Sussex Academic Press

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Sussex Academic Press
Founded1994; 30 years ago (1994)
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Headquarters locationEastbourne
Key peopleAnthony Grahame (editorial director)
Publication typesBooks
Nonfiction topicsHumanities and Social Sciences
ImprintsThe Alpha Press
Official websitewww.sussex-academic.com (United Kingdom)

Sussex Academic Press, founded in 1994, is a publishing company based in Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom.[1] It initially specialised in Middle East studies.[2]

The house published books on issues of contemporary relevance and debate in Middle East topics,[3] Theology & Religion,[3] History (especially Portuguese, Spanish and Huguenot history),[1] and Literary Criticism,[3] as well as Latin American, First Nations, and Asian studies.[3]

Its series on the Portuguese-Speaking World: Its History, Politics and Culture is under the editorship of António Costa Pinto, Onésimo T. Almeida and Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo.[3]

In 2022, Liverpool University Press (LUP) announced its acquisition of Sussex Academic Press as part of its digital publishing strategy, allowing it access to Sussex Academic Press's 1,000-book backlist.[2]

Authors and publications[edit]

  • Bel, Germà (2012): Infrastructure and the political economy of nation building in Spain 1720–2010
  • Blocksidge, Martin (2013): The banker poet: the rise and fall of Samuel Rogers, 1763–1855
  • Britton, R. K. (2019): Don Quixote and the Subversive Tradition of Golden Age Spain
  • Graham, Helen (2014): The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century
  • Jordan, Bill (2001): Who Cares for Planet Earth?: The Con in Conservation
  • Laskier, Michael M., & Ronen Yitzhak (2023): Israel and the Mediterranean: Five Decades of Uneasy Coexistence
  • Lowe, Sid (2010). Catholicism, War and the Foundation of Francoism: The Juventud De Acción Popular in Spain, 1931-1939
  • Petersen, Tore T. (2009): Richard Nixon, Great Britain and the Anglo-American Alignment in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula: Making Allies out of Clients[4]
  • Purcell, Hugh & Smith, Phyll (2012): The Last English Revolutionary: Tom Wintringham 1898-1949
  • Shapira, Anita et al. (2014): The Nation State and Immigration
  • Smith, Donna (2012): Sex, Lies and Politics: Gay Politicians and the Press[5]
  • Townson, Nigel, ed. (2015): Is Spain Different? A Comparative Look at the 19th and 20th Centuries[6]
  • Vigne, Randolph, & Charles Littleton (2001): From Strangers to Citizens: The Integration of Immigrant Communities in Britain, Ireland and Colonial America, 1550–1750

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Book publishers UK and Ireland", Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. ISBN 1399406574, 9781399406574. Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2023, p. 181. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  2. ^ a b Cumerford, Ruth (6 September 2022). "LUP acquires Sussex Academic Press". The Bookseller. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Sussex Academic Press". Independent Publishers Group (IPG). Chicago Review Press, Inc. ipg.com. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  4. ^ Kéchichian, Joseph A. (2010). Review. Cambridge Core. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  5. ^ Bell, Christopher M. (2013). Review. Journal of British Studies, Volume 52, Issue 3, July 2013, pp. 818–819. Cambridge Core. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  6. ^ Lawrence, Mark (2017). Review. History: The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 102, Issue 352, October 2017, pp. 711–712. Wiley Online Library. Retrieved 12 March 2023.