Manchester University Press: 1049 books
by Conor Mulvagh
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
The key to understanding the emergence of the independent Irish state lies in the history of Home Rule. This book offers the most comprehensive examination to date of the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) at Westminster during the years of John Redmond's chairmanship, 1900-18. The IPP were both the...
Gender, rhetoric and regulation
Women's work in the Civil Service and the London County Council, 1900–55
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
The Civil Service and the London County Council employed tens of thousands of women in Britain in the early twentieth century. As public employers these institutions influenced both each other and private organisations, thereby serving as a barometer or benchmark for the conditions of women’s white-collar...
American Government in Ireland, 1790–1913
A history of the US consular service
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book reconstructs American consular activity in Ireland from 1790 to 1913 and elucidates the interconnectedness of America’s foreign interests, Irish nationalism and British imperialism
The age of internationalism and Belgium, 1880–1930
Peace, progress and prestige
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Belgium was a major hub for transnational movements. By taking this small and yet significant European country as a focal point, the book critically examines major issues in modern history, including nationalism, colonial expansion, debates on the nature of international relations and campaigns for...
by Harry Blutstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The ascent of globalisation tells the sweeping historical drama of the development of globalisation, from the Second World War to the present day.
The story is told through the richly detailed accounts of eighteen remarkable men and women, describing how these architects reshaped the modern...
EU foreign and security policy in Bosnia
The politics of coherence and effectiveness
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This book represents the first ever comprehensive study of the EU’s foreign and security policy in Bosnia. Drawing on a wealth of fresh empirical material, it demonstrates that institutions are a key variable in explaining levels of common foreign security policy (CFSP) coherence and effectiveness...
The Europeanisation of Conflict Resolutions
Regional integration and conflicts from the 1950s to the 21st century
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book is about the EU’s role in conflict resolution and reconciliation in Europe. It examines critically important cases: the exemplary process of the Franco-German reconciliation during the 1950s, the EU’s involvement in reconstructing peace in Northern Ireland, the conflict in Cyprus, and Kosovo’s independence.
by Alexandra Kelso
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
An authoritative analysis of the trajectory and outcome of reform of the UK parliament across the past century, addressing significant debates about the balance of executive-legislative relations in Britain, and which employs historical and institutional perspectives for the purposes of analysing and explaining political change at Westminster.
by Mark Hampton
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This book examines the British cultural engagement with Hong Kong in the second half of the twentieth century. It shows how the territory fit unusually within Britain’s decolonisation narratives and served as an occasional foil for examining Britain’s own culture during a period of perceived stagnation...
Conservative orators
From Baldwin to Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
How do leading Conservative politicians strive to communicate with and influence the electorate? Why have some been more effective than others in advancing their personal positions and ideological agendas? How do they seek to connect with their audience in different settings, such as the party conference,...
Defining events
Power, resistance and identity in twenty-first-century Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This book re-visits and re-thinks some recent defining events in Irish society. Each chapter focuses on an event that has occurred since the start of the twenty first century. Some were high profile, some were ‘fringe’ events, others were widely discussed in popular culture at the time. A number...
Lobbying
The dark side of politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Is lobbying, particularly by ‘lobbyists for hire’, resulting in a distortion of the democratic process? Does business, with its highly sophisticated and well-resourced lobbying operations, have an undue influence on decisions by politicians? The book assess the impact of lobbying on the UK political...
Re-evaluating Irish national security policy
Affordable threats?
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
On the afternoon of September 11 2001 the Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach), Bertie Ahern ordered the ‘heads of the security services of key government departments’ to undertake a complete re-evaluation of measures to protect the state from attack. Hence, underway within hours of the 9/11 outrage...
Devolution and the Scottish Conservatives
Banal activism, electioneering and the politics of irrelevance
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
A unique ethnographic study of Party political activism exploring how Conservative Party activists who had opposed devolution and the movement for a Scottish Parliament during the 1990s attempted to mobilise politically following their annihilation at the 1997 General Election