Manchester University Press: 1049 books
The IRA 1956–69
Rethinking the Republic
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
While there have been many books written about the IRA since 1916, comparatively little attention has been paid to the organisation during the 1960s, despite the fact that the internal divisions culminating in the 1969 split are often seen as key to the conflict which erupted that year. This book,...
Template for peace
Northern Ireland, 1972–75
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
At no time in Northern Ireland’s history did so many significant political initiatives occur as between 1972 and 1975, the most violent and polarised years of the region’s conflict. Using archival sources, this book analyses the political events and processes that informed the British government’s...
A strained partnership?
US–UK relations in the era of détente, 1969–77
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The first monograph-length study that charts the coercive diplomacy of the administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford as practised against their British ally
Community and identity
The making of modern Gibraltar since 1704
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This fluent, accessible and richly informed study, based on much previously unexplored archival material, concerns the history of Gibraltar following its military conquest in 1704, after which sovereignty of the territory was transferred from Spain to Britain and it became a British fortress and colony.
Unlike...
Practising EU foreign policy
Russia and the eastern neighbours
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
This book is a novel contribution to the ‘practice theory’ turn in International Relations. It looks at practitioners’ approaches to the EU’s foreign policy to its eastern neighbourhood, particularly Russia, and offers a new methodology for capturing practices using the analytical approach...
by Patrick Thornberry
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This study of the rights of indigenous peoples looks at the historical, cultural, and legal background to the position of indigenous peoples in different cultures, including America, Africa and Australia. It defines "indigenous peoples" and looks at their position in international law.
Diversity management in Spain
New dimensions, new challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
In the current European dilemma as to whether to increase diversity policies or move towards an assimilationist policy, it is difficult to know what the Spanish approach is. This book argues that Spain represents a context of “multiple diversity”, where two frameworks interact: an old, unresolved...
by Paul Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This book considers the most electorally successful political party in Spain, the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), which was in government for two of the three decades since it won office under Felipe González in 1982. Providing rich historical background, the book’s main focus is on...
Mediterranean quarantines, 1750–1914
Space, identity and power
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Mediterranean quarantines investigates how quarantine, the centuries-old practice of collective defence against epidemics, experienced significant transformations from the eighteenth century in the Mediterranean Sea, its original birthplace. The new epidemics of cholera and the development of bacteriology...
by Daniel Spence
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Naval forces from fifteen colonial territories fought for the British Empire during the Second World War, providing an important new lens for understanding imperial power and colonial relations on the eve of decolonisation. With sources from Britain, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia, this book examines...
American foreign policy
Studies in intellectual history
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
This book offers a nuanced and multifaceted collection of essays covering a wide range of concerns, concepts, presidential doctrines, and rationalities of government thought to have marked America’s engagement with the world during this period. The collection is organised chronologically and looks...
Art and human rights
Contemporary Asian contexts
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Contemporary Asian art has had a remarkable impact on global art practice, in addition to serving as a record of the region’s history from decolonisation to the present. Many Asian artists are deeply concerned about what it means to be human and to contribute to the development of a sustainable...
Church, nation and race
Catholics and antisemitism in Germany and England, 1918–45
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Church, nation and race compares the worldviews and factors that promoted or, indeed, opposed antisemitism amongst Catholics in Germany and England after the First World War. As a prequel to books on Hitler, fascism and genocide, the book turns towards ideas and attitudes that preceded and shaped...
Cultures of decolonisation
Transnational productions and practices, 1945–70
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Cultures of decolonisation combines studies of visual, literary and material cultures in order to explore the complexities of the ‘end of empire’ as a process. Where other accounts focus on high politics and constitutional reform, this volume reveals the diverse ways in which cultures contributed...