Manchester University Press: 1049 books
by Paddy Hoey
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
This book provides a compelling picture of Irish republican activist media outlets like newspapers, magazines and Internet journals and the role that they played ideologically during the tumultuous years that followed the end of the 30-year civil war that was the Troubles and signing of the Good Friday Agreement.
Spoiling the peace?
The threat of dissident Republicans to peace in Northern Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Assesses the security threat and political challenges offered by dissident Irish republicanism to the Northern Irish peace process.
Abandoning historical conflict?
Former political prisoners and reconciliation in Northern Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Most accounts of the peace process are ‘top-down’, relying upon the views of political elites. This book is ‘bottom-up’, analysing the voices of those who actually ‘fought the war’. What made them fight, why did they stop and what are the lessons for other conflict zones?
Citizen convicts
Prisoners, politics and the vote
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Prisoner enfranchisement remains one of the few contested electoral issues in twenty-first-century democracies. It is at the intersection of punishment and representative government. Many jurisdictions remain divided on whether or not prisoners should be allowed access to the franchise. This book...
Daum's boys
Schools and the Republic of Letters in early modern Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The first English language in-depth study of a footsoldier of the seventeenth-century Republic of Letters. Its subject, the German polymath and schoolteacher Christian Daum, left behind one of the largest private archives of any early modern European scholar.
by Christine Byron
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book provides a critical analysis of the definitions of war crimes and crimes against humanity as construed in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
Imagining Caribbean womanhood
Race, nation and beauty competitions, 1929–70
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean
Leading the localities
Executive mayors in English local governance
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book is the result of national research conducted amongst England’s directly elected mayors and the councillors that serve alongside them. It is the first such major publication to assess the impact on local politics of this new office and fills a gap in our understanding of how the Local Government...
Doubtful and dangerous
The question of succession in late Elizabethan England
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Doubtful and dangerous examines the pivotal influence of the succession question on the politics, religion and culture of the post-Armada years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign. Although the earlier Elizabethan succession controversy has long commanded scholarly attention, the later period has suffered...
Ireland: 1641
Contexts and reactions
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The 1641 rebellion is one of the seminal events in early modern Irish and British history. Its divisive legacy, based primarily on the sharply contested allegation that the rebellion began with a general massacre of Protestant settlers, is still evident in Ireland today. Indeed, the 1641 ‘massacres’,...
The experience of occupation in the Nord, 1914–18
Living with the enemy in First World War France
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Much of the French department of the Nord was occupied during the First World War. This book considers the ways in which occupied locals responded to and understood their situation, focusing on key behaviours adopted...
by Philip Nanton
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
This bold inter-disciplinary study analyses the history, retention and development of frontier processes in the Eastern Caribbean multi-island state of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Banished potentates
Dethroning and exiling indigenous monarchs under British and French colonial rule, 1815–1955
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
An examination of British and French deposition and exile of indigenous monarchs in Asia and Africa from 1815 until the 1950s.
Regarding the real
Cinema, documentary, and the visual arts
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Regarding the real develops an original approach to documentary film, focusing on its aesthetic relations to visual arts such as animation, assemblage, photography, painting and architecture. Throughout, the book considers the work of figures whose preferred film language is associative and fragmentary,...