Sussex Academic Press
Founded	1994; 30 years ago (1994)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Headquarters location	Eastbourne
Key people	Anthony Grahame (editorial director)
Publication types	Books
Nonfiction topics	Humanities and Social Sciences
Imprints	The Alpha Press
Official website	www.sussex-academic.com (United Kingdom)

Sussex Academic Press, founded in 1994, is a publishing company based in Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom.^[1] It initially specialised in Middle East studies.^[2]

The house published books on issues of contemporary relevance and debate in Middle East topics,^[3] Theology & Religion,^[3] History (especially Portuguese, Spanish and Huguenot history),^[1] and Literary Criticism,^[3] as well as Latin American, First Nations, and Asian studies.^[3]

Its series on the Portuguese-Speaking World: Its History, Politics and Culture is under the editorship of António Costa Pinto, Onésimo T. Almeida and Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo.^[3]

In 2022, Liverpool University Press (LUP) announced its acquisition of Sussex Academic Press as part of its digital publishing strategy, allowing it access to Sussex Academic Press's 1,000-book backlist.^[2]

Authors and publications

Bel, Germà (2012): Infrastructure and the political economy of nation building in Spain 1720–2010
Blocksidge, Martin (2013): The banker poet: the rise and fall of Samuel Rogers, 1763–1855
Britton, R. K. (2019): Don Quixote and the Subversive Tradition of Golden Age Spain
Graham, Helen (2014): The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century
Jordan, Bill (2001): Who Cares for Planet Earth?: The Con in Conservation
Laskier, Michael M., & Ronen Yitzhak (2023): Israel and the Mediterranean: Five Decades of Uneasy Coexistence
Lowe, Sid (2010). Catholicism, War and the Foundation of Francoism: The Juventud De Acción Popular in Spain, 1931-1939
Petersen, Tore T. (2009): Richard Nixon, Great Britain and the Anglo-American Alignment in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula: Making Allies out of Clients^[4]
Purcell, Hugh & Smith, Phyll (2012): The Last English Revolutionary: Tom Wintringham 1898-1949
Shapira, Anita et al. (2014): The Nation State and Immigration
Smith, Donna (2012): Sex, Lies and Politics: Gay Politicians and the Press^[5]
Townson, Nigel, ed. (2015): Is Spain Different? A Comparative Look at the 19th and 20th Centuries^[6]
Vigne, Randolph, & Charles Littleton (2001): From Strangers to Citizens: The Integration of Immigrant Communities in Britain, Ireland and Colonial America, 1550–1750

References

^ ^a ^b "Book publishers UK and Ireland", Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. ISBN 1399406574, 9781399406574. Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2023, p. 181. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
^ ^a ^b Cumerford, Ruth (6 September 2022). "LUP acquires Sussex Academic Press". The Bookseller. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Sussex Academic Press". Independent Publishers Group (IPG). Chicago Review Press, Inc. ipg.com. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
^ Kéchichian, Joseph A. (2010). Review. Cambridge Core. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
^ Bell, Christopher M. (2013). Review. Journal of British Studies, Volume 52, Issue 3, July 2013, pp. 818–819. Cambridge Core. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
^ Lawrence, Mark (2017). Review. History: The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 102, Issue 352, October 2017, pp. 711–712. Wiley Online Library. Retrieved 12 March 2023.