Manchester University Press: 1049 books
Ireland during the Second World War
Farewell to Plato’s Cave
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The first book detailing the social and economic history of Ireland during the Second World War
The art of the possible
Politics and governance in modern British history, 1885–1997: Essays in memory of Duncan Tanner
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Explores some of the major transitions, opportunities and false dawns of modern British political history. It engages with the scholarly legacy of Professor Duncan Tanner (1958–2010) whose work was focused on the political process and on politics in government.
Network neutrality
From policy to law to regulation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Net neutrality is the most contested Internet access policy of our time. This book offers an in-depth explanation of the concept, addressing its history since 1999, its engineering, the policy challenges it represents and its legislation and regulation. Various case studies are presented, including...
Licensed larceny
Infrastructure, financial extraction and the global South
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
The growing wealth gap is best viewed as a proxy for how for how effectively elites have constructed institutions that extract value from the rest of society. For inequality is not just a problem of poverty and the poor; it is as much a problem of wealth and the rich. The provision of public services...
Time, work and leisure
Life changes in England since 1700
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This book traces the history of the relationship between work and leisure, from the ‘leisure preference’ of male workers in the eighteenth century, through the increase in working hours in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to their progressive decline from 1830 to 1970. It examines...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Slavery and the slavery business have cast a long shadow over British history. In 1833, abolition was heralded as evidence of Britain’s claim to be the modern global power. Yet much is still unknown about the significance of the slavery business and emancipation in the formation of modern imperial...
by Katrina Navickas
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers’ rights in northern England. It is a provocative narrative of the closing down of public space and dispossession from place. The book offers historical parallels for contemporary debates about protests in...
The neurologists
A history of a medical specialty in modern Britain, c.1789–2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Describes how Victorian physicians located in a medical culture that privileged general knowledge over narrow specialism came to be transformed into the specialised physicians we now call neurologists
British queer history
New approaches and perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This collection of essays takes stock of the ‘new British queer history’. It is intended both for scholars and students of British social and cultural history and of the history of sexuality, and for a broader readership interested in queer issues. In offering a snapshot of the field, this volume...
German politics today
Third edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This revised and updated third edition provides readers with a comprehensive description and analysis of the German political system, and of the political behaviour within the context of that system. It surveys the historical development of German politics, including the background, processes and...
by James W. Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
This book offers a step-by-step analysis of key stages in the development of the Russian-American relationship since the late Cold War. Through its lenses one can perceive the roots of the Crimean crisis of 2014 as well as the path to a more promising future for the two global powers as well as the world.
How to save politics in a post-truth era
Thinking through difficult times
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
The rise of populism, Donald Trump's election and the result of the EU referendum in the UK have been widely interpreted as a rejection of the post-war liberal order – the manifestation of a desire to undermine the political system that people feel has let them down. Yet mainstream politicians and...
The impact of the Troubles on the Republic of Ireland, 1968–79
Boiling volcano?
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
This book tells the story of how the war in Northern Ireland threatened to engulf the Republic. It explains how popular opinion responded to the crisis from marching in solidarity with nationalists to increasing disengagement and fear.
The politics of constitutional nationalism in Northern Ireland, 1932–70
Between grievance and reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
In the changed political landscape of Northern Ireland, where all major political parties with a nationalist agenda are now reconciled to the use of peaceful and constitutional means to achieve their objectives, this book presents a timely analysis of the constitutional nationalist tradition in Northern...