Manchester University Press: 1049 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2017
This book explores the development of modern transatlantic prosthetic industries in nineteenth and twentieth centuries and reveals how the co-alignment of medicine, industrial capitalism, and social norms shaped diverse lived experiences of prosthetic technologies and in turn, disability identities....
by Nicholas Atkin
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
It is assumed that those French in Britain during World War II - Dunkirk refugees; servicemen; Vichy consular officials; colonists - were supporters of De Gaulle. This study examines the hopes and fears of these communities: how they fitted into British life and how the British viewed them.
by Christine Hallett
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
The First World War was the first ‘total war’. Its industrial weaponry damaged millions of men and drove whole armies underground into dangerously unhealthy trenches. Many were killed. Many more suffered terrible, life-threatening injuries: wound infections such as gas gangrene and tetanus, exposure...
by Keith Beattie
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Humphrey Jennings has been described as the only real poet that British cinema has produced. His documentary films are remarkable records of Britain at peace and war, and his range of representational approaches transcended accepted notions of wartime propaganda and revised the strict codes of British...
by Sukanta Chaudhuri
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This volume is an essential supplement to Pastoral poetry of the English Renaissance: An anthology (2016). The full-length Introduction examines English Renaissance pastoral against the history of the mode from antiquity to the present, with its multifarious themes and social affinities. The study...
The gentlewoman's remembrance
Patriarchy, piety, and singlehood in early Stuart England
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
A microhistory of a never-married English gentlewoman named Elizabeth Isham, this book centres on an extremely rare piece of women's writing - a recently discovered 60,000-word spiritual autobiography held in Princeton's manuscript collections that she penned around 1639. The autobiography is unmatched...
Flesh and Spirit
An anthology of seventeenth-century women's writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Ten little-known and under-studied works by seventeenth-century women (edited from manuscript and print) that explore the relationship between spiritual and physical health in the period
Family rhythms
The changing textures of family life in Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Family rhythms is the first textbook of its kind with an explicit focus on Ireland and Irish families. Uniquely, the book draws on original in-depth interviews with people of different ages to introduce contemporary scholarship on the family and to illustrate how Irish families have adapted and changed...
Dr Faustus: The A- and B- texts (1604, 1616)
A parallel-text edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2016
Dr. Faustus is one of the jewels of early modern English drama, and is still widely performed today. Interestingly, the play has come down to the contemporary audience in two distinct versions that have become known as the 'A' and the 'B' texts. David Bevington and Eric Rasmussen, who edited the original...
The Kosovo crisis and the evolution of a post-Cold War European security
The Evolution of Post Cold War European Security
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Analyses the international response to the crisis in Kosovo, and its broader implications by examining its diplomatic, military and humanitarian features. Unravelling these implications can be challenging as it remains an event replete with paradoxes - the originality of this book's approach lies...
Pockets of resistance
British news media, war and theory in the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
The most detailed, sophisticated and theoretically grounded analysis of wartime media coverage written to date. Describes and explains how British news media variously supported, and dissented from, coalition propaganda campaigns during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
South Korean civil movement organisations
Hope, crisis, and pragmatism in democratic transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This highly engaging book invites the reader to learn about how South Korean activists, intellectuals and various reformers approach the role of civil society in a post-colonial, post-Cold War, post-dictatorship, and post-IMF neoliberal democracy. In particular, it provides a detailed description...
Socio-ideological fantasy and the Northern Ireland conflict
The Other side
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This application of a Lacanian method of analysis has great potential for informing the way we understand and study all inter-religious and ethnic conflicts. It could be integrated with efficiency in peace building processes and thus deserves to be developed in the art of conflict management.
Citizenship, nation, empire
The politics of history teaching in England, 1870–1930
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Citizenship, nation, empire investigates the extent to which popular imperialism influenced the teaching of history between 1870 and 1930. It is the first book-length study to trace the substantial impact of educational psychology on the teaching of history, probing its impact on textbooks, literacy...