Manchester University Press: 1049 books
by Laura Cahillane
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Drafting the Irish Free State Constitution challenges the myths surrounding the Irish Free Constitution by analysing the document in its proper historical context, by looking at how the Constitution was drafted and elucidating the true nature of the document. It examines the reasons why the Constitution...
by Philip Tew
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Jim Crace is one of the most imaginative of contemporary novelists. The author of nine novels, he has received great public and intellectual acclaim across the UK, Europe, Australia and the United States. He was awarded the National Book Critics’ Circle Fiction prize (USA) for Being Dead in 2000....
In/security in Colombia
Writing political identities in the Democratic Security Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
A fascinating and comprehensive analysis of the official security discourse in Colombia, this book investigates discursive and material practices that write the identities of state, self and others.
The craft of writing in sociology
Developing the argument in undergraduate essays and dissertations
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This is an indispensable companion for students studying sociology and related disciplines, such as politics and human geography, as well as courses which draw upon sociological writing, such as nursing, social psychology or health studies. It demystifies the process of constructing coherent and powerful...
A minority and the state
Travellers in Britain in the twentieth century
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This is a new paperback edition of Becky Taylor's history of Britain's travelling communities in the twentieth century. It draws together detailed archival research at local and national level to explore the impact of state and legislative developments on Travellers, as well as their experience of...
Britain's lost revolution?
Jacobite Scotland and French grand strategy, 1701–8
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This book is a frontal attack on an entrenched orthodoxy. Our official, public vision of the early eighteenth century demonises Louis XIV and France and marginalises the Scots Jacobites. Louis is seen as an incorrigibly imperialistic monster and the enemy of liberty and all that is good and progressive....
Images of Africa
Creation, negotiation and subversion
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Challenges the widely-held idea that Africans are powerless in the creation of self-image. It explores the ways in which image creation is a process of negotiation entered into by a wide range of actors within and beyond the continent.
by Keith Hodgson
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
In the years between the two world wars, fascism triumphed in Italy, Germany, Spain and elsewhere, coming to power after intense struggles with the labour movements of those countries.
This book analyses the way in which the British left responded to this new challenge. How did socialists and...
The Model Arab League manual
A guide to preparation and performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the Model Arab League (MAL) programme for first time and returning students. Drawing on over fourteen years of combined experience in successfully leading award-winning MAL delegations, Philip D’Agati and Holly A. Jordan provide students with an...
Race and the Obama Administration
Substance, symbols and hope
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
The election of Barack Obama marked a critical point in American political and social history. Did the historic election of a black president actually change the status of blacks in the United States? Did these changes (or lack thereof) inform blacks' perceptions of the President? This book explores...
Corruption in contemporary politics
A new travel guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
The book provides an accessible account of the significance of political corruption, its causes, consequences and remedies.
The American bomb in Britain
US Air Forces' strategic presence, 1946–64
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
This study tells the story of the strategic nuclear forces deployed to England by the United States from the late 1940s, and details the secret agreement made to launch atomic strikes against the USSR. Drawing on more than a decade's research in archives on both sides of the Atlantic, hitherto unknown...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
This edited collection surveys how non-Western states have responded to the threats of domestic and international terrorism in ways consistent with and reflective of their broad historical, political, cultural and religious traditions. It presents a series of eighteen case studies of counterterrorism...
Transatlantic defiance
The militant Irish republican movement in America, 1923–45
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Examines the militant Irish republican movement in the United States from the final months of the Irish Civil War through to the Second World War