Association for Asian Studies 2025 Annual Conference

Coming to you from the largest Asian Studies Conference worldwide, we are excited to showcase together with our partner Amsterdam University Press our latest books at #AAS2025! From topics surrounding colonial discourses…to gender research… to religious and political debate… our publications specialize in subject matters that reach right across the Asian continent and its cultures. […]
Worldwide Shipping

With topics spanning the globe, from cultural studies, to history, to language textbooks and much more. Crossing continents is not only something written about in the pages of our books. We now offer worldwide shipping direct from our website! But what about the environment? We are collaborating together with our distributors, who work with local […]
Season’s Greetings from LUP!

From all at Leiden University Press we are wishing you and your loved ones a very happy holiday and a wonderful 2025! We would like to bring to your attention our closure dates from 24th December – 6th January. Please be aware our webshop orders can be processed and paid for but shipping will not […]
Ebook launch The Eighty Years War

With popular demand for our printed edition, we are now launching the ebook of The Eighty Years War From Revolt to Regular War, 1568-1648. The Eighty Years War offers an insight into the military factors at play in the creation of the Dutch Republic. In 1648 the Spanish empire agreed to a peace treaty that […]
Revealing the story behind the cover. Podcast feature!

Alp Yenen and Erik-Jan Zürcher talk about their book, A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments. Featured in episode 46: History in Fragments podcast by The Lausanne Project, they share their innovative approach and what exactly we mean when we refer to ‘Turkish studies’. Have a listen here Check out […]
Leidschrift nr. 3- november 2024

Klik hier om het nummer aan te schaffen. Leidschrift Studenten aan Zet Onderzoek van de Historici van Morgen Jaargang 39, nummer 3, november 2024 Kernredactie: Jesse Dijkshoorn Donna Doesborg Wouter van der Hoff David Lindeboom Marieke Nolten Redactioneel Inleiding: peer-review als een gamechanger voor de geschiedfilosofen – Herman Paul Dress to Impress?: how dress created […]
#StepUP – Uni Press Week 2024

This year’s theme—#StepUP—is a chance to discover the ways university presses step up to educate, enlighten, and take action and to explore how their publications and platforms help to contextualize current issues and events, offer solutions to global challenges, and amplify diverse voices across an array of disciplines. Inaugurated by Jimmy Carter in 1978, University […]
Feature on Turkey Book Talk

Take a listen to Alp Yenen on weighing up the Republic of Turkey’s legacy at 100 years. Along with Erik-Jan Zürcher, Alp co-edited the volume, published to mark the centenary of the founding of the Republic of Turkey. It is a rich potpourri of 100 short chapters, written by over 70 scholars, examining different aspects […]