Manchester University Press: 1049 books
by Dimitris N. Chryssochoou, Michael J. Tsinisizelis, Stelios Stavridis
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This revised edition offers a comprehensive overview of the challenges confronting the political system as well as the international politics of the European Union. It draws from a spectrum of regional integration theories to determine what the Union actually is and how it is developing.
Migrant architects of the NHS
South Asian doctors and the reinvention of British general practice (1940s-1980s)
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Migrant Architects is the first book to assess the impact of the migration of doctors from the Indian subcontinent on postwar development of British general practice - and by extension the ways in which they influenced the development of the NHS.
Globalisation contested
An international political economy of work
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This exciting book, available in paperback for the first time, provides an illuminating account of contemporary globalisation that is grounded in actual transformations in the areas of production and the workplace. It reveals the social and political contests that give 'global' its meaning, by examining...
Environmental politics in the European Union
Policy-making, implementation and patterns of multi-level governance
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book provides an introduction into the development, the making and the implementation of European Union environmental politics. It employs a clear and accessible analytical perspective based on the theoretical state-of-the-art of EU policy Studies
Irish nationalism and European integration
The official redefinition of the island of Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
How has it been possible for Irish political leaders to actively promote two of the largest challenges to Irish nation-statehood: the concession of sovereignty to the European Union and the retraction of the constitutional claim over Northern Ireland? The author of this book argues that such discourses...
by Mary Hilson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
The book examines the history of co-operation in the broad context of the history of consumerism and consumption; of internationalism and the development of international organisations; and debates about international trade during the inter-war period. The fundamental question explored in the book...
Men in reserve
British civilian masculinities in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Men in reserve focuses on working class civilian men who, as a result of working in reserved occupations, were exempt from enlistment in the armed forces. It uses fifty six newly conducted oral history interviews as well as autobiographies, visual sources and existing archived interviews to explore...
Between two unions
Europeanisation and Scottish devolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book is the first in-depth comparative study of Scottish devolution and the first to analyse the impact of the European dimension. With focus on the periods leading up to the referendums in 1979 and 1997, it investigates positions and strategies of political parties and interest groups and how...
by Moira Maguire
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This fascinating study reveals the desperate plight of the poor, illegitimate and abused children in an Irish society that claimed to "cherish" and hold them sacred, but in fact marginalised and ignored them. It closely examines the history of childhood in post-independence Ireland, and it breaks...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
An analysis of the experience and governance of unemployment
Labour, state and society in rural India
A class-relational approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Behind India's high recent growth rates lies a story of societal conflict that is scarcely talked about. Across its villages and production sites, state institutions and civil society organisations, the dominant and less well-off sections of society are engaged in antagonistic relations that determine...
by Sagarika Dutt
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book looks at India in the context of a globalized world. It starts by looking at the history of Indian civilization, exploring the roots of Indian identity and highlighting processes such as foreign invasions, foreign trade, cultural imperialism, colonial rule and the growth of Indian nationalism....
by David Bruce MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Comparing and contrasting Serbian and Croatian propaganda from 1986 to 1999, this text analyses each group's contemporary interpretations of history and current events, offering a discussion of holocaust imagery and the history of victim-centred writing in nationalist theory.
Making social democrats
Citizens, mindsets, realities: Essays for David Marquand
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
This book, a collection of essays by some of Britain’s leading academics, public intellectuals and political practitioners, seeks to engage with the ‘big picture’ of British social democracy, both historical and contemporary, and point to grounds for greater optimism for its future prospects.