Manchester University Press: 1049 books
by Rhiannon Vickers
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This is the first comprehensive study of the political ideology and history of the Labour Party's world-view and foreign policy. It argues that the development of Labour's foreign policy perspective should be seen not as the development of a socialist foreign policy but as an application of the ideas...
Unemployment and the state in Britain
The means test and protest in 1930s south Wales and north-east England
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Unemployment and the state in Britain offers an important and original contribution to understandings of the 1930s. Through a comparative case study of south Wales and the north-east of England, the book explores the impact of the highly controversial means test, the relationship between the unemployed...
Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats
Unfinished business
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats: Unfinished Business offers new research on familiar themes involving loyalties of politics, faith and locality.
Richard Wainwright was a Liberal MP for seventeen years during the Party’s recovery, but his life tells us about much more...
Interrogation, intelligence and security
Controversial British Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Examines the origins and effects of the use of interrogation techniques known as the ‘five techniques’. Through its in-depth analysis the book reveals how British forces came to use such controversial methods in counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism and internal security contexts.
Our fighting sisters
Nation, memory and gender in Algeria, 1954–2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Between 1954 and 1962, Algerian women played a major role in the struggle to end French rule in one of the most violent wars of decolonisation of the twentieth century. Our Fighting Sisters is the first in-depth exploration of what happened to these women after independence in 1962.
Antisemitism and the left
On the return of the Jewish question
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Universalism shows two faces to the world: an emancipatory face that looks to the inclusion of the other, and a repressive face that sees in the other a failure to pass some fundamental test of humanity. Universalism can be used to demand that we treat all persons as human beings regardless of their...
Exploring Russia in the Elizabethan commonwealth
The Muscovy Company and Giles Fletcher, the elder (1546–1611)
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Exploring Russia in the Elizabethan Commonwealth tells the story of English relations with Russia, from the ‘strange and wonderfull discoverie’ of the land and Elizabeth I’s correspondence with Ivan the Terrible, to the corruption of the Muscovy Company and the Elizabethan regime’s censorship...
Crowns and colonies
European monarchies and overseas empires
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Queen Victoria, who also bore the title of Empress of India, had a real and abiding interest in the British Empire, but other European monarchs also ruled over possessions 'beyond the seas'. This collection of original essays explores the connections between monarchy and colonialism, from the old...
The English Republican tradition and eighteenth-century France
Between the ancients and the moderns
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The English republican tradition and eighteenth-century France offers the first full account of the role played by seventeenth and eighteenth-century English republican ideas in eighteenth-century France.
Challenging some of the dominant accounts of the republican tradition, it revises conventional...
The politics of airport expansion in the United Kingdom
Hegemony, policy and the rhetoric of ‘sustainable aviation’
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The massive expansion of global aviation, its insatiable demand for airport capacity and its growing contribution to carbon emissions make it a critical societal problem. Alongside traditional concerns about noise and air pollution, airport politics has been connected to the problems of climate change...
Fragmenting modernism
Ford Madox Ford, the novel and the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Fragmenting modernism' is about Ford Madox Ford, a hero of the modernist literary revolution. Ford is a fascinating and fundamental figure of the time; not only because as a friend and critic of Ezra Pound and Joseph Conrad, editor of the 'English Review', and author of 'The Good Soldier', he shaped...
A theory of the super soldier
The morality of capacity-increasing technologies in the military
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Throughout history, states have tried to create the perfect combatant with superhuman physical and cognitive features that are akin to those of comic book superheroes. However, the current innovations have nothing to do with the ones from the past and their development goes beyond a simple technological...
Who cared for the carers?
A history of the occupational health of nurses, 1880–1948
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Compares the histories of psychiatric and voluntary hospital nurses’ health from the rise of the professional nurse in 1880 to the advent of the National Health Service in 1958
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
How did skilled nursing practice develop to become an essential part of the modern health system? This book provides some important answers to this question. It traces the history and development of nursing practice in Europe and North America, exploring two broad categories of nursing work: the ‘hands-on’...