Manchester University Press: 1049 books
by Arthur Aughey
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The politics of Englishness provides a digest of the debates about England and Englishness and a unique perspective on those debates. Not only does the book provide readers with ready access to and interpretation of the significant literature on the English Question, it also enables them to make sense...
by Steven King
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
At the core of this book are three central contentions: That medical welfare became the totemic function of the Old Poor Law in its last few decades; that the poor themselves were able to negotiate this medical welfare rather than simply being subject to it; and that being doctored and institutionalised...
by Kevern Verney
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
This volume in the Issues in Historiography series examines the changing scholarly debate on individuals and events in African American history from the 1890s to the present. It highlights how over time the work of scholars has reflected both advances in academic understanding and wider developments in race relations in American society.
by Tijana Tijana Vujoševic
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Modernism and the Making of the New Man is a history or Soviet architecture that is unique in that, instead of styles or great architects, it focuses on the design of communist subjectivity – the notion of the “new man”.
After '89
Polish theatre and the political
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
After '89 takes as its subject the dynamic new range of performance practices that have been developed since the demise of communism in the flourishing theatrical landscape of Poland. After 1989, the theatre has retained its historical role as the crucial space for debating and interrogating cultural...
Sport in the Black Atlantic
Cricket, Canada and the Caribbean diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
This book outlines the ways sport helps to create transnational social fields that interconnect migrants dispersed across a region known as the Black Atlantic: England, North America and the Caribbean. Many Caribbean men's stories about their experiences migrating to Canada, settling in Toronto, finding...
The same-sex unions revolution in Western democracies
International norms and domestic policy change
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This book examines same-sex unions policy (SSU) developments in eighteen western democracies and seeks to explain why the overwhelming majority of these countries has implemented a national law to recognise gay and lesbian couples since 1989.
‘Who the Devil taught thee so much Italian?’
Italian language learning and literary imitation in early modern England
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book offers a comprehensive account of the methods and practice of learning modern languages, particularly Italian, in late sixteenth and early seventeenth century England. It is the first study to suggest that there is a fundamental connection between these language-learning habits and the techniques...
The machine and the ghost
Technology and spiritualism in nineteenth- to twenty-first-century art and culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Focusing on our complex relationship with technology, The machine and the ghost explores our culture’s continued fascination with the spectral, the ghostly and the paranormal. Through a series of critical case studies and artists’ discussions, this lively new collection examines topics ranging...
Sites of imperial memory
Commemorating colonial rule in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Europe’s great colonial empires have long been a thing of the past, but the memories they generated are still all around us. They have left deep imprints on the different memory communities that were affected by the processes of establishing, running and dismantling these systems of imperial rule,...
by Sam Rohdie
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
This book is at once a detailed study of a range of individual filmmakers and a study of the modernism in which they are situated. It consists of fifty categories arranged in alphabetical order, among which are allegory, bricolage, classicism, contradiction, desire, destructuring and writing. Each...
by Brian Sudlow
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book comparitively explores the French and English Catholic literary revivals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Decentring France
Multilingualism and power in contemporary French cinema
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
In a world defined by the flow of people, goods and cultures, many contemporary French films explore the multicultural nature of today’s France through language. From rival lingua francas such as English to socio-politically marginalised languages such as Arabic or Kurdish, multilingual characters...
by Joseph McGonagle
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Investigation of representation of ethnicities across a range of media in contemporary France.