Manchester University Press: 1049 books
by Lindy Brady
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
This is the first study of the Anglo-Welsh border region in the period before the Norman arrival in England, from the fifth to the twelfth centuries. Its conclusions significantly alter our current picture of Anglo/Welsh relations before the Norman Conquest by overturning the longstanding critical...
Political corruption in Ireland 1922–2010
A crooked harp?
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
The only scholarly account of Irish corruption from 1922-2010. It empirically maps the decline in standards since Irish independence in 1922, to the loss of economic sovereignty in 2010.
by Helena Grice
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Since the publication of The Woman Warrior in 1976, Maxine Hong Kingston has gained a reputation as one of the most popular -- and controversial -- writers in the Asian American literary tradition. Grice traces Kingston's development as a writer and cultural activist to both ethnic and feminist discourses.
Tasso's art and afterlives
The Gerusalemme liberata in England
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This interdisciplinary study examines the literary, artistic and biographical afterlives in England of the great sixteenth-century Italian poet Torquato Tasso, from before his death to the end of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the lasting impact of his once famous poem Gerusalemme liberata across...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This edited collection investigates New Zealand’s history as an imperial power, and its evolving place within the British Empire. It revises and expands the history of empire within, to and from New Zealand by looking at the country’s spheres of internal imperialism, its relationship with Australia,...
Monarchy, religion and the state
Civil religion in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and the Commonwealth
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Explores current religious features of the monarchy and the state that seem increasingly anachronistic in more secular and more religiously diverse societies.
The English diaspora in North America
Migration, ethnicity and association, 1730s–1950s
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Ethnic associations were once vibrant features of societies, such as the United States and Canada, which attracted large numbers of immigrants. While the transplanted cultural lives of the Irish, Scots and continental Europeans have received much attention, the English are far less widely explored....
Humanitarian aid, genocide and mass killings
Médecins Sans Frontières, the Rwandan experience, 1982–97
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Throughout the 1990s, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) faced challenges posed by the genocide of Rwandan Tutsis and a succession of outbreaks of political violence in Rwanda and in its neighbours. This book recounts the experiences of the MSF teams working in the field.
The political aesthetics of the Armenian avant-garde
The journey of the ‘painterly real', 1987–2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
This book addresses late-Soviet and post-Soviet art in Armenia in the context of turbulent transformations from the late 1980s to 2004. It explores the emergence of 'contemporary art' in Armenia from within and in opposition to the practices, aesthetics and institutions of Socialist Realism and National...
Back to the Futurists
The avant-garde and its legacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
In 1909 the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s Founding Manifesto of Futurism was published on the front page of Le Figaro. Between 1909 and 1912 the Futurists published over thirty manifestos, celebrating speed and danger, glorifying war and technology, and advocating political and artistic...
The domestic, moral and political economies of post-Celtic Tiger Ireland
What rough beast?
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Provides an analysis of neo-liberal political economics implemented in Ireland and the deleterious consequences of that model
The experience of suburban modernity
How private transport changed interwar London
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The experience of suburban modernity looks at the history of the London suburbs in the interwar years. It shows that, contrary to those accounts that portray suburbia as static and boring, these suburbs were in fact at the heart of the adoption of private transport and new mobilities. Wealthier middle-class...
by Alex Bellamy
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This volume assesses the formation of Croatian national identity in the 1990s. It develops a framework, calling into question both primordial and modernist approaches to nationalism and national identity, before applying that framework to Croatia.
Female imperialism and national identity
Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Through a study of the British Empire’s largest women’s patriotic organisation, formed in 1900, and still in existence, this book examines the relationship between female imperialism and national identity. It throws new light on women’s involvement in imperialism; on the history of ‘conservative’...