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By: Joseph Webster

ISBN: 9781526113764
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2020
UK Publication Date: 26th June 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The religion of Orange politics is an ethnographic study of the Orange Order in contemporary Scotland. The Order is ultra-Protestant, ultra-British, and ultra-unionist. It is also vehemently anti-Catholic. Drawing on new debates about the politics of hate, this book asks if religious bigotry can ever form part of human experiences of 'The Good'.


(Paperback)

By: Joseph Webster

ISBN: 9781526113771
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The religion of Orange politics is an ethnographic study of the Orange Order in contemporary Scotland. The Order is ultra-Protestant, ultra-British, and ultra-unionist. It is also vehemently anti-Catholic. Drawing on new debates about the politics of hate, this book asks if religious bigotry can ever form part of human experiences of 'The Good'.


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By: Richard Meek

ISBN: 9781526116918
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. -- .


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By: Andrew Murphy

ISBN: 9780719059179
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This collection of essays focuses attention on the broad issue of Renaissance textuality. It explores such topics as the position of the reader relative to the text; the impact of editorial strategies and modes of presentation on our understanding of the text; and the relevance of gender to the process of textual retrieval and preservation.


(Hardback)

By: Richard Brook

ISBN: 9781526154972
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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By: Matthew Kidd

ISBN: 9781526140722
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Kidd argues that emergence of Labour politics in southern England represented the renewal of the working-class radical tradition. Mapping the trajectory of Labour politics from its mid-Victorian origins to the 1920s, the book offers a new narrative that challenges conventional understandings of politics, identity and ideology in modern England.


(Hardback)

By: Laura O'Brien

ISBN: 9780719089350
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The first full study of French political caricature during the critical years of the July Monarchy and the Second Republic, when caricature was wielded as a political weapon, so much so that in 1835 the French politician Adolphe Thiers claimed that 'nothing was more dangerous' than graphic satire. -- .


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By: Hugh Cunningham

ISBN: 9781526146380
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Philanthropy, a 'love of humankind', is now thought of as the rich giving to good causes. The Reputation of Philanthropy explores how this came about and asks why praise for philanthropists has always been matched by criticism. Original and accessible, the book will inform thinking about the proper role for philanthropy today. -- .


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By: R.A. Foakes

ISBN: 9780719043758
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1996
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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R. A. Foakes's new introduction locates the play in relation to recent criticism, and explores its complexities with an eye to its contemporary relevance in the present age. This is supplemented by a guide to some of the best recent readings of the play and a commentary to help the reader with difficulties of language.


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By: David Rogers

ISBN: 9780719069727
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2004
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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An exciting and provocative collection of essays which registers the changes to 'Englishness' since the 1950s, 'The revisions of Englishness' explores how conventional ideas of 'Englishness' have been re-imagined in post-war fiction, poetry and film. -- .


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By: Edward Ashbee

ISBN: 9780719090820
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Considers the ways in which conservative activists, groupings, parties and interests in the US and Britain responded to the financial crisis and the 'Great Recession' that followed in its wake. -- .


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By: David Taylor

ISBN: 9781526113931
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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By: Anthony Cooke

ISBN: 9780719080821
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2010
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is the first full-length history of the Scottish cotton industry, from its beginnings in the late eighteenth century to its premature decline in the years leading up to the First World War. -- .


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By: Torbjorn Knutsen

ISBN: 9780719040580
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1999
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Drawing in lessons from 400 years of Great-Power politics, this volume challenges both the "declinist" arguments and the overstretched hypothesis of Paul Kennedy to develop an alternative approach to the debate on the rise and fall of the Great Powers.


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By: James Crossland

ISBN: 9781526178190
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The rise of devils chronicles the emergence of terrorism in the late nineteenth century. This era simmered with political rage and social inequalities, which drove nationalists, nihilists, anarchists and republicans to extreme measures, while an outrage-hungry press peddled hysteria, conspiracy theories and, sometimes, fake news in response.


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By: Naved Bakali

ISBN: 9781526182449
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This international edited volume examines the rise of global Islamophobia in the War on Terror across the global North and South, its impact on Muslims and Muslim communities, and resistance confronting it.


(Hardback)

By: Naved Bakali

ISBN: 9781526161758
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This international edited volume examines the rise of global Islamophobia in the War on Terror across the global North and South, its impact on Muslims and Muslim communities, and resistance confronting it.


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By: Pamela Fletcher

ISBN: 9780719084614
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The first study of how the art market developed in London and made the city the capital of the international trade in art. -- .


(Paperback, 2nd edition)

By: Conan Fischer

ISBN: 9780719060670
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2002
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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In this study of the growth of the Nazi Party, Fischer examines both long standing assumptions and newly released works in order to provide a new take on the subject.


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By: Ina Habermann

ISBN: 9781526163806
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This timely collection of essays explores British attitudes to Continental Europe that explain the Brexit decision. Addressing British-European entanglements and the impact of British Euroscepticism, the book argues that Britain is in denial about the strength of its ties to Europe, and that it needs to face Europe if it is to face the future.


(Hardback)

By: Ina Habermann

ISBN: 9781526145086
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This timely collection of essays explores British attitudes to Continental Europe that explain the Brexit decision. Addressing British-European entanglements and the impact of British Euroscepticism, the book argues that Britain is in denial about the strength of its ties to Europe, and that it needs to face Europe if it is to face the future.


(Hardback)

By: Dimitris Dalakoglou

ISBN: 9781526109330
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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An ethnographic and historical study of the main Albania-Greece highway, exploring the post-Cold War political and cultural transformation of Europe through the examination of cross-border infrastructure. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Dimitris Dalakoglou

ISBN: 9781526109347
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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An ethnographic and historical study of the main Albania-Greece highway, exploring the post-Cold War political and cultural transformation of Europe through the examination of cross-border infrastructure. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Paul Mulholland

ISBN: 9780719016301
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1990
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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An annotated edition of an important Jacobean comedy, which is currently receiving attention from critics and on stage because the leading character is based on a famous personality of the time, Moll Cutpurse.

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