Manchester University Press: 1049 books
Global citizen and European republic
Irish foreign policy in transition
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Will the real Ireland please stand up? European Republic, Global Citizen, Anglo-American State or Irish Nation? - this text offers an analysis of Irish foreign policy that focuses upon its transformation as a result of Ireland’s membership of the European Union and a broader evolution in national identity.
Migrations
Ireland in a global world
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This edited collection explores Ireland’s complex relationship with migration in novel and innovative ways. The contributors – leading scholars of migration from the disciplines of anthropology, geography, history, media studies, sociology, sociolinguistics and women’s studies – draw on new...
The Conservative Party and the nation
Union, England and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This book re-examines the claim of the Conservative Party to be the ‘national party’ and in its politics to express the enduring ‘national interest’. It explores the historical character of the Conservative Party, in particular the significance of the nation in its self-understanding. It addresses...
Women and Irish diaspora identities
Theories, concepts and new perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Bringing together leading authorities on Irish women and migration, this book offers a significant reassessment of the place of women in the Irish diaspora. It compares Irish women across the globe over the last two centuries, setting this research in the context of recent theoretical developments...
Schools and the politics of religion and diversity in the Republic of Ireland
Separate but equal?
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This bookfocuses on the historical and current place of religion in the Irish education system from the perspective of children's rights and citizenship. It offers a critical analysis of the political, cultural and social forces that have shaped the system, looking at how the denominational model...
Producing globalisation
Politics of discourse and institutions in Greece and Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Producing globalisation attempts to scrutinise the nature of the interplay between globalisation and national institutional settings. Rather than taking globalisation as a given, this book explores how concrete political actors produced the phenomenon of globalisation.
by Bryan Fanning
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Irish Adventures in Nation-building consists of eighteen mostly-chronological essays examining the debates and processes that have shaped the modernisation of Ireland since the beginning of the twentieth century. The vantage points examined include those of prominent revolutionaries, cultural nationalists,...
Britain and Africa Under Blair
In pursuit of the good state
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Critically explores Britain's fascination with 'doing good' in Africa under New Labour, and in particular under the premiership of Tony Blair, and, in so doing, sets out to explain the role of idealisation in international relations.
Postcolonial minorities in Britain and France
In the hyphen of the nation-state
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
An examination of how Britain and France are handling the new religious and racial diversity that has become a fact of life in both countries, and how postcolonial minorities are caught between the nation and the state in relation to status and identity, acceptance and integration.
by Ingi Iusmen
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This book critically examines how and why Eastern enlargement has impacted on EU human rights policy. By drawing on the EU’s intervention in human rights provision in Romania before 2007, it is demonstrated that the feedback effects of this intervention have led to the emergence of an EU child rights...
The Scots in early Stuart Ireland
Union and separation in two kingdoms
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Exploring Irish-Scottish connections in the period 1603–60, this book brings important new perspectives to the study of the early Stuart state. Acknowledging the pivotal role of the Hiberno-Scottish world, it identifies some of the limits of England’s Anglicising influence in the northern and...
by Lee Jarvis, Michael Lister
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This book explores how different publics make sense of and evaluate anti-terrorism powers within the UK, and the implications of this for citizenship and security. Drawing on primary empirical research, the book argues that whilst white individuals are not unconcerned about the effects of anti-terrorism,...
Power, luck and freedom
Collected essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
This book presents thirteen essays from a leading contemporary political scientist, with a substantial introduction bringing together the themes. The topics covered include political and social power, freedom, choice, rights, responsibility, the author's unique account of luck and systematic luck...
Equality and the British Left
A study in progressive political thought, 1900–64
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Newly available in paperback, the first comprehensive historical study of egalitarian ideas advocated by the British Left. Offers a compelling new perspective on British political thought, will appeal to scholars and students of British history and political theory and to anyone interested in contemporary political debates on progressive politics.