Manchester University Press: 1049 books
Indian foreign policy
An overview
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
As India has risen economically and militarily in recent years, its political influence on the global stage has also seen a commensurate increase. From the peripheries of international affairs, India is now at the centre of major power politics. It is viewed as a major balancer in the Asia-Pacific,...
by Caitriona Clear
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Men and women who were born, grew up and died in Ireland between 1850 and 1922 made decisions - to train, to emigrate, to stay at home, to marry, to stay single, to stay at school - based on the knowledge and resources they had at the time. This, the first comprehensive social history of Ireland for...
by Martin Johnes
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
This ground-breaking book examines the story of Wales since 1939, giving voice to ordinary people and the variety of experiences within the nation. This is a history of not just a nation, but of its residents’ hopes and fears, their struggles and pleasures and their views of where they lived and the wider world.
Spacing Ireland
Place, society and culture in a post-boom era
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Spacing Ireland explores questions of ‘space’ and ‘place’ to understand the nature of major social, cultural and economic change in contemporary Ireland.The authors explore the intersections between everyday life and global exchanges through the contexts of the ‘stuff’ of contemporary everyday encounters
by Colin Copus
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
In defence of councillors is an unashamed defence of local representative democracy and of those elected to serve as councillors from the often ill-informed, ill-judged and inaccurate criticism made by the media, government and public, of councillors' personal, political and professional roles. By...
Making work more equal
A new labour market segmentation approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
This book presents new theories and international empirical evidence on the state of work and employment around the world. Changes in production systems, economic conditions and regulatory conditions are posing new questions about the growing use by employers of precarious forms of work, the contradictory...
Mutualism and health care
Hospital contributory schemes in twentieth-century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Mutualism and health care presents the first comprehensive account of a major innovation in hospital funding before the NHS. The voluntary hospitals, which provided the bulk of Britain’s acute hospital services, diversified their financial base by establishing hospital contributory schemes. Through...
Syria and the chemical weapons taboo
Exploiting the forbidden
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
This book analyses the Syria crisis and the role of chemical weapons in relation to US foreign policy. The Syrian government's use of such weapons and their subsequent elimination has dominated the US response to the conflict, where these are viewed as particularly horrific arms - a repulsion known...
Towards a regional political class?
Professional politicians and regional institutions in Catalonia and Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Focussing on professional politicians Klaus Stolz investigates the interrelationship between political career patterns and political institutions in two of the most widely discussed cases of regionalism: Catalonia and Scotland. The study deals with two different yet closely related sets of questions:...
Irish Journalism Before Independence
More a disease than a profession
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
They reported wars, outraged monarchs and promoted the case for their country’s freedom. The remarkable stories of reporters, proprietors and propagandists fill the pages of this original and engaging volume in which sixteen leading writers celebrate the emergence of Irish Journalism from 1800 to 1922.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2017
This book uses the case of Northern Ireland to evaluate theoretical approaches in international relations. It investigates the process of negotiation that led to the signing of the Good Friday or Belfast Agreement and the continuing challenges to peace reconciliation in Northern Ireland. Incorporating...
Northern Ireland after the troubles
A society in transition
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
In the last generation, Northern Ireland has undergone a tortuous yet remarkable process of social and political change. This collection of essays aims to capture the complex and shifting realities of a society in the process of transition from war to peace.
The book brings together commentators...
Gender and the Liberal Democrats
Representing women
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Women and the Liberal Democrats is a timely and original exploration of women's representation and the third party in UK politics. Based on extensive research, it is the first comprehensive gendered analysis of the Liberal Democrats and the research highlights specific institutional factors within...
by Thomas Hajkowski
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Examining the ways in which the BBC constructed and disseminated British national identity during the second quarter of the twentieth century, this book is the first study that focuses in a comprehensive way on how the BBC, through its radio programs, tried to represent what it meant to be British.
The...