Manchester University Press: 1049 books
Art after Empire
From Colonialism to Globalisation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
This book explores the relationship between art and visual culture in Europe and the ‘wider world’ from the early twentieth century to the contemporary era of globalisation. Artists such as Pablo Picasso explored the art of the rest of world in ways that were increasingly challenged as Eurocentric...
Psychological socialism
The Labour Party and qualities of mind and character, 1931 to the present
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
To Labour’s first Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald, socialism meant not only ‘satisfactory figures of death rates and …improved houses’ but also the ‘mental cleanliness, the moral robustness of our people.’ This book explores the neglected theme of individual character and ‘mental qualities’...
The search for democratic renewal
The politics of consultation in Britain and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Why is the search for democratic renewal so elusive? This book examines both the political and policy implications of efforts by the centre-left to transform democracy. This is a story not only about democratic change, but also the identity crisis of centre-left political parties.
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by Bryan Fanning
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
In the last decade Ireland’s immigrant population grew to more than one in ten. Now in the midst of an economic crisis the integration of immigrants has become a topical issue. Drawing extensively on demographic data and research on immigrant lives, immigrant participation in Irish politics and...
Law in popular belief
Myth and reality
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In recent years there has been a significant growth in interest of the so-called “law in context” extending legal studies beyond black letter law. This book looks at the relationship between statute law and legal practice. It examines how law is applied in reality and more precisely how law is...
Mutinous memories
A subjective history of French military protest in 1919
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
This book explores the eight-month wave of mutinies that struck the French infantry and navy in 1919. Based on official records and the testimony of dozens of participants, it is the first study to try to understand the world of the mutineers. Examining their words for the traces of sensory perceptions,...
Murder Capital
Suspicious deaths in London, 1933–53
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Murder Capital is a historical study of unexpected deaths whose circumstances required official investigation in mid-twentieth-century London. Suspicious deaths – murders in the family and by strangers, infanticides and deaths from illegal abortions – reveal moments of personal and communal crisis...
Black Bartholomew's Day
Preaching, polemic and Restoration nonconformity
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Black Bartholomew's Day is the first comprehensive study of the politicised preaching and polemical literature surrounding the mass ejection of Puritan ministers from the Church of England in 1662 - a pivotal event in the history of religion in Britain
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Dublin: Renaissance city of literature interrogates the notion of a literary 'renaissance' in Dublin. Through detailed case studies of print and literature in Renaissance Dublin, the volume covers innovative new ground, including quantitative analysis of print production in Ireland, unique insight...
Migrating borders and moving times
Temporality and the crossing of borders in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2017
Migrating borders and moving timesanalyses migrant border crossings in relation to their everyday experiences of time and connects these to wider social and political structures. Sometimes border crossing takes no more than a moment; sometimes hours; some crossers find themselves in the limbo of detention;...
An ethnography of NGO practice in India
Utopias of development
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Through an ethnographic study of the ‘Barefoot College’, an internationally renowned non- governmental development organisation (NGO) situated in Rajasthan, India, this book investigates the methods and practices by which a development organisation materialises and manages a construction of success.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This book examines the treatment of cultural and religious diversity - indigenous and immigrant - on both sides of the Irish border in order to analyse the current state of tolerance and to consider the kinds of policies that may support integration while respecting diversity. The first two sections...
Empire of scholars
Universities, networks and the British academic world, 1850–1939
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
At the start of the twenty-first century we are acutely conscious that universities operate within an entangled world of international scholarly connection. Now available in paperback, Empire of scholars examines the networks that linked academics across the colonial world in the age of ‘Victorian’...
The Eurogroup
How a secretive circle of finance ministers shape European economic governance
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book is the first study on the work of the Eurogroup - the monthly informal meetings of the euro area’s finance ministers, the Commission and the European Central Bank. It shows how this small and secretive circle of the euro area’s most senior decision-makers shape European economic governance through an ongoing informal policy dialogue.