Manchester University Press: 1049 books
Popular virtue
Continuity and change in Radical moral politics, 1820–70
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Popular virtue is the first in-depth study of the changing nature of moral politics within working-class Radicalism between 1820 and 1870. Through study of the lives, activism and intellectual influences of a number of key leaders of working-class Radicalism, this book highlights how Radicalism's...
Sounds of liberty
Music, radicalism and reform in the Anglophone world, 1790–1914
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Throughout the long nineteenth-century the sounds of liberty resonated across the Anglophone world. Focusing on radicals and reformers committed to the struggle for a better future, this book explores the role of music in the transmission of political culture over time and distance. Following in the...
Science, race relations and resistance
Britain, 1870–1914
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
By exploring the dimensions of race, race relations and resistance, this book offers a new account of the British Empire’s greatest failure and its most disturbing legacy. Using a wide range of published and archival sources, this study of racial discourse from 1870 to 1914 argues that race, then...
The ethics of war
Second edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
The ethics of war explores the moral limits and possibilities of conflict. The argument proceeds from a just war standpoint which balances rules or principles against the moral capacities and dispositions of belligerents and the particular circumstances in which they act. In this enlarged second edition,...
Human remains and identification
Mass violence, genocide, and the ‘forensic turn’
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
A pioneering investigation into the practices and methodologies used in the search for and exhumation of dead bodies resulting from mass violence.
by Michael Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This book offers a critical consideration of the apology in politics. It provides a detailed overview of all aspects of the phenomenon of the apology made by states, which has increased significantly since the mid-1980s. It is the product of a decade’s research and reflection on the subject and...
Evaluating parental power
An exercise in pluralist political theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Anarchism 1914–18 is the first systematic analysis of anarchist responses to the First World War. It examines the interventionist debate between Peter Kropotkin and Errico Malatesta which split the anarchist movement in 1914 and provides a historical and conceptual analysis of debates conducted...
History, heritage, and colonialism
Historical consciousness, Britishness, and cultural identity in New Zealand, 1870–1940
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Explores the politics of history-making and interest in preserving the material remnants of the past in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century colonial society, looking at both indigenous pasts and those of European origin.
by Hilary Hinds
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
What was distinctive about the founding principles and practices of Quakerism? In George Fox and Early Quaker Culture, Hilary Hinds explores how the Light Within became the organizing principle of this seventeenth-century movement, inaugurating an influential dissolution of the boundary between the...
Doubting sex
Inscriptions, bodies and selves in nineteenth-century hermaphrodite case histories
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
This groundbreaking analysis of nineteenth-century European clinical case histories of hermaphrodites shows how sex changed from an outward appearance inscribed in a social body to something to be found deep inside body and self.
Stacking the coffins
Influenza, war and revolution in Ireland, 1918–19
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
The 1918-19 influenza pandemic disrupted Irish society and politics. Stilling cities and towns as it passed through, it closed schools, courts and libraries, quelled trade, crammed hospitals, and stretched medical doctors to their limit as they treated hundreds of patients each day. It became part...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
This book explores Irish experiences of medicine and health during the First and Second World Wars, the War of Independence and the Civil War. It examines the physical, mental and emotional impact of conflict on Irish political and social life, as well as medical, scientific and official interventions...
Northern Ireland in the Second World War
Politics, economic mobilisation and society, 1939–45
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Surveys the political, economic and social history of Northern Ireland in the Second World War
The civil service and the revolution in Ireland 1912–1938
Shaking the blood-stained hand of Mr Collins'
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book is a history of the Irish civil service and its response to revolutionary changes in the State. It examines the response of the civil service to the threat of partition, World War, the emergence of the revolutionary forces of Dáil Éireann and the IRA through to the Civil War and the Irish...