Manchester University Press: 1049 books
Castles and colonists
An archaeology of Elizabethan Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book is the first to examine life in the leading province of Elizabeth I's nascent empire, an Ireland of colonizing English farmers and an imported Protestant elite living in fortified manors and medieval castles
by Charles Reed
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Royal tourists, colonial subjects and the making of a British world, 1860–1911 examines the ritual space of nineteenth-century royal tours of empire and the diverse array of historical actors who participated in them. The book suggests that the varied responses to the royal tours of the nineteenth...
Colonial connections, 1815–45
Patronage, the information revolution and colonial government
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This groundbreaking book challenges standard interpretations of metropolitan strategies of rule in the early nineteenth century. After the Napoleonic wars, the British government ruled a more diverse empire than ever before, and the Colonial Office responded by cultivating strong personal links with...
Calculating compassion
Humanity and relief in war, Britain 1870–1914
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Calculating compassion examines the origins of British relief work in late-nineteenth-century wars on the continent and the fringes of Empire. The author draws on new archival research to reveal the preoccupations of nineteenth-century relief workers, and the legacies for relief work today.
The Culture of Diplomacy
Britain in Europe, c.1750–1830
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This is an original study of British diplomacy in the age of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. It examines the social, cultural and intellectual aspects of diplomatic life and practice between 1750 and 1830.
Knowledge, mediation and empire
James Tod's journeys among the Rajputs
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This study of the British colonial administrator James Tod (1782–1835), who spent five years in north-western India (1818–22) collecting every conceivable type of material of historical or cultural interest on the Rajputs and the Gujaratis, gives special attention to his role as a mediator of...
Imperial expectations and realities
El Dorados, utopias and dystopias
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
This volume explores how imperial powers established and expanded their empires through decisions that were often based on exaggerated expectations and wishful thinking, rather than on reasoned and scientific policies. It explores these exaggerations through the concepts of El Dorado, utopias and...
by Tim Allender
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This book explores the colonial mentalities that shaped and were shaped by women living in colonial India between 1820 and 1932. Using a broad framework the book examines the many life experiences of these women and how their position changed, both personally and professionally, over this long period...
Food, risk and politics
Scare, scandal and crisis - insights into the risk politics of food safety
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This is a book about the risk politics of food safety. Food-related risks regularly grab the headlines in ways that threaten reasoned debate and obstruct sensible policy making. In this book, Ed Randall explains why this is the case. He goes on to make the case for a properly informed and fully open...
Unlimited action
The performance of extremity in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Unlimited action concerns the limits imposed upon art and life, and the means by which artists have exposed, refused, or otherwise reshaped the horizon of aesthetics and of the practice of art, by way of performance art. It examines the ‘performance of extremity’ as practices at the limits of...
Mixed messages
American correspondences in visual and verbal practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Offering a major contribution to the field of American culture and aesthetics in an interdisciplinary frame, this collection assembles the cutting-edge research of renowned and emerging scholars in literature and the visual arts, with a foreword by Miles Orvell. The volume represents the first of...
Women of letters
Gender, writing and the life of the mind in early modern England
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Women of letters writes a new history of English women's intellectual worlds using their private letters as evidence of hidden networks of creative exchange. The book argues that many women of this period engaged with a life of the mind and demonstrates the dynamic role letter-writing played in the...
Essex
The cultural impact of an Elizabethan courtier
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This collection of new essays about the earl of Essex, one of the most important figures of the Elizabethan court, resituates his life and career within the richly diverse contours of his cultural and political milieu. It identifies the ways in which his biography has been variously interpreted both...
by Peter Buse, Nuria Triana-Toribio, Andy Willis
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The first book in English about Álex de la Iglesia, critically acclaimed former protégé of Pedro Almodóvar, and one of the highest grossing directors in Spain and Latin America. De la Iglesia’s cinema is representative of a new generation of Spanish and European directors who combine avant-garde strategies with forms such as comedy and horror.