Manchester University Press: 1049 books
Lisbon rising
Urban social movements in the Portuguese Revolution, 1974–75
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Explores the role of a widespread urban social movement in the revolutionary process that accompanied Portugal’s transition from authoritarianism to democracy.
by Richard Parrish
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Investigates the birth of EU sports law and policy by examining the impact of the Bosman ruling and other European Court of Justice decisions, the relationship between sport and EU competition law, the organization of sport, and the relationship between sport and the EU Treaty.
Ignorance
Literature and agnoiology
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Andrew Bennett argues in this fascinating book that ignorance is part of the narrative and poetic force of literature and is an important aspect of its thematic focus: ignorance is what literary texts are about. He sees that the dominant conception of literature since the Romantic period involves...
Medicine, patients and the law
Sixth edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Embryo research, cloning, assisted conception, neonatal care, saviour siblings, organ transplants, drug trials - modern developments have transformed the field of medicine almost beyond recognition in recent decades and the law struggles to keep up.
In this highly acclaimed and very accessible...
Debating civilisations
Interrogating civilisational analysis in a global age
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Contemporary civilisational analysis has emerged in the post-Cold War period as a forming but already controversial field of scholarship. Debating civilisations seeks to evaluate the main currents of the field and its principal competitors. The author draws a unique comparison of many key scholars...
Bauman and contemporary sociology
A critical analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
This book offers an incisive and original perspective on the works of Zygmunt Bauman, perhaps the greatest sociologist of the late twentieth century. It examines the limitations of his approach while recognising the importance of his legacy as a theorist who insisted on the need for moral engagement.
The Norman Geras Reader
What's there is there'
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
This is the first book to gather the key writings of the distinguished political theorist Norman Geras into a single volume, providing a comprehensive overview of the thinking of one of the most important Marxist philosophers in the post-war era. Among the essays included here are 'The Controversy...
by Geoffrey Cubitt
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
In recent years, ‘memory’ has become a central, though also a controversial, concept in historical studies - a term that denotes both a new and distinctive field of study and a fresh way of conceptualizing history as a field of inquiry more generally.
This book, which is aimed both at specialists...
Transatlantic traumas
Has illiberalism brought the West to the brink of collapse?
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
A new addition to the Pocket Politics series*, Transatlantic traumas* takes a timely, compelling look at connections between external and internal threats that challenge the concept and coherence of the West and its leading institutions, NATO and the European Union. Frank and direct, in a style that’s...
Propaganda and counter-terrorism
Strategies for global change
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
This book offers a unique account of British and United States government's attempts to adapt their propaganda strategies to global terrorist threats in a post-9/11 media environment. It discusses Anglo-American coordination and domestic struggles that brought in far-reaching changes to propaganda....
The European Union's fight against terrorism
Discourse, policies, identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This book examines the language of the European Union's response to the threat of terrorism. Since its re-emergence in the wake of the September 11 attacks, the 'fight against terrorism' has come to represent a priority area of action for the EU. Drawing on interpretive approaches to international...
Disclosed poetics
Beyond landscape and lyricism
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
John Kinsella explores a contemporary poetics and pedagogy as it emerges from his reflections on his own writing and teaching, and on the work of other poets, particularly contemporary writers with which he feels some affinity.
Tracing the cultural legacy of Irish Catholicism
From Galway to Cloyne and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
This book traces the steady decline in Irish Catholicism from the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1979 up to the Cloyne report into clerical sex abuse in that diocese in 2011. The young people awaiting the Pope’s address in Galway were entertained by two of Ireland’s most charismatic clerics, Bishop...
Developing Africa
Concepts and practices in twentieth-century colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Investigates development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule