Dan Shutt

Dan Shutt – Editor

History, politics, economics and general social sciences specialist with a long list of titles for the world's best publishers.

Overview

Obscure history and nuanced political theory are my bread and butter. My editing always aims to preserve the author's voice, for nobody is better at telling the story than the storyteller – I just make sure that spelling, grammar, punctuation and rhythm are perfect along the way.


I am really easy to work with and will guide you through the whole process, including sharing my experience of other stages of the self-publishing journey.


Current and past clients include Cambridge University Press, Taylor & Francis, Thomson Reuters, Goldsmiths Press, Zed Books and many academic journals and independent publishers.


Get in touch – I'd love to hear about your project!

Services
Non-Fiction
Art Economics History Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies Philosophy Political Science & Current Affairs
Fiction
Classics Poetry
Languages
English (UK) English (US)
Certifications
  • Law (LLB)

Work experience

Self-employed

Apr, 2016 — Present

A long list of big, small, corporate and individual clients has seen me editing everything from medieval poetry collections and graphic novels to intricate economic analysis and epic histories of Eastern political philosophy.

Most of my titles go on to become key texts in their field.

IB Tauris

Sep, 2015 — Jul, 2016 (10 months)

Project management and production co-ordination for titles covering history, politics, economics and current affairs.

IB Tauris is a highly respected publisher of niche history and cultural studies.

Thomson Reuters

Jul, 2014 — Sep, 2015 (about 1 year)

The editorial workhorse and writing expert for materials published by Thomson Reuters' Practical Law service, aimed at practising lawyers and legal academics.

Bradshaw Books

Jan, 2014 — Jun, 2014 (5 months)

The commissioning of poetry collections, project management, editing and launch parties.

Portfolio

Children in the Bible and the Ancient World: Comparative and Historical Methods in Reading Ancient Children (Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East)

The topic of children in the Bible has long been under-represented, but this has recently changed with the development of childhood studies in broader fields, and the work of several dedicated... read more
Copy Editing
Primary Elections in the United States

Shigeo Hirano

The direct primary stands as one of the most significant and distinctive political reforms of the Progressive era in American history. In this book, the authors provide the most comprehensive ... read more
Copy Editing
International and Transnational Crime and Justice

International crime and justice is an emerging field that covers crime and justice from a global perspective. This book introduces the nature of international and transnational crimes, theoret... read more
Copy Editing
Exhibitions for Social Justice (Museum Meanings)

Elena Gonzales

Exhibitions for Social Justice assesses the state of curatorial work for social justice in the Americas and Europe today. Analyzing best practices and new curatorial work to support all those ... read more
Copy Editing
Phone & Spear: A Yuta Anthropology (Goldsmiths Press)

Miyarrka Media

A visually striking intercultural exploration of the use of mobile phones in Aboriginal communities in Australia. Yuta is the Yolngu word for new. Phone & Spear: A Yuta Anthropology is a proje... read more
Copy Editing
Atomic Junction: Nuclear Power in Africa after Independence

Abena Dove Osseo-Asare

After Atomic Junction, along the Haatso-Atomic Road there lies the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, home to Africa's first nuclear programme after independence. Travelling along this road, Abena Dove Osseo-Asare gathers together stories of conflict and compromi... read more
The Political Economy of Housing Financialization (Comparative Political Economy)

Gregory W. Fuller

The US subprime mortgage crisis that nearly brought the global financial system to its knees clearly showed that household debt management, particularly of mortgage debt, in the chain of promises to repay borrowed money, is critical for the stability of the na... read more
Brexit: Its Necessity and Challenge

Tony Kosuge

With the arrival of the 21st century, many in the City of London believed a new Golden Age of Capitalism was finally approaching. All the ambitious projects of the Big Bang were remarkably progressing across the globe. As pay scales in the financial sector con... read more
The Anger Gap: How Race Shapes Emotion in Politics

Davin L. Phoenix

Anger is a powerful mobilizing force in American politics on both sides of the political aisle, but does it motivate all groups equally? This book offers a new conceptualization of anger as a political resource that mobilizes black and white Americans differen... read more
Theorizing Confucian Virtue Politics: The Political Philosophy of Mencius and Xunzi

Sungmoon Kim

Surprisingly little is known about what ancient Confucian thinkers struggled with in their own social and political contexts and how these struggles contributed to the establishment and further development of classical Confucian political theory. Leading schol... read more
Quagmire in Civil War

Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl

Our understanding of civil war is shot through with the spectre of quagmire, a situation that traps belligerents, compounding and entrenching war's dangers. Despite the subject's importance, its causes are obscure. A pervasive "folk" notion that quagmire is in... read more
The Soviet Colossus

Michael G. Kort

The Soviet Colossus revisits the turning points in Russia’s modern history, from the fall of the tsarist regime to the establishment of the Bolshevik dictatorship and Stalinist totalitarianism; the reforms and counter-reforms of Khrushchev and Brezhnev to the ... read more
Postdevelopment in Practice (Routledge Critical Development Studies)

Postdevelopment in Practice critically engages with recent trends in postdevelopment and critical development studies that have destabilised the concept of development, challenging its assumptions and exposing areas where it has failed in its objectives, whils... read more
Materialism

Robin Brown

The doctrine of materialism is one of the most controversial in the history of ideas. For much of its history it has been aligned with toleration and enlightened thinking, but it has also aroused strong, often violent, passions amongst both its opponents and p... read more
The Politics of Military Families: State, Work Organizations, and the Rise of the Negotiation Household (Cass Military Studies)

This book examines the politics of military families in relation to the tensions between the state, military organization, and private life.It elaborates on the tensions between the advent of challenging worldwide deployment for the military and the prominence... read more
Healthcare Politics and Policy in America: 2014

Kant Patel

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the ways that health policy has been shaped by the political, socioeconomic, and ideological environment of the United States. The roles played by public and private, institutional and individual actors in desi... read more
Rethinking Research in the Art Museum

Emily Pringle

Rethinking Research in the Art Museum presents an original and radical perspective on how research can function as an agent of change in art museums today. The book analyses a range of art organisations and draws on numerous interviews with museum professional... read more
The Water Footprint of Modern Consumer Society (Earthscan Water Text)

Arjen Y. Hoekstra

Using the water footprint concept, this impactful book aids our understanding of how we can reduce water consumption and pollution to sustainable levels. Since the publication of the first edition, the question of how to reduce our water footprint has become e... read more
The Essentials of Instructional Design

Abbie Brown

The Essentials of Instructional Design, 3rd Edition introduces the essential elements of instructional design (ID) to students who are new to ID. The key procedures within the ID process―learner analysis, task analysis, needs analysis, developing goals and obj... read more
Music, Language and Identity in Greece: Defining a National Art Music in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London Book 21)

The national element in music has been the subject of important studies, yet the scholarly framework has remained restricted almost exclusively to the field of music studies. This volume brings together experts from different fields (musicology, literary theory a... read more
The Design of Urban Manufacturing

Nina Rappaport

American cities are rediscovering the economic and social value of urban manufacturing. However, urban manufacturing is often invisible and poorly understood in terms of urban design, architecture, and policy. The Design of Urban Manufacturing brings a multidi... read more
Jihadism, Foreign Fighters and Radicalization in the EU: Legal, Functional and Psychosocial Responses (Contemporary Terrorism Studies)

Comparative Paradiplomacy (Federalism Studies)

Jorge A Schiavon

Behind the Scenes at the Ballets Russes: Stories from a Silver Age

Michael Meylac

The Ballets Russes was perhaps the most iconic, yet at the same time mysterious, ballet company of the twentieth century. Inspired by the unique vision of their founder Sergei Diaghilev, the company gained a large international following. In the mid-twentieth ... read more
Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Language: The Legacy of the Philosophical Investigations

Thomas McNally

Throughout his philosophical development, Wittgenstein was more concerned with language than with any other topic. No other philosopher has been as influential on our understanding of the deep problems surrounding language, and yet the true significance of his... read more
The US-Japan Security Community: Theoretical Understanding of Transpacific Relationships (Routledge Studies on the Asia-Pacific Region)

Hidekazu Sakai

The Routledge Companion to Coopetition Strategies (Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting)

Catholic Mediations in Southern Europe: The Invisible Politics of Religion (Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics)

Xabier Itçaina

Contemporary Nigerian Politics: Competition in a Time of Transition and Terror

A. Carl LeVan

The Children's Fire: Heart song of a people

Mac Macartney

Poverty as Ideology: Rescuing Social Justice from Global Development Agendas (International Studies in Poverty Research)

Andrew Fischer

Water Distribution System Monitoring: A Practical Approach for Evaluating Drinking Water Quality

Abigail F. Cantor

Metabolic Structure and Regulation: A Neoclassical Approach

Raymond S. Ochs

Ecological Risk Assessment: Innovative Field and Laboratory Studies

Lawrence V. Tannenbaum

An Archaeology of the English Atlantic World, 1600 – 1700

Charles E. Orser Jr.

Redefining European Economic Integration (Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy)

Dariusz Adamski

European economic integration has relied on policies intended to make the European Union strong and resilient economically, socially and politically. The Eurozone crisis and Brexit have demonstrated, however, how fragile this hope was and how contested reforms... read more
The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History

Anne C. Bailey

In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, durin... read more
Courts and Democracies in Asia (Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy)

Po Jen Yap

What is the relationship between the strength of a country's democracy and the ability of its courts to address deficiencies in the electoral process? Drawing a distinction between democracies that can be characterised as 'dominant-party' (for example Singapor... read more
The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)

The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression presents the current state of knowledge related to the study of violent behaviors and aggression. An important extension of the first Handbook published ten years ago, the second edition maintains a dis... read more
Speech and Society in Turbulent Times: Freedom of Expression in Comparative Perspective

This volume explores how societies are addressing challenging questions about the relationship between expression, traditional and societal values, and the transformations introduced by new information communications technologies. It seeks to identify alternat... read more

Dan has 16 reviews

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Larry Z.

Larry Z.

Mar, 2024

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Outstanding editing, detail oriented. Dan was able to take competent work and make it elegant! He also effectively challenged some of the assertions in my manuscript forcing me (to my great benefit) to reevaluate portions of my work. Very responsive and helpful.
Dan S.
Great to read your review, Larry. Yours was one of the best projects I've worked on in a very long time! All the best.
Harold M.

Harold M.

Nov, 2023

Pinned
Had a great experience with Dan. The detail that he brought to my project was impressive. Scrubbed and polished my manuscript to a shine. Thank you sir!
John D.

John D.

Apr, 2023

Pinned
Dan gave me exactly the developmental review I needed. He was very professional and easy to work with. I'm continuing our collaboration. Thanks Dan!
Alistair H.

Alistair H.

Nov, 2024

Dan did a great editing job. He was prompt, clear in his direction, thorough. When one problem arose, it was resolved cleanly and quickly. Really no problem at all. I would definitely recommend him to anyone and hire him again. 10/10.
Alan U.

Alan U.

Aug, 2024

I am a republican businessman in the US, trying to write a book about how to create a consumer movement, which hinges on creating a label on products sold in the US, with percentage of content by country, and our trade ratio with them. This editor is from and living in Europe, so a lot of his comments, from a different perspective. It added breath to the work, but as I am trying to promote US ...
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