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University presses are amazing, so I continue my seasonal celebration of the @aupresses community and other scholarly publishers with a thread highlighting #Fall2020 catalogs and some wonderful #ReadUP offerings at the top of my TBR list: https://seanguynes.com/fall-2020/
You can find the #Spring2020 list of catalogs and recommendations of @aupresses members + others here: https://twitter.com/saguynes/status/1182693529308422145
And for those who want to browse ALL the catalogs EVER for themselves, the master list of uni press catalogs, twitters, etc. is available here: https://seanguynes.com/2019/01/01/unipresses/
As usual, I will regularly update my list of #Fall2020 catalog recommendations here, though at present the webpage is a bit blank: https://seanguynes.com/fall-2020/
The first up, and I believe the first #Fall2020 catalog released this year, is from @UofRPress: https://uofrpress.ca/content/download/32217/334929/version/1/file/Fall+2020+Catalogue+-+U+of+R+Press.pdf
One of the most exciting catalogs of each season is @VersoBooks's. The #Fall2020 catalog celebrates their 50th anniversary! https://issuu.com/versobooks/docs/verso_fall_2020__1_
Next up is the #Fall2020 catalog from @WSUPress, a powerful in local publishing and with a major lists in film, fairy tale, Jewish, and African American studies. Also, birbs: https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/FW20.pdf
One of my favorites each year is the @WVUPRESS catalog. Here's #Fall2020 with a gorgeous cover and a great selection of books: https://wvupressonline.com/sites/default/files/wvupress_catalog_fall2020_final.pdf
An important publisher in indigenous and Canadian studies, @UAlbertaPress has also released their #Fall2020 catalog out: https://www.uap.ualberta.ca/images/pdfs/2020_Fall_UAP-catalogue.pdf
The #Fall2020 catalog from @UCalgaryPress celebrates 10 years of open access publishing. They are an innovator in the field and an exceptional publisher all around: https://press.ucalgary.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Fall-2020-Catalog.pdf
This year's #Fall2020 catalog from @UNMPress lengthens their reputation for having some of the most well-designed catalogs in the business, and offers an awesome selection of regional, indigenous, and Chicanx/Latinx studies: https://unmpress.com/sites/default/files/downloads/fa20_catalog_web_lowres.pdf
Check out the #Fall2020 catalog from @UNDPress, a leader in Catholic studies and philosophy, among other things: https://dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/notre-dame-university-press-wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/17140822/UNDP-Fall2020.pdf
An amazing #Fall2020 catalog with fiction and scholarship from @UPittPress: https://upittpress.org/fall-winter-2020-catalog/
And last for today is the #Fall2020 catalog from @lsupress: https://lsupress.org/books/by-catalog/fall-2020/
That's it for today! Thanks to the editorial, production, and marketing teams, and the authors, at @UofRPress @VersoBooks @WSUPress @WSUPress @UAlbertaPress @UCalgaryPress @UNMPress @UNDPress @UPittPress @lsupress and the @aupresses community generally for bringing #ReadUP joy!
In the coming days I'll update this thread with catalog links and some recommendations of books from the new #Fall2020 catalogs for @ManchesterUP @msupress @CornellPress @JHUPress @Harvard_Press @PrincetonUPress @IllinoisPress @utpress & @UnivNebPress: https://seanguynes.com/fall-2020/
First up today is the #Fall2020 catalog from @msupress, a leader in African and indigenous studies, and with an awesome regional list, too! https://dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/michigan-state-university-press/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/19210717/Spring-2020_final_OP.pdf
I'm most excited about @DFStirrup's PICTURING WORLDS, a study of visuality and sovereignty in Anishinaabe literature, in the @msupress #Fall2020 catalog: https://msupress.org/9781611863529/picturing-worlds/
Next up today we have the #Fall2020 catalog from @CornellPress: https://issuu.com/cornelluniversitypress/docs/fw20_issuu
One exciting book from @CornellPress's #Fall2020 catalog is @olaferr's study of American colonization and its "civilizational imperatives" in the Philippines's Muslim South: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501750724/civilizational-imperatives/
And also in the @CornellPress #Fall2020 catalog is @Oldlife's cultural history of Catholicism in the Cold War U.S.: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501700576/american-catholic/
There's always excellent stuff from @ManchesterUP and their #Fall2020 catalog is no exception: https://d2yvuud5fila0c.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/04103537/Trade-Catalogue.pdf
The first of my @ManchesterUP #Fall2020 catalog recs is @peter_nhs / @pdkmitchell's book on "imperial nostalgia" in post-empire Britain: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1526146207/
The @ManchsterUP #Fall2020 catalog also bring us an important edited collection on the global history of white nationalism by @TCDHistHum's Dan Geary, @MillaSchofield, and @jsutt: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1526147076/
Now we transition to the @JHUPress #Fall2020 catalog chock full of things I want to bankrupt myself buying: https://issuu.com/johnshopkinsuniversitypress/docs/jhup-fall_seasonal_catalog_2020
First up from the @JHUPress #Fall2020 catalog is @ucsc #Classics prof. Martin Devecka's study of how ruins become ruins and how they come to matter: https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/broken-cities
Another really exciting book in the @JHUPress #Fall2020 catalog is @OSUEnglish prof. and colleague Michelle Ann Abate's book on #ChYALit written for adults! https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/no-kids-allowed
Americanists will want to check out @AccusedWizard's history of suburban crisis in the post-industrial US featured in @JHUPress's #Fall2020 catalog: https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/neighborhood-fear
In a similar vein, the @JHUPress #Fall2020 catalog offers @DinaFainberg's history of US and Soviet journalists during the Cold War: https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/cold-war-correspondents
It's no surprise that the #Fall2020 @Harvard_Press catalog has a lot to offer and the five suggestions below are just the beginning of what you can discover this fall: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalogs/hup-catalog-2020-fall.pdf
First up from the #Fall2020 @Harvard_Press catalog is Tim Harper's history of revolutionary, anti-imperial networks in Asia during the early 20th century leading: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674724617
@stjohnscollege prof. Stephen Rosenberg's book on mass consumption and the rise of leisure time--buying things we don't have time for--is a major highlight of the #Fall2020 @Harvard_Press catalog: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674979512
@mm1124 returns with a book in the #Fall2020 @Harvard_Press catalog about the manufacture of the nation-state through the creation of ethno-religious majorities and minorities: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674987326
Looking at the story of British empire, @PriyaSatia's book in the #Fall2020 @Harvard_Press catalog explores how historians help shape the present through ideological interventions: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674248373
And the #Fall2020 @Harvard_Press catalog also brings us @stephenwertheim's history of the U.S.'s pursuit of global supremacy in the wake of WWII: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674248663
We continue with @PrincetonUPress's #Fall2020 catalog, another awesome listing of new books that threatens to bankrupt me. But so be it: https://press.princeton.edu/fall-2020
First up in my general recommendations from @PrincetonUPress #Fall2020 catalog is @clcaterine's much-needed guide to leaving academia, a great companion to the work pioneered by @ProfessorIsIn: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691200194/leaving-academia
An obscure-ish but awesome book I want to highlight from the @PrincetonUPress #Fall2020 catalog is the paperback rerelease of Tales of the Narts, essential mythology from the Caucasus: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691211527/tales-of-the-narts
Also in @PrincetonUPress #Fall2020 catalog is a history that gives context to the discoveries made with the Rosetta Stone, written for a broad audience, by @Caltech prof. Jed Buchwald and @dianegreco: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691200903/the-riddle-of-the-rosetta
Continuing in the vein of trade history texts from the @PrincetonUPress #Fall2020 catalog is @CNERSUBC prof. Anthony Barrett's history of the fire that burned Nero's Rome: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172316/rome-is-burning
A highlight from @PrincetonUPress #Fall2020 catalog is @ucsc #history prof. and former @AHAhistorians pres. Tyler Stovall's intertwined histories of race, whiteness, and freedom: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691179469/white-freedom
See also from @PrincetonUPress #Fall2020 catalog @mathuclair's book on race and class in criminal court: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691194332/privilege-and-punishment
And @PrincetonUPress #Fall2020 catalog brings us an important work on the idea of utopia in the forging of an "Anglo-American" identity by @DrDuncanBell: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691194011/dreamworlds-of-race (no cover yet)
