Manchester University Press: 1049 books
by Steve Sohmer
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
An accessible, enojyable, occasionally speculative study based on a vast amount of research into some of Shakespeare's more uninterpretable moments.
by Christina Morin
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
A compelling account of the development of gothic literature in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Ireland.
by Christina H. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This book explores the Spanish elite’s fixation on social and racial ‘passing’ and ‘passers’, as represented in a wide range of texts. It examines literary and non-literary works produced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that express the dominant Spaniards’ anxiety that socially...
Image operations
Visual media and political conflict
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Still and moving images are crucial factors in contemporary political conflicts. They not only have representational, expressive or illustrative functions, but also augment and create significant events. Beyond altering states of mind, they affect bodies and often life or death is at stake. Various...
The British in Rural France
Lifestyle migration and the ongoing quest for a better way of life
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The British in rural France is a study of how lifestyle choices intersect with migration, and how this relationship frames and shapes post-migration lives. It presents a conceptual framework for understanding post-migration lives that incorporates culturally-specific imaginings, lived experiences,...
Domestic fortress
Fear and the new home front
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Today's home is a kind of fortress that tells us as much about our need for privacy as it does about ensuring our security. Fortress homes, gated communities and elaborate defensive systems have become everyday features of urban life, highlighting the depth of fear as well as the desire for prestige...
Building a peace economy?
Liberal peacebuilding and the development-security industry
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This book critically examines the range of policies and programmes that attempt to manage economic activity that contributes to political violence. It offers a new framework for understanding both the problem of economic activity in conflict zones as well as programmes aimed at managing these and...
The wounds of nations
Horror cinema, historical trauma and national identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Explores the ways in which the unashamedly disturbing conventions of international horror cinema allow audiences to engage with the traumatic legacy of the recent past in a manner that has serious implications for the ways in which we conceive of ourselves both as gendered individuals and as members of a particular nation-state.
Cultures of violence
Lynching and Racial Killing in South Africa and the American South
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book deals with the inherent violence of “race relations” in two important countries that remain iconic expressions of white supremacy in the twentieth century. Cultures of violence does not just reconstruct the era of violence. Instead it convincingly contrasts the “lynch culture” of...
The Lancashire witches
Histories and stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book is the first major study of England's biggest and best-known witch trial which took place in 1612, when ten witches were arraigned and hung in the village of Pendle in Lancashire. The book has equal appeal across the disciplines of both History and English Literature/Renaissance Studies,...
Transforming conflict through social and economic development
Practice and policy lessons from Northern Ireland and the Border Counties
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Transforming conflict through social and economic development examines lessons learned from the Northern Ireland and Border Counties conflict transformation process through social and economic development and their consequent impacts and implications for practice and policymaking, with a range of...
Challenging times, challenging administration
The role of public administration in producing social justice in Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Explores the relationship between public administration and social justice in Ireland
Creative research communication
Theory and practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Aimed at scholars interested in engaging the public with their research and postgraduate students exploring the practical aspects of research communication, this book provides a theoretically grounded introduction to new and emerging approaches to public engagement and research communication. Split...
Conservatism for the democratic age
Conservative cultures and the challenge of mass politics in early twentieth century England
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This book offers a new interpretation of the Conservative party’s revival and adaptation to democratic politics in the early twentieth century. We cannot appreciate the Conservatives’ unique success in British politics without exploring the dramatic cultural transformation which occurred within...