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Leopolis Press was created in February, 2000 by Adam B. Ulam, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, and Director of the Russian Research Center, at Harvard, during his final illness, in order to publish his last and 20th book, Understanding the Cold War: A Historian's Personal Reflections. Leopolis means "Lion City" and was the medieval Latin name for Lwów, the Polish city where he was born and lived for seventeen years. It had the lion as its emblem. Leopolis Press published a remarkable book in the spring of 2002. Through a chain of connections reaching back to Adam Ulam's childhood in Lwów, an extraordinary manuscript came to light. Titled Life Death Memories, it is the memoir of a Jewish boy, Thomas T. Hecht, who grew up in a shtetl in southeastern Poland, in a culture that World War II obliterated. |
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In late 2002, Leopolis Press began a collaboration with the Kosciuszko Chair at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, the University of Virginia, to publish a collection of scholarly papers on the transition of Poland to a contemporary European democracy. For this project, Leopolis Press provided its editorial, book design and production capabilities; and the Kosciuszko Chair furnished the text and the basic plan of the book. Leopolis Press offers strong editorial and book design capabilities, and an established relationship with a major printing company. Its typographic engineer has developed exclusive extensions to LaTeX, a very powerful typesetting and document preparation software system that is particuarly good at typesetting mathematics and other technical material and can handle very effectively languages other than English. Using LaTeX, Leopolis can provide a wide selection of fonts and any kind of formatting. Working in collaboration with academic institutes, foundations, and individual university departments or faculties, Leopolis Press now offers the publication of small editions of scholarly works, in the interest of the dissemination of new knowledge and the achievement of publication credentials for emerging scholars. And the Press can do this at a comprehensive price per copy to the participating institution. The Press invites inquiries. |
Spanish Carlism and Polish Nationalism: The Borderlands of Europe In the 19th and 20th Centuries: Edited by Marek Jan Chodakiewicz and John Radzilowski 160pp, $14.95 ISBN 0-9679960-5-8 Order by e-mail or call 434-979-7344 or 434-977-3101, or go to this book's page on Amazon. "As every schoolboy knows, Europe's Catholic Right has consisted of reactionaries who began in the service of residual feudal landowners and ended in support of big capital's exploitation and oppression of the masses. . . [T]he totalitarian horrors of the twentieth century proved prescient the warnings of the Cathloic Traditionalist Right about the consequences of radical democracy and cultural nihilism. These splendid essays, as readable as they are scholarly, launch a long-overdue assessment of vital political events." Professor Eugene Genovese, former President, The Historical Society |
Old Constantinople (above). Portrait of Halide Edib, ca. 1903 (r.). |
House with Wisteria: Memoirs of Halide Edib Introduction by Sibel Erol, New York University 448pp, $19.95 , plus $5.00 for shipping. ISBN 0-9679960-3-1 Order by e-mail or call 434-979-7344 or 434-977-3101 or go to this book's page on Amazon. "Halide Edib lived through the most turbulent times in modern Turkish history. Most unusually for a woman of her day, she did so not only as an eye witness, but as an active political participant. She was on close personal terms with powerful leaders such as Talat Pasha and Ataturk, but retained a critical and independent mind. All this gives her memoirs their unique character." E. J. Zurcher, Leiden University  |
