Manchester University Press: 1049 books
by Helen Boak
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The first comprehensive survey of women in the Weimar Republic, exploring the diversity and multiplicity of women’s experiences in the economy, politics and society.
German politics today
Second edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
This revised and updated edition of German politics today provides students with a comprehensive study of the modern German political system, set in the context of its historical development, including the reunification of Germany and the important developments which have taken place since the formation of the `grand coalition' government in 2005.
Islam and identity politics among British-Bangladeshis
A leap of faith
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The first book-length study to examine identity politics among the Bangladeshi diaspora delves into the micro-level dynamics, the internal and external factors and the role of the state and locates these within the broad framework of Muslim identity and Islamism, citizenship and the future of multiculturalism in Europe.
by Sabine Lee
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
This book explores the life courses of children born of war in different twentieth-century conflicts, including the Second World War, the Vietnam War, the Bosnian War, the Rwandan Genocide and the LRA conflict. It investigates both governmental and military policies vis-à-vis children born of war...
Honecker's Children
Youth and patriotism in East(ern) Germany, 1979–2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book examines the shifting identities and state loyalties of young people in East(ern) Germany during a unique period straddling the last decade of the GDR and the first decade of united Germany. It provides insight into the functioning of the GDR state, the process of German unification and the formation of national and regional identities.
Classical Hollywood cinema
Point of view and communication
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This book offers a new approach to filmic point of view by combining close analyses informed by the tools of narratology and philosophy with concepts derived from communication studies. Each chapter stages a conversation between two masterpieces of classical Hollywood cinema and one critical concept...
Passing into the present
Contemporary American fiction of racial and gender passing
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction. The book accounts for the return of tropes of...
Small states in world politics
The story of small state survival, 1648-2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
What is the story behind the paradoxical survival of small and weak states in a world of great powers and crude power politics? And what explains the dramatic rise and fall in the number of states overtime, following no consistent trend and not showing an immediately obvious direction or pattern?...
The Great Labour Unrest
Rank-and-file movements and political change in the Durham coalfield
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The Great Labour Unrest examines the struggle between liberals, socialists and revolutionary syndicalists for control of Britain's best established district miners' union. Drawing widely on a vast and rich body of primary sources, this study reveals the debates that grassroots activists had during...
The Enlightenment and religion
The myths of modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This publication offers a critical survey of religious change and its causes in 18th-century Europe. Focusing on Enlightenment Italy, France and England, the text illustrates how the canonical view of 18th-century religious change has in reality been constructed upon scant evidence and assumption
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Illustrates the complex ways in which biblical women’s narratives could be reimagined for a variety of rhetorical and religious purposes
The politics of old age
Older people's interest organisations and collective action in Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
situates the discussion of older people's interests in the international context and outlines the findings of an Irish case study
Factories for learning
Making race, class and inequality in the neoliberal academy
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Over half of England’s secondary schools are now academies. While their impact on achievement has been debated, the social and cultural outcomes prompted by this neoliberal educational model has received less scrutiny. This book draws on original research based at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated...
The power of citizens and professionals in welfare encounters
The influence of bureaucracy, market and psychology
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
This book is about power in welfare encounters. Present-day citizens are no longer the passive clients of the bureaucracy and welfare workers are no longer automatically the powerful party of the encounter. Instead, citizens are expected to engage in active, responsible and coproducing relationships...