Manchester University Press: 1049 books
Beyond the state
The colonial medical service in British Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The Colonial Medical Service was the personnel section of the Colonial Service, employing the doctors who tended to the health of both the colonial staff and the local populations of the British Empire. Although the Service represented the pinnacle of an elite government agency, its reach in practice...
Unearthing childhood
Young lives in prehistory
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
This is the first book to survey the ‘hidden half’ of prehistoric societies as revealed by archaeology – from Australopithecines to advanced Stone Age foragers, from farming villages to the beginnings of civilisation. Prehistoric children can be seen in footprints and finger daubs, in images...
Men with stakes
Masculinity and the gothic in US television
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Men with stakes builds on recent discussions of television Gothic by examining the ways in which the Gothic mode is deployed specifically to call into question televisual realism and, with it, conventional depictions of masculinity. Released from the mandate of realism to describe the world as it...
by Steven Earnshaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Realism is an essential concept in literary studies, yet for a variety of reasons it has not received the attention and clarity it deserves, often being dismissed as ‘too slippery’ to be of use. This accessible study remedies that failing for students and scholars of English Literature and Literary...
Listen in terror
British horror radio from the advent of broadcasting to the digital age
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This groundbreaking book is the first full-length study of British horror radio from the pioneering days of recording and broadcasting right through to the digital audio cultures of our own time. The book offers an historical, critical and theoretical exploration of horror radio and audio performance...
Faith in the family
A lived religious history of English Catholicism, 1945–82
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Drawing upon a multi-disciplinary methodology employing diverse written sources, material practices and vivid life histories, Faith in the family seeks to assess the impact of the Second Vatican Council on the ordinary believer, alongside contemporaneous shifts in British society relating to social...
Reformation without end
Religion, politics and the past in post-revolutionary England
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Reformation without end radically reinterprets the English Reformation. No one in eighteenth-century England thought that they lived during ‘the Enlightenment’. Instead, they thought that they still faced the religious, intellectual and political problems unleashed by the Reformation, which began...
by Andrew Bowie
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Reconsiders the path of German philosophy from Kant to Nietzsche, in relation to consciousness, aesthetics and language. The book traces the beginning of modern debates on aesthetics and politics, as well as hermeneutics, paying attention to the significance of music in modern philosophy.
Hincmar of Rheims
Life and work
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Brings together the latest international research on a key medieval writer and thinker
The politics of attack
Communiqués and insurrectionary violence
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Since the early 2000s, global, underground networks of insurrectionary anarchists have carried out thousands of acts of political violence. This bookis an exploration of the ideas, strategies, and history of these political actors that engage in a confrontation with the oppressive powers of the state...
The Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Impossibilty of Reason
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Presents an overview of Rousseau's work from a political science perspective. Was the great theorist of the French Revolution really a conservative? The text argues that the author of "The Social Contract" was a constitutionalist, closer to Montesquieu and Locke than to revolutionaries.
Ideas of monarchical reform
Fénelon, Jacobitism, and the political works of the Chevalier Ramsay
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This book examines the political works of Andrew Michael Ramsay (1683–1743) within the context of early eighteenth-century British and French political thought. In the first monograph on Ramsay in English for over sixty years, the author uses Ramsay to engage in a broader evaluation of the political...
Culture on drugs
Narco-cultural studies of high modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Never has a reconsideration of the place of drugs in our culture been more urgent than it is today. Culture on drugs addresses themes such as the nature of consciousness, language and the body, alienation, selfhood, the image and virtuality and the nature/culture dyad and everyday life. It then explores...
A literature of restitution
Critical essays on W. G. Sebald
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Investigates the crucial question of ‘restitution’ in the work of W. G. Sebald. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplines, with a foreword by his English translator Anthea Bell.