Manchester University Press: 1049 books
Freedom and the Fifth Commandment
Catholic priests and political violence in Ireland, 1919–21
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Addresses the War of Independence from a new perspective by focusing on the attitude of the Catholic clergy
Entertaining television
The BBC and popular television culture in the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Entertaining television challenges the idea that the BBC in the 1950s was elitist and ‘staid’, upholding Reithian values in a paternalistic, even patronising way. By focusing on a number of (often controversial) programme case studies – such as the soap opera, the quiz/ game show, the ‘problem’...
Dangerous bodies
Historicising the gothic corporeal
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Through an investigation of the body and its oppression by the church, the medical profession and the state, this book reveals the actual horrors lying beneath fictional horror in settings as diverse as the monastic community, slave plantation, operating theatre, Jewish ghetto and battlefield trench....
Open graves, open minds
Representations of vampires and the Undead from the Enlightenment to the present day
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Relates the Undead in literature and other media to questions concerning genre, technology, consumption and social change
Carmen de Burgos
Three novellas: Confidencias, La mujer fría and Puñal de claveles
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Carmen de Burgos (1867-1932), an influential journalist, socio-political activist, and a key literary figure in the cultural ferment of pre-war Madrid, is currently being rediscovered, having languished in a long and regrettable oblivion during the Franco years. This scholarly edition of three stories...
Workers and revolution in Serbia
From Tito to Milo_evic and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This book offers a refreshing new analysis of the role of workers both in Tito’s Yugoslavia and in the subsequent Serbian revolution against Miloševic in October 2000. The authors argue that Tito and the Communist leadership of Yugoslavia saw self-management as a modernising project to compete...
The European Union and its eastern neighbourhood
Europeanisation and its twenty-first-century contradictions
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This volume is timely in that it explores key issues which are currently at the forefront of the EU’s relations with its eastern neighbours. It considers the impact of a more assertive Russia, the significance of Turkey, the limitations of the Eastern Partnership with Belarus and Moldova, the position...
Worker protests in post-communist Romania and Ukraine
Striking with tied hands
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Worker protests in post-communist Romania and Ukraine is a book about strategies of trade unions confronting employers in difficult conditions. The book’s main idea is to study why and how successful forms of workers’ interest representation could emerge in a hostile context. The post-communist...
by Ami Pedahzur
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Ami Pedahzur looks at the theoretical issue of how a democracy can defend itself from those wishing to subvert or destroy it without being required to take measures that would impinge upon the basic principles of the democratic idea, with a case study of the Israeli response to Jewish extremism.
Haunted presents
Europeans, Muslim immigrants and the onus of European-Jewish histories
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Haunted presents: Europeans, Muslim immigrants, and the onus of European Jewish histories is an in-depth analysis of the interrelations between Muslim minority immigrants and local European communities with an accent on Jewish communities and Judaism. The triangular investigation in this work is largely...
War on terror'
The Oxford Amnesty Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
This book covers the many topics of `the war on terror' from legal, philosophical, economic and historical perspectives. The dialogue form of the book (essay-response) allows a broad representation of views, covering the situation in the Middle East, national security, politics of intervention, human rights, torture and the motives of the Iraq War.
by Susanne Martin, Leonard Weinberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2016
This book presents a critical reflection on the major armed conflicts that occurred during the 1990s and the first decade of the twenty-first century. Conflicts in Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria all involved the use of terrorism by one or more groups. Looking to the future,...
Thorough surveillance
The genesis of Israeli policies of population management, surveillance and political control towards the Palestinian minority
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Traces the genesis of Israeli policies and tactics of population management, surveillance and political control towards the Palestinians
Sex, politics and empire
A postcolonial geography
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Colonial governments, institutions and companies recognised that in many ways the effective operation of the Empire depended upon sexual arrangements. For example, nuclear families serving agricultural colonization, and prostitutes working for single men who powered armies and plantations, mines and...