shobeiri and Helen Westgeest: "Oikography: Homemaking through Photography."

Read more about the book and order your copy here: lup.nl/publications...

#Homemaking #Photography #Migration #Home #Belonging #Displacement #Refugees #Oikography
August 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Discover the latest release in the NL-Arms series: The Art of Scaling – Organising Swift Adaptation to Cope with Crises and War.

Read more about the book and order here: lnkd.in/gJggWmBi

#scalability #resilience #organizational #change #civil #military #relations #armedforces #War
July 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Watch back youtu.be/uQlW7YdFyBE Book presentation by #MateoCohen. Event organized by Legitimacy & Justice Research Cluster, endorsed by Centre for the Study of Political Parties and Representation, moderated by the acting Scientific Director of Institute of Political Science Henriëtte van den Heuvel
Book presentation Radicalized Conservatism in Israel
YouTube video by Leiden University Press
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June 11, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Searching for your latest podcast fix?

Take a listen to our writer #KaiShmushko featured on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, with host #TiatemsuLongkumer. Find the podcast episode here: lnkd.in/eCwEVeh4 and order the book here: lup.nl/publications...
May 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Check out our latest book by Siavash Rafiee Rad! Launched today Expeditions in Persia: Exploring Qajar Persia in two 19th-Century Diaries’.

Read more about the book and order a copy here: lnkd.in/euUDvnjp
May 28, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Irrigating the Desert by Roberto Arciero our latest book explores how local communities adapted to environmental and hydrological changes in the Murghab alluvial fan. Read more about the book and order here lnkd.in/eZuNziKE

#Archaeology #CentralAsia #Murghab #Turkmenistan #Watermanagement
May 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Join us at the book presentation of 'Radicalized Conservatism in Israel' by #MateoCohen.

All are welcome! More info about the event here: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20.... More about the #book here: lup.nl/publications...
May 7, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Award winning book! Philipp Krauer has won the Thomas Welskopp Dissertation Award - German Labour History Association for his book Swiss Mercenaries in the Dutch East Indies. Photo: #StefanBerger, President #GLHA, 2 winners #PhilippKrauer & #KorneliaRung and #SibylleMarti & #KnudAndresen GLHA board.
April 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Meet author #BenjaminLeathley at the launch of The Open Door to Hidden Paganism in conversation with #PeterBisschop @richardcalis.bsky.social #JoanPauRubiés #CarolienStolte chaired by #JosGommans
Curious to find out more? Event: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20... Book: lup.nl/publications...
April 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Drawing on a wealth of Dutch and Chinese sources, #LeonardBlussé reconstructs the #colonial development of Batavia and its environs, and the crucial Chinese contribution to it in his #book published today A Colonial Tragedy: The Chinese Massacre at Batavia, 1740.
Read here: lup.nl/publications...
A Colonial Tragedy - Leiden University Press
This book evokes the forgotten colonial tragedy of the Chinese massacre at Batavia in 1740.
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April 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Our books are on the road to the 30th #Rabat International #Book and Publishing #Fair #SIEL together with NIMAR! Curious? Read more here lup.nl/rabat-intern...
Rabat International Book Fair with NIMAR - Leiden University Press
Our books are on the road to the 30th Rabat International Book and Publishing Fair together with NIMAR! Included in their vibrant display they will feature LUP’s publication Prophets, Poets and Schola...
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April 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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How could a state emerge from resistance to #political #slavery and subjugation by a foreign power, only to become a #colonial empire that promoted #slavery all over the world?

Curious to find out more? Check out our latest #publication Slavery & the Dutch State here lup.nl/publications...
April 16, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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#NewBooksNetwork podcast has featured our publication Wali Pitu and Muslim Pilgrimage in Bali!

Take a listen to our talented writer Syaifudin Zuhri hosted by the amazing Jaclyn Michael: newbooksnetwork.com/wali-pitu-an...

Curious about the #book? Read more and order here: lup.nl/publications...
April 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Taking to the stage #MateoCohen discusses topics from his book "Radicalized Conservatism in Israel. The One-State Ideology and Democratic Decay”.

Watch the event recording (in Hebrew): www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaoS...

Read more about the book and order here: lup.nl/publications...
במת שוראקי לדת ודעת: חזון המדינה האחת של הימין השמרני-דתי וניוון הדמוקרטיה בישראל - 28.1.2025
YouTube video by The Open University of Israel
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March 31, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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A new book series has arrived, Holocene Histories!

Drop by our stand at the ESSHC (today till Saturday) to discuss our upcoming titles. If you are a writer we would loeve to meet you. Read more here: lnkd.in/eUA-HSsZ

#book #series #history #leiden #event #leidenuniversity #academic #ESSHC #writer
March 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Check out our latest publication, hitting book shelves today Radicalized Conservatism in Israel: The One-State Ideology and Democratic Decay by #MateoCohen. Read more about the book and buy a copy here: lup.nl/publications...

#book #Israel #right #conservatism #political #ideology
March 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Join us at the 15th edition of the European Social Science History Conference!

Leiden University
Johan Huizinga building (LUP booth)
26 - 29 March 2025

Read more about the #conference here: esshc.iisg.amsterdam/en/esshc-con...
#event #bookfair #book #Leiden #LeidenUniversity #history
March 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM