Manchester University Press: 1049 books
Politics personified
Portraiture, caricature and visual culture in Britain, c.1830–80
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The remarkable popularity of political likenesses in the Victorian period is the central theme of this book, which explores how politicians and publishers exploited new visual technology to appeal to a broad public. The first study of the role of commercial imagery in nineteenth-century politics,...
The last taboo
Women and body hair
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This is the first academic book ever written on women and body hair. The study argues that body hair plays a central role in constructing masculinity and femininity and sexual and cultural identitiesThe chapters each analyse through a specific focus how body hair underpins ideas of the ‘cultural’ and ‘natural’ in western culture.
Decadent daughters and monstrous mothers
Angela Carter and European Gothic
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Decadent daughters and monstrous mothers interrogates the vexed question of Angela Carter’s feminist politics through the dusty lens of European Gothic. It illuminates her ambivalent relation to some of her most contentious European literary forebears, reveals her rich knowledge of French literature...
Monstrous media/spectral subjects
Imaging Gothic from the nineteenth century to the present
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Monstrous media/spectral subjects explores the intersection of monsters, ghosts, representation and technology in Gothic texts from the nineteenth century to the present. It argues that emerging media technologies from the phantasmagoria and magic lantern to the hand-held video camera and the personal...
by Andrew Klevan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
This bookprovides an in-depth, holistic examination of evaluative aesthetics and criticism as they apply to film. Organised around the explanation of key concepts, it illuminates connections between the work of philosophers, theorists and critics, and demonstrates the evaluation of form through the...
Fight back
Punk, politics and resistance
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Fight back examines the different ways punk – as a youth/subculture – may provide space for political expression and action. Bringing together scholars from a range of academic disciplines (history, sociology, cultural studies, politics, English, music), it showcases innovative research into the...
Ripped, torn and cut
Pop, politics and punk fanzines from 1976
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2019
Ripped, torn and cut offers a collection of original essays exploring the motivations behind – and the politics within – the multitude of fanzines that emerged in the wake of British punk from 1976.
The road
An ethnography of (im)mobility, space, and cross-border infrastructures in the Balkans
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
This book is an ethnographic and historical study of the main Albania-Greece highway. But more than an ethnography on the road, it is an anthropology of the road. Highways are part of an explicit cultural-material nexus that includes houses, urban architecture and vehicles. Complex socio-political...
The last Yugoslav generation
The rethinking of youth politics and cultures in late socialism
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
This promising addition to the growing literature on the history of late socialism charts the development of youth culture and politics in socialist Yugoslavia, focusing on the 1980s. Rather than examining the 1980s as a mere prelude to the violent collapse of the country in the 1990s, the book recovers...
Terror and terroir
The winegrowers of the Languedoc and modern France
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
This book traces the history of post-war France by tracking the Comité Régional d'Action Viticole (CRAV), a militant collective of winegrowers who have used protest and violence to push back against attempts to modernise the French economy and state and the wider impacts of globalisation.
Anglo-Jewry since 1066
Place, locality and memory
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This is a study of the history and memory of Anglo-Jewry from medieval to the present. The particular focus is on the relationship between the local (in this case Hampshire), the national and the global.
Civvies
Middle–class men on the English Home Front, 1914–18
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Explores the experiences of middle-class men on the English home front during the First World War
Peace, war and party politics
The Conservatives and Europe, 1846–59
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book examines the mid-Victorian Conservative Party’s significant but overlooked role in British foreign policy and in contemporary debate about Britain’s relations with Europe. It considers the Conservatives’ response, in opposition and government, to the tumultuous era of Napoleon III, the Crimean war and Italian unification.
by June Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
The Protestant Orphan Society, founded in Dublin in 1828, managed a carefully-regulated boarding-out and apprenticeship scheme. This book examines its origins, its forward-thinking policies, and particularly its investment in children’s health, the part women played in the charity, opposition to...