Manchester University Press: 1049 books
by Matt Qvortrup
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Referendums are ubiquitous; from Brexit in the United Kingdom in 2016 to same-sex marriage in Australia in 2017 Why are referendums held at all? And when they are held, why are they won or lost? Moreover, what are the consequences of having referendums? Do they strengthen or weaken democracy? Are...
New Labour and the European Union
Blair and Brown's logic of history
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
This book explores Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's attempt to sell the European ideal to the British people. New Labour came to power in 1997 promising to modernize the country and make it fit for the twenty-first century. In foreign policy, Blair and Brown set about rethinking core components of the...
British National Identity and Opposition to Membership of Europe, 1961-63
The Anti-Marketeers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the opponents of Britain's first attempt to join the European Economic Community (EEC), between the announcement of Harold Macmillan's new policy initiative in July 1961 and General de Gaulle's veto of Britain's application for membership in January 1963....
Exploring history 1400-1900
An anthology of primary sources
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Exploring history 1400-1900: An anthology of primary sources reaches out to the reader across an expanse of 500 years. It offers a broad sweep of history in the light of three key themes: consumers and producers; beliefs and ideologies; and state-formation. Spanning continents and genres, the selection...
Rebel by vocation
Seán O'Faoláin and the generation of The Bell
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
This is a comprehensive study of one of the most influential literary groups in post-independence Ireland: the writers and editors of the literary magazine The Bell. Seán O'Faoláin and the generation of writers that matured in the shadows of W. B. Yeats and James Joyce dominated the literary landscape...
Art and Its Global Histories
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
The Reader Art and Its Global Histories represents an invaluable teaching tool, offering content ranging from academic essays and excerpts, new translations, interviews with curators and artists, to art criticism. The introduction sets out the state of art history today as it undergoes the profound...
by Richard H. Robbins, Tim Di Muzio
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Debt as Power is a timely and innovative contribution to our understanding of one of the most prescient issues of our time: the explosion of debt across the global economy and related requirement of political leaders to pursue exponential growth to meet the demands of creditors and investors. The...
Mainstreaming Co-Operation
An Alternative for the Twenty-First Century?
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
After decades of flying beneath the radar, co-operation as a principle of business and socio-economic organisation is moving from the margins of economic, social and political thought into the mainstream. In both the developed and developing world, co-operative models are increasingly viewed as central...
Lehman Brothers
A Crisis of Value
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Using extensive documentary evidence and interviews with former Lehman employees, Oonagh McDonald reveals the decisions that led to Lehman's collapse, investigates why the government refused a bail-out and whether the implications of this refusal were fully understood. In clear and accessible language she demonstrates both the short and long term effects of Lehman's collapse
The Regulation of Standards in British Public Life
Doing the Right Thing?
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
One of the most profound changes in British public life over the last twenty years has been the increasing concern with probity and standards. Some of that concern has been the product of scandals such as the cash for questions affair and the expenses scandal; some of it reflects the erosion of trust...
Integration in Ireland
The Everyday Lives of African migrants
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The integration of new immigrants is one of the most important issues in Europe, yet not enough is known about the lives of migrants. This book draws on several years of ethnographic research with African migrants in Ireland, many of whom are former asylum seekers. Against the widespread assumptions...
The Factory in a Garden
A History of Corporate Landscapes from the Industrial to the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
When we think about Victorian factories, 'Dark Satanic Mills' might spring to mind - images of blackened buildings and exhausted, exploited workers struggling in unhealthy and ungodly conditions. But for some employees this image was far from the truth, and this is the subject of 'The Factory in a...
A New Imperative
Regions and higher education in difficult times
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
At a time in history when global challenges are becoming more intractable and threatening, it makes sense to draw on the specialist expertise of our universities. Much of government interest in doing so has typically focused on the major research institutions with their records of new discovery and...
Democracy in Crisis
Violence, Alterity, Community
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This volume explores the political implications of violence and alterity (radical difference) for the practice of democracy, and reformulates the possibility of community that democracy is said to entail. Most significantly, contributors intervene in traditional democratic theory by boldly contesting...