Manchester University Press: 1049 books
The Labour governments 1964–1970 volume 1
Labour and cultural change
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book looks at how the British Labour Party came to terms with the 1960's 'cultural revolution', specifically changes to: the class structure, place of women, black immigration, the generation gap and calls for direct political participation.
The end of the Irish Poor Law?
Welfare and healthcare reform in revolutionary and independent Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
This book examines Irish Poor Law reform during the years of the Irish revolution and Irish Free State. This work is a significant addition to the growing historiography of the twentieth century which moves beyond political history, and demonstrates that concepts of respectability, social class and...
The tide of democracy
Shipyard workers and social relations in Britain, 1870–1950
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This comprehensive study examines British shipbuilding and industrial relations from 1870 to 1950, addressing economic, social and political history to provide an holistic approach to industry, trade-unionism and the early history of the Labour Party. Examining the impact of new machinery, of independent...
George III
King and politicians 1760–1770
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The eighteenth-century was long deemed 'the classical age of the constitution' in Britain, with cabinet government based on a two-party system of Whigs and Tories in Parliament, and a monarchy whose powers had been emasculated by the Glorious Revolution o. This study furthers the work of Sir Lewis...
Incarceration and human rights
The Oxford Amnesty Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
A collection of essays and responses from diverse contributors united in original examination of the intersection between incarceration and human rights. Poets, practitioners, academics and theorists offer an illuminating range of perspectives for specialists and the general reader.
The Scots in South Africa
Ethnicity, identity, gender and race, 1772–1914
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The first full-length book to deal with Scottish emigration to South Africa and the resulting conflicts and relationships with African peoples. Deals with exploration, scientific endeavour, military campaigns, Christian missions, western education, intellectual institutions and the professions, technology, business, commerce and journalism.
Co-memory and melancholia
Israelis memorialising the Palestinian Nakba
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The 1948 war that led to the creation of the State of Israel also resulted in the destruction of Palestinian society when some 80 per cent of the Palestinians who lived in the major part of Palestine upon which Israel was established became refugees. Israelis call the 1948 war their ‘War of Independence’...
We are no longer in France
Communists in colonial Algeria
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
This book recovers the lost history of colonial Algeria’s communist movement. Meticulously researched – and the only English-language book on the Parti Communiste Algérien – it explores communism’s complex relationship with Algerian nationalism. During international crises, such as the Popular...
Fools and idiots?
Intellectual disability in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Fools and idiots? is the first book devoted to the cultural history in the pre-modern period of people we now describe as having learning disabilities. Using an interdisciplinary approach, including historical semantics, medicine, natural philosophy and law, Irina Metzler considers a neglected field...
by Mark Webber
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book examines the balance between inclusion and exclusion that has resulted as a consequence of NATO and EU enlargement. The broader context of enlargement - how NATO and the EU have shaped Europe’s security relations since the end of the Cold War - is also considered.
French colonial Dakar
The morphogenesis of an African regional capital
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This volume explores the planning and architectural cultures that shaped the model space of French colonial Dakar, a prominent city in West Africa. With a focus on the period from the establishment of the city in the mid-nineteenth century until the interwar years, the book reveals a variety of urban...
Power in modern Russia
Strategy and mobilisation
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
It offers an original and powerful argument about Russian power and introduces and discusses the term 'mobilisation' as a central element of the Russian state’s actions. It explores the Russian leadership’s strategic agenda and illuminates the range of problems it faces in implementing it.
by Eve Hepburn
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book explores how regional political parties use Europe to advance their territorial projects in times of rapid state restructuring. It examines the ways in which decentralization and supranational integration have encouraged regional parties to pursue their strategies across multiple territorial...
French children under the Allied bombs, 1940–45
An oral history
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Children under the Allied bombs in France provides a unique perspective on the Allied bombing of France during the Second World War which killed around 57,000 French civilians. Using oral history as well as archival research, it provides an insight into children's wartime lives in which bombing often...