Manchester University Press: 1049 books
by Simon Kovesi
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
James Kelman is Scotland’s most influential contemporary prose artist. This is the first book-length study of his groundbreaking novels, and it analyses and contextualises each in detail. It argues that while Kelman offers a coherent and consistent vision of the world, each novel should be read...
The politics of vaccination
A global history
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Mass vaccination campaigns are political projects that presume to protect individuals, communities, and societies. Like other pervasive expressions of state power - taxing, policing, conscripting - mass vaccination arouses anxiety in some people but sentiments of civic duty and shared solidarity in...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This book offers the first systematic critical appraisal of the uses of work and work therapy in psychiatric institutions across the globe, from the late eighteenth to the end of the twentieth century. Contributors explore the daily routine in psychiatric institutions and ask whether work was therapy,...
Fleshing out surfaces
Skin in French art and medicine, 1650–1850
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Fleshing out surfaces is the first English-language book on skin and flesh tones in art. It considers flesh and skin in art theory, image making and medical discourse in seventeenth to nineteenth-century France. Describing a gradual shift between the early modern and the modern period, it argues that...
The silent morning
Culture and memory after the Armistice
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
This is the first book to study the cultural impact of the Armistice of 11 November 1918. It contains 14 new essays from scholars working in literature, music, art history and military history. The Armistice brought hopes for a better future, as well as sadness, disappointment and rage. Many people...
by Brian Baker
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
A clearly written, comprehensive critical introduction to one of the most original contemporary British writers, providing an overview of all of Sinclair's major works and an analysis of his vision of modern London
From reason to practice in bioethics
An anthology dedicated to the works of John Harris
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This anthology gathers together original works from some of bioethics’ most celebrated scholars. Focused on and around the works of John Harris, the book addresses the most debated issues in contemporary bioethics, and will serve as an excellent text and resource for students, scholars, and practitioners interested in bioethics.
Bess of Hardwick
New perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Bess of Hardwick was one of the most extraordinary figures of Elizabethan England. She was born the daughter of a country squire. But by the end of her long life (which a recent redating of her birth suggests was even longer than previously thought) she was the richest woman in England outside the...
Literature of the Stuart successions
An anthology
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Literature of the Stuart Successionsisan anthology of primary material relating to the Stuart successions. The six Stuart successions (1603, 1625, 1660, 1685, 1688-9, 1702) punctuate this turbulent period of British history. In addition, there were two accessions to the role of Lord Protector (those...
Working in a world of hurt
Trauma and resilience in the narratives of medical personnel in warzones
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Focuses on doctors and nurses in wartime casualty clearing stations, hospitals and prison camps
by Jana Funke
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This book presents a wide range of previously unpublished works by Radclyffe Hall. These new materials significantly broaden and complicate critical views of Hall's writings. They demonstrate the stylistic and thematic range of her work and cover diverse topics, including 'outsiderism', gender, sexuality,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This volume considers classical mythology in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The eleven essays approach tropes and figures from multiple perspectives: genre, gender, translation, classical reception and history.
The imperial premiership
The role of the modern Prime Minister in foreign policy making, 1964–2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Recent votes in the House of Commons on British military intervention have put foreign policy at the heart of public consciousness. This book spans British foreign policy over the last fifty years and nine premierships from Harold Wilson to David Cameron. Based on the author's first-hand interviews...
Aesthetics of contingency
Writing, politics, and culture in England, 1639–89
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
This new study raises fundamental questions about the nature of imaginative writing in the age of ‘England’s troubles’. Drawing energy from recent debates in Stuart history, this book looks past the traditional watersheds of Restoration and Revolution, plotting the responsiveness of seventeenth-century...