Manchester University Press: 1049 books
Imperial spaces
Placing the Irish and Scots in colonial Australia
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Imperial spaces takes two of the most influential minority groups of white settlers in the British Empire – the Irish and the Scots – and explores how they imagined themselves within the landscapes of its farthest reaches, the Australian colonies of Victoria and New South Wales. Using letters...
by Felicity Dunworth
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Mothers and meaning on the early modern English stage is a study of the dramatised mother figure in English drama from the mid-sixteenth to the early seventeenth centuries. It explores a range of genres: moralities, histories, romantic comedies, city comedies, domestic tragedies, high tragedies, romances...
Radical voices, radical ways
Articulating and disseminating radicalism in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
This collection of essays studies the expression and diffusion of radical ideas in Britain from the period of the English Revolution in the mid-seventeenth century to the Romantic Revolution in the early nineteenth century. The essays included in the volume explore the modes of articulation and dissemination...
Impostures in early modern England
Representations and perceptions of fraudulent identities
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Impostors and impostures featured prominently in the political, social and religious life of early modern England. Who was likely to be perceived as impostor, and why? This book offers the first full-scale analysis of an important and multifaceted phenomenon. Tobias B. Hug examines a wide range of...
Britain and its internal others, 1750–1800
Under rule of law
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This bookrevisits six notorious incidents that occasioned vigorous debate in London's courtrooms, streets and presses. Each case adjudicated the presence of outsiders in London – from Jews and Gypsies to Africans and Catholics.
by Joanna de Groot
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This wide-ranging and accessible book examines the effects of British imperial involvements on history writing in Britain since 1750. It provides a chronological account of the development of history writing in its social, political, and cultural contexts, and an analysis of the structural links between...
by Susan Wiseman
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Examine factors influencing the relationships between writers and readers of poetry in seventeenth-century England and Scotland
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Scientific governance in Britain, 1914-79 examines the connected histories of how science was governed, and used in governance, in twentieth-century Britain. During the middle portion of that century, British science grew dramatically in scale, reach and value. These changes were due in no small part...
We shall not be moved
How Liverpool's working class fought redundancies, closures and cuts in the age of Thatcher
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The city of Liverpool had frequently been prone to industrial unrest for most of its recent history, but it was the dawn of Thatcher and the sanctioning of neoliberal economic strategies which made Liverpool a nucleus of resistance against the encroaching tide of right-wing politics and sweeping de-industrialisation....
Conserving health in early modern culture
Bodies and environments in Italy and England
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Did early modern people care about their health? And what did it mean to lead a healthy life in Italy and England? Through a range of textual evidence, images and material artefacts Conserving health in early modern culture documents the profound impact which ideas about healthy living had on daily...
Piercing the bamboo curtain
Tentative bridge-building to China during the Johnson years
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
A comprehensive study of Lyndon Johnson's China policy based on a range of recently declassified government documents. This book explores the administration's relationship to both the Vietnam War and the Cultural Revolution and offers a new perspective on Johnson's capacity as a foreign policy leader and his role in the development of the Cold War
Securitising Russia
The domestic politics of Vladimir Putin
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The book demonstrates how Vladimir Putin has wrestled with terrorism, immigration, media freedom, religious pluralism and economic globalism in response to twenty-first-century security concerns.
The new politics of Russia
Interpreting change
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
From the conflict in Syria to the crisis in Ukraine, Russia continues to dominate the headlines. Yet the political realities of contemporary Russia are poorly understood by Western observers and policy-makers. In this highly engaging book, Andrew Monaghan explains why we tend to misunderstand Russia...
Shakespeare and laughter
A cultural history
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book examines laughter in the Shakespearean theatre in the context of a cultural history of early modern laughter. It is the first study to focus on laughter, not comedy, arguing that since the early modern period a paradigm shift has taken place in our attitudes to laughter and investigates the role Shakespeare played in this connection.