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MUP : a centenary history / Stuart Kells.

MUP : a centenary history / Stuart Kells.
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070.5 KEL
 Adult Non Fiction   Adult Lending . Available .  
Reserve Title Catalogue Record 700035204
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ISBN 9780522878097
0522878091
Classification 070.5 KEL
Personal Name Kells, Stuart
Title MUP : a centenary history / Stuart Kells.
Variant Title Melbourne University Press : a centenary history
Production & Copyright Details Carlton, VIC : Miegunyah Press, 2023.
©2023.
Physical Description 543 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (mostly colour), portraits (mostly colour) ; 24 cm.
Content type text
still image
Note In English.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Note Australia's oldest university press is also one of our best known and most trusted publishers. Founded in 1921 as a bookshop for students at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne University Press was soon publishing important works that contained the best of national scholarship. Landmark MUP books and series include The Australian Dictionary of Biography, Manning Clark's History of Australia, The Encyclopaedia of New Guinea and the journal Meanjin. These and other MUP publications helped shape how Australians perceived themselves, and how they talked about literature, politics, race, the Pacific, the world wars and public policy. From its inception, MUP grappled with hard questions. How should a university press be governed? To what extent should such a press be concerned with political, polemical and radical works? And can a university press be financially self-sustaining if it focuses on books that commercial publishers overlook? The respective leaders of MUP answered these questions in ways that regularly led the press into controversy. Using a century of MUP publications and archives, Stuart Kells has written a rich and fascinating history of an invaluable Australian institution-one that is widely seen as public property, and whose ups and downs have always been news.
Subject-Corporate Name Melbourne University Press -- History
Subject - Topical Term Publishers and publishing -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.)History
Publishers and publishing -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- History
‘The Nib’ : CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature Nominations (2023)
Added Entry - Personal Name Kells, Stuart
Added Entry - Corporate Name Melbourne University Press
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