Manchester University Press: 1049 books
Crossing the floor
Reg Prentice and the crisis of British social democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Reg Prentice remains the most high-profile politician to cross the floor of the House of Commons in the post-war period. His defection reflected an important 'sea change' in British politics; the end of the post-war consensus and the beginnings of the Thatcher era. This book examines the key events...
by Leonie Hannan, Sarah Longair
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
People live in material worlds and the things we make, wear, sit upon, treasure or discard are key to understanding our lives and societies. As material culture is central to human experience, it represents a vital but under-used source for historians. Written in a lively and accessible style, this...
Labour and working-class lives
Essays to celebrate the lie and work of Chris Wrigley
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2017
British labour history has been one of the dominating areas of historical research in the last sixty years and this book, written in honour of Professor Chris Wrigley, offers a collection of essays written by leading British labour historians of that subject including Ken Brown, Malcolm Chase and...
Emile and Isaac Pereire
Bankers, Socialists and Sephardic Jews in nineteenth-century France
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Emile (1800–75) and Isaac Pereire (1806–80) were pivotal and sensational figures, their lives and careers a lens through which to re-examine the history of France in the nineteenth century. Among the first generation of Jews emancipated by the French Revolution, they became significant Saint-Simonians,...
The stadium century
Sport, spectatorship and mass society in modern France
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The stadium century traces the history of stadia and mass spectatorship in modern France from the vélodromes of the late nineteenth century to the construction of the Stade de France before the 1998 soccer World Cup. As the book demonstrates, the stadium was at the centre of debates over public health...
Kitty Marion
Actor and activist
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
With the outbreak of World War I, German-born Kitty Marion, suspected of being a German spy and placed under surveillance, sailed from Liverpool for New York. She left a dramatic and colourful life behind: a hectic and fascinating 20-year career as a performer crisscrossing Britain first as a singer,...
by Steve Blandford
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The first complete study of one of Britain's leading television writers, Jimmy McGovern. With chapters covering series such as Brookside, Cracker, The Street and Accused, the book also analyses a key period in the history of television drama.
The Great Exhibition, 1851
A sourcebook
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2017
An invaluable compendium of sources relating to the Great Exhibition
Heroic imperialists in Africa
The promotion of British and French colonial heroes, 1870–1939
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
From the height of ‘New Imperialism’ until the Second World War, three generations of heroes of the British and French empires in Africa were selected, manufactured and packaged for consumption by a metropolitan public eager to discover new horizons and to find comfort in the concept of a ‘civilising...
Alternative countrysides
Anthropological approaches to rural Western Europe today
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
A fresh anthropological look at a central but neglected topic: the profound changes in rural life throughout Western Europe today. As locals leave for jobs in cities they are replaced by neo-hippies, lifestyle-seekers, eco-activists, and labour migrants from beyond the EU.
With detailed ethnographic...
Irish women's writing, 1878–1922
Advancing the cause of liberty
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Irish women writers entered the British and international publishing scene in unprecedented numbers in the period between 1878 and 1922. Literary history is only now beginning to give them the attention they deserve for their contributions to the literary landscape of Ireland, which has included far...
Spanish contemporary poetry
An anthology
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
A selection of Spanish peninsular poetry from the 1970s to the present day, with an introductory study of the most relevant poetic trends and poetic groups of the period followed by guided and close readings of each poem.
by Barry Gunter
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This book is about how kids become engaged with brands, and how their relationship with them changes over time as they mature as consumers. Children are introduced to brands at an early age, and they have become increasingly brand conscious. As consumer markets have developed and become more crowded...
Heroes and happy endings
Class, gender, and nation in popular film and fiction in interwar Britain
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Examination of the popular film and fiction consumed by Britons in the 1920s and 1930s