Manchester University Press: 1049 books
The hippie trail
A history
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2017
This is the first history of the Hippie Trail. It records the joys and pains of budget travel to Kathmandu, India, Afghanistan and other ‘points east’ in the 1960s and 1970s. Written in a clear, simple style, it provides detailed analysis of the motivations and the experiences of hundreds of thousands...
From entertainment to citizenship
Politics and popular culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
From entertainment to citizenship reveals how the young use shows like X-factor to comment on how power ought to be used, and how they respond to those pop stars – like Bono and Bob Geldof – who claim to represent them. It explores how young people connect the pleasures of popular culture to the...
Mega-events and social change
Spectacle, legacy and public culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Contemporary mega-events like Olympics and Expos, together with the organisations which control them, can be risky and controversial projects. This book interprets how they reflect, mark and influence, deeper social changes in the media, cities and global geopolitics.
Beckett on Screen
The television Plays
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This ground-breaking study analyses Beckett’s television plays in relation to the history and theory of television. It argues that they are in dialogue with innovative television traditions connected to Modernism in television, film, radio, theatre, literature and the visual arts.
by Julie Evans, Patricia Grimshaw, David Philips
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This comparative study focuses on the ways in which the British settler colonies of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa treated indigenous peoples in relation to political rights, encompassing the imperial policies of the 1830s and the national political settlements in place by 1910.
Players' work time
A history of the British Musicians' Union, 1893–2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
The book is a critical history of the Musicians’ Union from 1893-2013. It recounts the development of the Union’s history and portrays this as primarily consisting of a set of responses to technological, industrial and socio-political changes.
National Missile Defence and the politics of US identity
A poststructural critique
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book uncovers the controversial policies surrounding the strategy of national missile defence and provides an alternative, and arguably more inclusive, mode of interpretation of a strategy that is deeply embedded in performances of US identity.
Novel horizons
The genre making of Restoration fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Monograph on the history of the novel and of creative writing, from the English Restoration in the seventeenth century.
by Don Randall
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Don Randall’s comprehensive study situates Malouf within the field of contemporary international and postcolonial writing, but without losing sight of the author’s affiliation with Australian contexts. The book presents an original reading of Malouf, finding the unity of his work in the continuity...
Paranoid visions
Spies, conspiracies and the secret state in British television drama
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Paranoid visions explores the history of the spy and conspiracy genres on British television, from 1960s Cold War series through 1980s conspiracy dramas to contemporary ‘war on terror’ thrillers. It analyses classic dramas including Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Edge of Darkness, A Very British Coup...
Civilising rural Ireland
The co-operative movement, development and the nation-state, 1889–1939
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
The introduction of co-operative societies into the Irish countryside during the late-nineteenth century transformed rural society and created an enduring economic legacy. Civilising rural Ireland challenges predominant narratives of Irish history that explain the emergence of the nation-state through...
by Tony Whitehead
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Mike Leigh may well be Britain’s greatest living film director; his worldview has permeated our national consciousness. This book gives detailed readings of the nine feature films he has made for the cinema, as well as an overview of his work for television. Written with the co-operation of Leigh...
Conflict, peace and mental health
Addressing the consequences of conflict and trauma in Northern Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
What are the human consequences of conflict and what are the appropriate service responses? This book seeks to provide an answer to these important questions, drawing on over twenty-five years of work by the author in Northern Ireland and elsewhere. Focusing on the work undertaken following the Omagh...
Full participation
A comparative study of compulsory voting
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
About a quarter of all democracies today legally oblige their citizens to vote, making this an important aspect of electoral systems in many settings. Moreover, numerous commentators and policy-makers in voluntary voting states are coming to view mandatory attendance at the polls as an attractive...