{"product_id":"mup-by-stuart-kells-9780522878097","title":"MUP","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInside Australia's most venerable book publishing house.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAustralia'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLandmark MUP books and series include \u003cem\u003eThe Australian Dictionary of Biography\u003c\/em\u003e, Manning Clark's \u003cem\u003eHistory of Australia\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Encyclopaedia of New Guinea\u003c\/em\u003e, and the journal \u003cem\u003eMeanjin\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUsing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46631851589868,"sku":"9780522878097","price":63.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3915513482374.jpg?v=1751984939","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/mup-by-stuart-kells-9780522878097","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}