Manchester University Press: 1049 books
Westminster 1640–60
A royal city in a time of revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This book examines the varied and fascinating ways that Westminster – traditionally home to the royal court, the fashionable West End and parliament – became the seat of the successive, non-monarchical regimes of the 1640s and 1650s. It first explores the town as the venue that helped to shape...
The United States Supreme Court
A political and legal analysis, second edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This book provides an accessible but thorough account of the US Supreme Court and its influence on American society and political life.
Romania and the European Union
How the weak vanquished the strong
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
According to Tom Gallagher, Romania's predatory rulers, the heirs of the sinister communist dictator Ceausescu, have inflicted a humiliating defeat on the European Union. He argues convincingly that Brussels was tricked into offering full membership to this Balkan country in return for substantial...
by Vera Stojarova
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The first book to provide comprehensive coverage of the far right parties in the Balkans
by David Gutzke
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Offers a way of conceptualising how women’s drinking habits changed over more than a century in Britain.
by Gill Allwood, Khursheed Wadia
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book is about the lives of refugee women in Britain and France. Who are they? Where do they come from? What happens to them when they arrive, while they wait for a decision on their claim for asylum, and after the decision, whether positive or negative? It shows how laws and processes designed...
Security in a greater Europe
The possibility of a pan-European approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book examines the security agendas of the European Union, the UK, France, Germany and Russia in connection with three defining events in international security - the crisis in Kosovo of 1999, the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the Iraq crisis of 2003 - in order to assess the potential for alliance-building among European actors.
The United Nations Democracy Agenda
A conceptual history
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
A critical, conceptual-historical analysis of democracy at the United Nations, detailed in four ‘visions’ of democracy: civilization, elections, governance and developmental democracy.
Everyday security threats
Perceptions, experiences, and consequences
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Everyday security threats explores public perceptions of security threats in contemporary Britain, using data from extensive fieldwork and drawing on perspectives from International Relations, security studies and political psychology.
Finding Shakespeare's New Place
An archaeological biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Unique report on the major archaeological dig at Shakespeare's Stratford-upon-Avon home and the implications for the Shakespearian biography.
The ignorant bystander?
Britain and the Rwandan genocide of 1994
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The ignorant bystander: Britain and the Rwandan genocide uses a case study of Britain’s response to the genocide to explore what factors motivate humanitarian intervention in overseas crises. The Rwandan genocide was one of the bloodiest events in the late twentieth century and the international...
by Mackay
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
How well did civilian morale stand up to the pressure of total war and what factors were important to it? Rejecting contentions that morale fell short of the favourable picture presented during World War II and since, this work shows how government policies for maintaining morale were put in place.
Framing cosmologies
The anthropology of worlds
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Explores the ways in which the horizons of human worlds are imagined and engaged
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
Astronomy and the castle in nineteenth-century Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
A revealing account of the family life and achievements of the Third Earl of Rosse, a hereditary peer and resident landlord at Birr Castle, County Offaly, in nineteenth-century Ireland, before, during and after the devastating famine of the 1840s