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By: Tony Kushner

ISBN: 9780719066412
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Analyzing the history and memory of migrant journeys, covering not only the response of politicians and the public but also literary and artistic representations, then and now, Kushner's volume sheds new light on the nature and construction of Britishness from the early modern era onwards. -- .


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By: Thomas Hajkowski

ISBN: 9781526118844
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is the first study of how the BBC, through radio, tried to represent what it meant to be British. The book combines an examination of the BBC's desire to construct a strong, unitary sense of Britishness (through empire and the monarchy) with a thorough consideration of the broadcasting in the non-English parts of the United Kingdom.


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By: Thomas Hajkowski

ISBN: 9780719079443
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is the first study of how the BBC, through radio, tried to represent what it meant to be British. The book combines an examination of the BBC's desire to construct a strong, unitary sense of Britishness (through empire and the monarchy) with a thorough consideration of the broadcasting in the non-English parts of the United Kingdom.


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By: Robert Savage

ISBN: 9780719087332
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explores how news and information about the conflict in Northern Ireland was disseminated through the most accessible, powerful and popular form of media: television. -- .


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By: Robert Savage

ISBN: 9781526116888
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explores how news and information about the conflict in Northern Ireland was disseminated through the most accessible, powerful and popular form of media: television. -- .


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By: Rebecca Coleman

ISBN: 9780719089183
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Thinking through original empirical research, this book explores the relations between girls' bodies and images from a Deleuzian perspective. Holding in suspension models of cause-and-effect and of subject(ivity)/object(ivity) it asks, what do images make possible for the becoming of bodies -- .


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By: Paul Reid

ISBN: 9780719075711
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is the first full-length, published study of Beethoven's songs. All the composer's songs with piano are included, with full German texts and translations, together with comprehensive notes on the poetry and the music. The inclusion of unfinished songs gives a fascinating insight into Beethoven's compositional methods.


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By: Wickham Clayton

ISBN: 9781526136572
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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With contributions from major scholars such as Mikel J. Koven and Martin Stollery, and a preface by Adele Reinhartz, this collection looks at the new wave of Biblical adaptations from The Passion of the Christ (2004) onwards, taking a range of theoretical positions. -- .


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By: Julian Reid

ISBN: 9780719074066
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book provides an utterly original analysis of the social and political origins of the war on terror in liberal regimes of disciplinary and biopolitical forms of power. -- .


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By: Stephen Dyson

ISBN: 9780719079993
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2009
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Why did Tony Blair take Britain to war with Iraq This book argues that he was following the core political beliefs and style - the Blair identity - manifest and consistent throughout his decade in power. It reconstructs Blair's wars, tracing his personal influence on British foreign policy and international politics during his tumultuous tenure.


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By: Lewis Minkin

ISBN: 9780719073793
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Analyses the way that New Labour was built and sustained under Blair's leadership -- .


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By: Lewis Minkin

ISBN: 9780719073809
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Analyses the way that New Labour was built and sustained under Blair's leadership -- .


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By: Jonathan Bolton

ISBN: 9781526148469
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The Blunt Affair examines a range of literary and filmic texts on the Cambridge spies and related topics - including British intelligence's betrayal of Alan Turing, the Profumo Affair and the Portland spy case - in the context of the culture and politics of the late Cold War. -- .


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By: Katie Donington

ISBN: 9781526157515
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Tracing the activities of a single extended family - the Hibberts - this book explores how slavery impacted on the social, cultural, economic and political landscape of Britain. It is both the intimate narrative of a family and an analytical frame through which to explore Britain's history and legacies of slavery. -- .


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By: Katie Donington

ISBN: 9781526129482
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Tracing the activities of a single extended family - the Hibberts - this book explores how slavery impacted on the social, cultural, economic and political landscape of Britain. It is both the intimate narrative of a family and an analytical frame through which to explore Britain's history and legacies of slavery. -- .


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By: Hilary Charlesworth

ISBN: 9781526163585
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book argues that the absence of women in the development of international law has produced a narrow and inadequate jurisprudence that has legitimated the unequal position of women worldwide rather than confronted it.


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By: Hilary Charlesworth

ISBN: 9781526163578
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book argues that the absence of women in the development of international law has produced a narrow and inadequate jurisprudence that has legitimated the unequal position of women worldwide rather than confronted it.


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By: David Rossiter

ISBN: 9780719080388
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2009
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A standard reference work on re-drawing the map of constituencies in the UK which provides the only detailed insight into how that task is currently undertaken. -- .


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By: Derek Robbins

ISBN: 9781526156006
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The book discusses relations between philosophy and empirical social sciences through detailed analyses of the work of Schutz, Gurwitsch and Merleau-Ponty, and then explores the development of Bourdieus sociological reflexivity as his attempt to reconcile this intellectualist legacy with social research and political action.


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By: Derek Robbins

ISBN: 9780719099397
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The book discusses relations between philosophy and empirical social sciences through detailed analyses of the work of Schutz, Gurwitsch and Merleau-Ponty, and then explores the development of Bourdieu's sociological reflexivity as his attempt to reconcile this intellectualist legacy with social research and political action. -- .


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By: Peter Lake

ISBN: 9780719080500
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2001
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Analyses the tensions and contradictions within the 'religion of protestants' that dominated great swathes of the early Stuart church. This book studies puritan theology and intra-puritan theological dispute. It also studies lay clerical relations and the politics of the parish.


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By: Stuart Ward

ISBN: 9781526174468
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Turning the conventional Break-Up of Britain narrative inside-out, this book scans the horizon of overseas projections of British identities that unravelled during the decades of global decolonisation


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By: Victor Kattan

ISBN: 9781526170309
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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These chapters provide deeply researched narratives of the links between partition in India and Palestine in 1947. It focuses on the shared dynamics that shaped both regions, such as violence, the role of religion in politics, majoritarian politics, and the persistence of imperial modes of power.


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By: John M. MacKenzie

ISBN: 9781526145963
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 9th March 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Imperialism is strikingly represented in its buildings. This work illuminates the dispersal of colonial culture and religious forms, social classes, and racial divisions over two centuries, from the establishment of colonial rule to a post-colonial world. It will be a vital reading for all students of imperial history and global material culture.

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