Manchester University Press: 1049 books
by John Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This fascinating book looks at how local history developed from the antiquarian county studies of the sixteenth century through the growth of 'professional' history in the nineteenth century, to the recent past. Concentrating on the past sixty years, it looks at the opening of archive offices, the...
Constructing kingship
The Capetian monarchs of France and the early Crusades
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Crusading kings such as Louis IX of France and Richard I of England exert a unique hold on our historical imagination. For this reason, it can be easy to forget that European rulers were not always eager participants in holy war. The First Crusade was launched in 1095, and yet the first monarch did...
Louis XIV and the parlements
The assertion of royal authority
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The first scholarly study of the political and economic relationship between Louis XIV and the parlements of France, the Parlement of Paris and all the provincial tribunals, calling into question current revisionist understanding of Louis XIV.
Fathers, Pastors and Kings
Visions of episcopacy in seventeenth-century France
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Fathers, pastors and kings explores how conceptions of episcopacy (government of a church by bishops) shaped the identity of the bishops of France in the wake of the reforming Council of Trent (1545-63).
Absolute monarchy on the frontiers
Louis XIV’s military occupations of Lorraine and Savoy
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
French territorial ambitions and consequent military activity during the reign of Louis XIV ensured that a number of territories bordering on France were subject to military occupation for strategic reasons from the 1660s onwards. Drawing on extensive archival research, this study presents the occupation...
In pursuit of politics
Education and revolution in eighteenth-century France
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Sheds new light on the cultural origins and practical ambitions of the French Revolution through an analysis of debates over education in eighteenth-century France.
by Richard Hillman
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Richard Hillman applies to tragic patterns and practices in early modern England his long-standing critical preoccupation with English-French cultural connections in the period. With primary, though not exclusive, reference on the English side to Shakespeare and Marlowe, and on the French side to...
by John Thieme
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
R.K. Narayan’s reputation as one of the founding figures of Indian writing in English is re-examined in this comprehensive study of his fiction, which offers detailed readings of all his novels. Arguing against views that have seen Narayan as a chronicler of “authentic” Indianness, John Thieme...
by Lee Spinks
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book provided the first comprehensive account of the Booker Prize-winning poet and novellist, Michael Ondaatje. It also offers a guide to key issues in postcolonial writing and theory.
by Christopher Tyerman
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
David Hume, the eighteenth century philosopher, famously declared that ‘the crusades engrossed the attention of Europe and have ever since engaged the curiosity of man kind’. This is the first book length study of how succeeding generations from the First Crusade in 1099 to the present day have...
Defense of the West
NATO, the European Union and the transatlantic bargain
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This accessible and up-to-date analysis of transatlantic relations is based on more than forty years of experience working for the US Congress and the intelligence community.
College communities abroad
Education, migration and Catholicism in early modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2017
This bookrepositions early modern Catholic abroad colleges in their interconnected regional, national and transnational contexts. From the sixteenth century, Irish, English and Scots Catholics founded more than fifty colleges in France, Flanders, Spain, Portugal, the Papal States and the Habsburg...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
A New Naval History brings together the most significant and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary naval history. The last few decades have witnessed a transformation in how this field is researched and understood and this volume captures the state of a field that continues to develop apace....
Anywhere out of the world
The work of Bruce Chatwin
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
By the time of his death in 1989 at the age of forty-eight, Bruce Chatwin had become one of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century. Though his career spanned merely twelve years, his impact and influence was profoundly felt; Chatwin’s first book In Patagonia ‘redefined travel writing’,...