Manchester University Press: 1049 books
The humanities and the Irish university
Anomalies and opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This is the first book-length study of the humanities and the Irish university. Ireland was a deeply religious country throughout the twentieth century but the colleges of its National University never established a religion or theology department. The official first language of Ireland is Irish but...
The Open University
A history
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This historical perspective on The Open University, founded in 1969, frames its ethos (to be open to people, places, methods and ideas) within the traditions of correspondence courses, commercial television, adult education, the post-war social democratic settlement and the Cold War. A critical assessment...
What a Waste
Outsourcing and How it Goes Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Outsourcing - contracting out public services to private business interests - is an unacknowledged revolution in the British economy. The outsourcing revolution has happened quietly but is creating powerful new corporate interests, transforming the organisation of government at all levels, and simultaneously...
The end of the experiment?
From competition to the foundational economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
This book describes the failure of a 30 year old policy experiment with competition and markets and proposes a new experiment in social licensing of foundational activities. The repeated failure of that old experiment in subjecting the basics of everyday life to competition is conclusively demonstrated...
Networks of Sound, Style and Subversion
The Punk and Post-Punk Worlds of Manchester, London, Liverpool and Sheffield, 1975-80
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
In this important book Nick Crossley examines the birth of punk in the UK and its transformation, within a short period of time, into post-punk. Dominant explanations of these developments have tended to focus upon strains and frustrations, both social and aesthetic, which are said to have provoked...
Eva Gore-Booth
An image of such politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
This is the first dedicated biography of the extraordinary Irish woman, Eva Gore-Booth. Gore-Booth rejected her aristocratic heritage choosing to live and work amongst the poorest classes in industrial Manchester. Her work on behalf of barmaids, circus acrobats, flower sellers and pit-brow lasses...
Knowledge, democracy and action
Community-university research partnerships in global perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Knowledge, democracy and action: Community-university research partnerships in global perspectives is based on a three-year international comparative study undertaken by the Global Alliance on Community Based Research and supported by the UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility...
Beyond the metropolis
The changing image of urban Britain, 1780–1880
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Dark satanic mills, cobbled streets and cholera have become common shorthand for the nineteenth-century British town. Over the past century historical reality has merged seamlessly with mythology, literature and caricature to create a dramatic but utterly misleading representation of the urban past....
by Patricia Inman, Diana Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Details the challenges faced by higher education institutions in considering environmental sustainability
by John Privilege
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Michael Logue and the Catholic Church in Ireland, 1879-1925 provides a review and consideration of the role of the Catholic Church in Ireland in the intense political and social changes after 1879 through a major figure in Irish history, Michael Logue. Despite being a figure of pivotal historical...
by Yangwen Zheng
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This book is a timely and solid portrait of modern China from the First Opium War to the Xi Jinping era. Unlike the handful of existing textbooks that only provide narratives, this textbook fashions a new and practical way to study modern China. Written exclusively for university students, A-level...
Renaissance humanism and ethnicity before race
The Irish and the English in the seventeenth century
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The modern ideology of race, so important in twentieth-century Europe, incorporates both a theory of human societies and a theory of human bodies. Ian Campbell’s new study examines how the elite in early modern Ireland spoke about human societies and human bodies, and demonstrates that this elite...
Tragic encounters and ordinary ethics
Palestine-Israel in British universities
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
For over four decades, events in Palestine-Israel have provoked raging conflicts within British universities around issues of free speech, 'extremism', antisemitism and Islamophobia. But why is this conflict so significant for student activists living at such a geographical distance from the region...
Conversions
Gender and religious change in early modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Conversions is the first collection to explicitly address the intersections between sexed identity and religious change in the two centuries following the Reformation. Chapters deal with topics as diverse as convent architecture and missionary enterprise, the replicability of print and the representation...