Award winning book!
Award winning book! Philipp Krauer has won the Thomas Welskopp Dissertation Award of the German Labour History Association for his book Swiss Mercenaries in the Dutch East Indies, A Transimperial History of Military Labour, 1848-1914. Photographed from left to right: #StefanBerger, President of the #GLHA, the two prize winners #PhilippKrauer and #KorneliaRung as well as […]
Meet the Author & Presenters
Lecture | Booklaunch – CoGloSS | Oosters Genootschap | Leiden University Press The Open Door to Hidden Paganism. Abraham Rogerius’s Account of South Indian Hinduism (1651) Author: Benjamin Leathley (Università di Bologna) Date: Tuesday 27 May 2025 Time: 15:00 – 17:00 Location: P.J. Veth Nonnensteeg 1-3, 2311 VJ Leiden Room1.01 Series COGLOSS Seminars 2024-2025 Benjamin […]
Rabat International Book Fair with NIMAR
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 Scholars, The Collections of the Middle Eastern Library of Leiden University. A book which delves into topics of the #Ancient #NearEast to the material […]
LUP booth at ESSHC!
Step back in time to explore our rich collection, that delves into the exciting history of social sciences. Join us at the 15th edition of the ESSHC! Bringing together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. A lively exchange of intimate sessions, the conference welcomes topics ranging from all […]
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 […]
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 […]
Demons and Thunder
By writer Jan Wim Buisman in a featured series about his book Lightning in the Age of Benjamin Franklin. This blog was originally published by the John Adams Institute. Enlightened Protestants and Catholics both wanted to liberate simple folk from ignorance, fear, and superstition by good instruction. In enlightened eyes, fear of thunderstorms was not only evidence […]