Books published by Liverpool University Press

In the late 1990s, Postcolonial Studies risked imploding as a credible area of academic enquiry. This volume provides a tool for students and scholars outside French departments seeking a way into the study of Francophone colonial postcolonial debates. It supplies scholars in French with an overview of ideas and intellectuals in this area.

Nemesius' treatise On the Nature of Man is an important text for historians of ancient thought, not only as a much-quarried source of evidence for earlier works now lost, but also as an indication of intellectual life in the late fourth century AD.

Examines Margate's seaside heritage and looks at its development as a destination for holiday-makers. By examining Margate's historic identity the book proposes that Margate will be able to successfully renew itself to face future challenges.

Perhaps nowhere else on Earth does so small an area as that of island of Cyprus provide such an excellent illustration of the dynamics of Earth processes.

Offers sources vital for the reconstruction of events in the first Islamic century, covering the period which ends with the unsuccessful Arab siege of Constantinople, an event which both modern historians and Syriac chronographers see as making a decisive caesura in history.

Xenophon's Symposium is a work as useful for its Greek as it is precious for its content, a document of prime importance for the study of classical Greek society. This edition offers an unprecedented amount of help with the language, a large vocabulary and notes on the content. Greek text with facing translation, introduction and commentary.