Manchester University Press: 1049 books
Curing queers'
Mental nurses and their patients, 1935–74
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
Drawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen, fascinating (and often quite moving) oral histories, archival and news media sources, 'Curing queers' examines the plight of men who were institutionalised in British mental hospitals to receive ‘treatment’ for homosexuality...
Barry Hines
Kes, Threads and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2017
Barry Hines’s novel A Kestrel for a Knave, adapted for the screen as Kes, is one of the best-known and well-loved novels of the post-war period, while his screenplay for the television drama Threads is central to a Cold War-era vision of nuclear attack. But Hines published a further eight novels...
Disability in the Industrial Revolution
Physical impairment in British coalmining, 1780–1880
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
An electronic version of this book is also available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) license, thanks to the support of the Wellcome Trust. The Industrial Revolution produced injury, illness and disablement on a large scale and nowhere was this more visible than in coalmining. Disability in...
Conflict to peace
Politics and society in Northern Ireland over half a century
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
After three decades of violence, Northern Ireland has experienced unprecedented peace. This book examines the impact of the 1998 Agreement which halted the violence on those most affected by it – the Northern Irish people themselves. Using public opinion surveys conducted over half a century, this...
The naval war film
Genre, history and national cinema
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book undertakes a unique, coherent and comprehensive consideration of the depiction of naval warfare in the cinema. The films under discussion encompass all areas of naval operations in war, and highlight varying institutional and aesthetic responses to navies and the sea in popular culture....
The law of international orgnaisations
Third edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Substantially updated for its third edition, this book provides a concise account of the principles and norms of international law applicable to inter-governmental organisations, with a focus on the UN and its associated bodies.
The NGO CARE and food aid from America 1945-80
Showered with kindness'?
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This book provides a historical account of the NGO CARE as one of the largest humanitarian NGOs worldwide from 1945 to 1980. Readers interested in international relations and humanitarian hunger prevention are provided with fascinating insights into the economic and business related aspects of Western...
Healing with water
English spas and the water cure, 1840–1960
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
A medical and social history of English spas and hydropathic centres from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries
by Edward Ashbee
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book considers the White House's approach towards issues such as abortion, sex education, obscenity, and same-sex marriage. It not only offers an account of policy-making but assesses the role of the Christian right, evaluates the political significance of moral concerns, and throws new light on George W. Bush's years in office.
The international dimension of the failed Algerian transition
Democracy betrayed?
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book examines the importance of international factors in determining the initiation, development and outcome of transitions to democracy. More specifically, the book analyses the failed Algerian transition in light of its international environment explaining the failure through a complex relationship between domestic and external actors.
Between two worlds of father politics
USA or Sweden?
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The essential message of the ‘two regimes’ model is that the social politics of fatherhood have taken on a global significance and that the USA and Sweden represent two ends of an international continuum of ways of thinking about fatherhood. The key selling points of the two regimes model are...
Sweden and ecological governance
Straddling the fence
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Sweden is seen as a forerunner in environmental and ecological policy. This book examines policies and strategies for ecologically rational governance, and uses the Swedish case study to ask if it is possible to move from a traditional environmental policy to a broad, integrated pursuit of sustainable...
The ethics of researching war
Looking for Bosnia
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Developed through a series of encounters with a Bosnian Serb soldier, The ethics of researching war is a meditation on the possibilities and limitations of responding to the extreme violence of the Bosnian war. The book explores the ethics of confronting the war criminal and investigates the possibility...
Contemporary Violence
Postmodern war in Kosovo and Chechnya
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The book unravels the story of the insurgencies in Kosovo and Chechnya, shedding new light on the social networks and narratives, the rifts, tensions and movements involved in the road to war in 1999.