Manchester University Press: 1049 books
Church, state and social science in Ireland
Knowledge institutions and the rebalancing of power, 1937–73
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The immense power the Catholic Church once wielded in Ireland has considerably diminished over the last fifty years. During the same period the Irish state has pursued new economic and social development goals by wooing foreign investors and throwing the state's lot in with an ever-widening European...
Theatre and empire
Great Britain on the London stages under James VI and I
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
This book looks at the genesis of the British national identity in the reign of King James I and VI. While devolution is currently decentralizing Britain, this book examines how the idea of a united kingdom was created in the first place. It does this by studying two things: the political language...
Lordship in four realms
The Lacy family, 1166–1241
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Examines the rise and fall of the aristocratic Lacy family in England, Ireland, Wales and Normandy. As one of the first truly transnational studies of individual medieval aristocrats, it provides a fresh look at lordship and the interplay between aristocracy and crown from 1166 to 1241.
News and rumour in Jacobean England
Information, court politics and diplomacy, 1618–25
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Examines how political news was concealed, manipulated and distorted during the tumultuous later years of James I’s reign
by Edward Spiers
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Available in paperback for the first time, The Victorian soldier in Africa re-examines the campaign experience of British soldiers in Africa during the period, 1874–1902 – the zenith of the Victorian imperial expansion – and does so from the perspective of the regimental soldier. The book utilises...
Ethical and legal debates in Irish healthcare
Confronting complexities
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The Irish health system is confronted by a range of challenges, both emerging and recurring. This collection provides a foundation for ongoing engagement with selected issues in contemporary Irish health contexts. It includes contributions from scholars and practitioners across a range of disciplines....
Foreign players and football supporters
The Old Firm, Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The first academic book to look at supporters’ reactions to the increase in the number of foreign players in the very clubs they support
The character of English rural society
Earls Colne, 1550–1750
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This is a major study of the transformation of early modern English rural society. It begins by assessing the three major debates about the character of English society: the ‘Brenner Debate’; the debate over English Individualism; and the long running debate over the disappearance of the small...
by Iain Lindsey, Tess Kay, Ruth Jeanes
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This jointly authored book extends understanding of the use of sport to address global development agendas by offering an important departure from prevailing theoretical and methodological approaches in the field. Drawing on nearly a decade of wide-ranging multidisciplinary research undertaken with...
by Michael Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
An analysis that takes the complexity of British defence policy apart to view its anatomy and show how policy is made in this area. British defence policy is in a phase of great transition as the country confronts its Brexit future and also as world politics becomes more threatening and potentially...
Human Rights and the Borders of Suffering
The Promotion of Human Rights in International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This study of human rights argues for a greater openness in the ways we approach human rights and international rights promotion. Starting with the realities of abuse rather than the liberal architectures of rights, it casts human rights as a language for probing the political dimensions of suffering,...
The Irish regiments in the Great War
Discipline and Morale
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book discusses the discipline and morale in the British army during the Great War by using a case-study of the Irish regiments
by Margret Fine-Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Recent decades have witnessed major changes in gender roles and family patterns, as well as a falling birth rate in Ireland and the rest of Europe. While the traditional family is now being replaced in many cases by new family forms, we do not know the reasons why people are making the choices they...
Cultural warfare and trust
Fighting the Mafia in Palermo
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book examines whether it is possible to support the development of generalised trust through public action and education. It analyses political efforts in Palermo to break the Mafia's territorial and mental control and to turn a tradition of non-co-operation and distrust into trust and co-operation.