Manchester University Press: 1049 books
by Derek Birrell
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This is the first comprehensive study of direct rule as the system of governance which operated in Northern Ireland for most of the period between 1972 and 2007. The major institutions of governance are described and examined in detail, including the often neglected sectors of the role of the Westminster...
Sport and technology
An actor-network theory perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
How do new technologies come to be used in sport? This book moves beyond the idea of functionality to explore the many other important factors that athletes and sporting bodies consider throughout the process of adoption.
Few would question the difficulty of producing an elite athletic performance....
David Cameron and Conservative renewal
The limits of modernisation?
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
Offering a new overview of the Conservative modernisation project, this book assesses the efforts of David Cameron and his colleagues to rebuild the British Conservative Party in the period since 2005.
by Douglas Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This is the first book-length study wholly devoted to assessing the array of ties between Scotland and the Caribbean that bound the Atlantic World together in the later eighteenth century.
Four from the forties
Arliss, Crabtree, Knowles and Huntington
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
This is a book for those who love British cinema and want to know more about its rise to popularity in the 1940s. The ‘quality’ films of the decade have been thoroughly explored already, but this book looks at the films the public actually went to see, and provides detailed information on the directors behind them.
Repeal and revolution
1848 in Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Repeal and revolution. 1848 in Ireland examines the events that led up to the 1848 rising and examines the reasons for its failure. It places the rising in the context of political changes outside Ireland, especially the links between the Irish nationalists and radicals and republicans in Britain,...
The European Union in Africa
Incoherent policies, asymmetrical partnership, declining relevance?
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The European Union in Africa: Incoherent policies, asymmetrical partnership, declining relevance? provides a comprehensive analysis of EU-Africa relations since the beginning of the twenty-first century and includes contributions from leading experts in the field of EU external relations.
by Andrew Teverson
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most important writers of politicised fiction. He is a self-proclaimed controversialist, capable of exciting radically divergent viewpoints, a novelist of extraordinary imaginative range and power, and an erudite, and often fearless, commentator upon the state...
Race and the Yugoslav region
Postsocialist, post-conflict, postcolonial?
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Thisis the first book to situate the territories and collective identities of former Yugoslavia within the politics of race – not just ethnicity – and the history of how ideas of racialised difference have been translated globally. The book connects critical race scholarship, global historical...
Friendship among nations
History of a concept
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This is a study of friendship in international politics. It offers the history of friendship, and shows the role of friendship in building various legal and political orders on both equal and unequal terms. Told through an examination of sources ranging from diplomatic letters and bilateral treaties to poems and philosophical treatises.
by Sara Mills
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Gender and colonial space is a trenchant analysis of the complex relation between social relations – including notions of class, nationality and gender – and spatial relations, landscape, architecture and topography – in post-colonial contexts. Arguing against much of the psychoanalytic focus...
Why pamper life's complexities?
Essays on The Smiths
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
In this, the first academic text devoted to The Smiths, writers from a range of perspectives set out to consider the cultural significance and enduring appeal of one of the most influential and controversial bands of recent decades.
Northern Ireland and the crisis of anti-racism
Rethinking racism and sectarianism
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Racism and sectarianism makes an important contribution to the discussion on the ‘crisis of anti-racism’ in the United Kingdom. The book looks at two phenomena that are rarely examined together – racism and sectarianism. The author argues that thinking critically about sectarianism and other...
Operation Demetrius and its aftermath
A new history of the use of internment without trial in Northern Ireland 1971–75
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This book examines the use of internment without trial in Northern Ireland between 1971 and 1975. This research provides a more comprehensive account of internment and assesses previously unexplored aspects of its use. The book considers the high politics and intelligence surrounding the introduction...