Manchester University Press: 1049 books
The international politics of the Middle East
Second edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
One of the major internationally recognised works on the international politics of the Middle East, this book systematically combines international relations theory and Middle East case studies to provide a macro overview of the international relations of the region.
by Casse Mudde
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
A comprehensive and detailed analysis of the five main parties of the extreme right in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Using primary research - including internal party documents - the author concludes that the core ideology of these parties is xenophobic nationalist.
The Europeanisation of Whitehall
UK central government and the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This is a path breaking study of the European Union’s impact on UK central government. It is the first book to deal comprehensively with the EU’s impact on central government across the period from the UK’s first application to join in 1961 right up to the end of the Blair administration.
British liberal internationalism, 1880–1930
Making progress?
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book explores the development, character, and legacy of the ideology of liberal internationalism in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. Liberal internationalism provided a powerful way of theorising and imagining international relations, and it dominated well-informed political...
Missionary families
Race, gender and generation on the spiritual frontier
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Missionary families were an integral component of the missionary enterprise, both as active agents on the global religious stage and as a force within the enterprise that shaped understandings and theories of mission itself. Taking the family as a legitimate unit of historical analysis in its own...
British and Irish diasporas
Societies, cultures and ideologies
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
People from the British and Irish Isles have, for centuries, migrated to all corners of the globe.Wherever they went, the English, Irish, Scots, Welsh, and and even sub-national, supra-regional groups like the Cornish, co-mingled, blended and blurred. Yet while they gradually integrated into new lives...
Law and violence
Christoph Menke in dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
A interlocution containing a stimulating lead essay on the relationship between law and violence by one of the key third-generation Frankfurt School philosophers, Christoph Menke, and engaged responses by a variety of influential critics.
by Rob Boddice
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
This book introduces students and professional historians to the main areas of concern in the history of emotions. It discusses how the emotions intersect with other lines of historical research relating to power, practice, society and morality. Addressing criticism from within and without the discipline...
Imperial citizenship
Empire and the question of belonging
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This is the first book-length study of the ideological foundations of British imperialism in the early twentieth century by focussing on the heretofore understudied concept of imperial citizenship.
The politics of participation
From Athens to e-democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
We live in an age of democracy. Very few people challenge the virtues of ‘government by the people’, yet politicians and commentators are fond of decrying the ‘crisis of democracy’. How do these views square up? This book provides the answer by surveying the philosophical history of democracy...
Colonial caring
A history of colonial and post-colonial nursing
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
From the height of colonialism in the mid-nineteenth century, through to the aftermath of the Second World War, nurses have been at the heart of colonial projects. They were ideally placed to insinuate the ‘improving’ culture of their employers into the local communities they served, and travelled...
Recognition and Global Politics
Critical encounters between state and world
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Recognition and global politics examines the potential and limitations of the discourse of recognition as a strategy for reframing justice and injustice within contemporary world affairs. Drawing on resources from social and political theory and international relations theory, as well as feminist...
Mummies, magic and medicine in ancient Egypt
Multidisciplinary essays for Rosalie David
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
This volume, published in honour of Egyptologist Prof. Rosalie David OBE, presents the latest research on three of the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian civilisation: mummies, magic and medical practice. Drawing on recent archaeological fieldwork, new research on Egyptian human remains, reassessments...
War and welfare
British prisoner of war families, 1939–45
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
During the Second World War, some 250,000 British servicemen were taken captive by either the Axis powers or the Japanese. As a result of this, their wives and families became completely dependent on the military and civil authorities.
This book examines the experiences of the millions of service...