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By: Sue Wheatcroft

ISBN: 9781784991197
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The first detailed study on the experiences of disabled children during the Second World War. -- .


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By: Elizabeth Vinestock

ISBN: 9780719085871
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Essays studying the dominant theme of conflict in cultural, literary and religious life in France in the sixteenth-century, revealed through nuanced analyses of the writings of contemporary authors. -- .


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By: John Baker

ISBN: 9781526123367
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 23rd October 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This volume explores the notion of the 'self' as it was elaborated and expressed by philosophers, novelists, churchmen, poets and diarists in the Enlightenment. The questions raised by the twelve essays and the introduction, explore the unity, diversity and fragility of a recognisably modern self. -- .


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By: James Procter

ISBN: 9780719053825
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2000
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This anthology brings together a diverse range of black British literatures, essays and documents from across the post-war period. Spanning half a century, it features South Asian, African and Caribbean cultural production by both leading and lesser-known artists, critics and commentators.


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By: Rehana Ahmed

ISBN: 9781526116772
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent, including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam -- .


(Hardback)

By: Rehana Ahmed

ISBN: 9780719087400
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent, including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam -- .


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By: Stephen Cheeke

ISBN: 9780719083242
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Ekphrasis is the technical term for the relationship between literary texts and the visual or the plastic arts, whereby writers write about paintings, photograpy or works of art. This is a concise introduction -- .


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By: Vincent McInerney

ISBN: 9780719058431
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2001
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Writing for radio brings together theoretical and practicalaspects of radio writing. It deals with writing for all principal radio genres short stories, plays, documentaries/drama documentaries, talks and features,adaptations/dramatisations, poems, and advertisements.


(Hardback)

By: Andrew Thompson

ISBN: 9780719086007
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book appraises the critical contribution of the Studies in Imperialism series to the writing of imperial histories as the series passes its 100th publication. The volume brings together some of the most distinguished scholars writing today to explore the major intellectual trends in Imperial history. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Andrew Thompson

ISBN: 9780719096792
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book appraises the critical contribution of the Studies in Imperialism series to the writing of imperial histories as the series passes its 100th publication. The volume brings together some of the most distinguished scholars writing today to explore the major intellectual trends in Imperial history. -- .


(Hardback)

By: John Beckett

ISBN: 9780719029509
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2007
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book describes the development of local history in England from its origins in the Middle Ages to its practise in the early twenty-first century. It looks also at how local history is related to archaeology, landscape, and family history. -- .


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By: John Beckett

ISBN: 9780719076602
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2007
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book describes the development of local history in England from its origins in the Middle Ages to its practise in the early twenty-first century. It looks also at how local history is related to archaeology, landscape, and family history. -- .


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By: William Welstead

ISBN: 9781526156570
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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An animal studies and ecocritical approach to poetry on sheep in the context of agro-pastoral societies and environmental crisis.


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By: Jackie Stacey

ISBN: 9781526106988
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A collection of essays by established feminist and cultural critics interested in experimenting with new styles of expression. -- .


(Paperback, 2nd edition)

By: David Campbell

ISBN: 9780719055492
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1998
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The main issues of this work are the construction of US identity, as seen particularly in its foreign policy, and structural issues of identity. It examines the way in which the identity of the USA has been written and rewritten through foreign policies operating in its name.


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By: Paul Cavill

ISBN: 9780719099588
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Historians and literary scholars explore the rise of parliament in the historical imagination of Tudor and early Stuart England. Collectively the essays demonstrate that the evolution of historical conceptions of parliament was central to the ecclesiological and political thinking and culture of the period before the English Revolution. -- .


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By: Brice Dickson

ISBN: 9781526131935
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The purpose of the book is to raise awareness of the uniqueness of the United Kingdom's unwritten constitution and to make it clear how the devolution of powers to the home nations, begun in 1998, coupled with the trials and tribulations associated with Brexit. -- .


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By: Richard Jackson

ISBN: 9780719071218
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2005
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines the language of the war on terrorism. It is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand how the Bush administration's approach to counter-terrorism became the dominant policy paradigm in American politics today. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Lindy Brady

ISBN: 9781784994198
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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An ambitious book which argues that the March of Wales, as it existed as a legally defined space in the period after 1066, had a long pre-history as a place of encounter and interchange from the early Anglo-Saxon period. It is argued that this frontier space was not inevitably a zone of ethnic conflict, but one where hybrid identities could exist.


(Paperback)

By: Lindy Brady

ISBN: 9781526139320
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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An ambitious book which argues that the March of Wales, as it existed as a legally defined space in the period after 1066, had a long pre-history as a place of encounter and interchange from the early Anglo-Saxon period. It is argued that this frontier space was not inevitably a zone of ethnic conflict, but one where hybrid identities could exist.


(Hardback)

By: Danita Catherine Burke

ISBN: 9781526153821
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explores WWFs approach toward engagement in the Circumpolar North and reasons why it is relatively well-received by key northern audiences. It argues that the foundation of WWFs success is based on four inter-related strategic pillars: legacy, networks, scientific research and communication style.


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By: Federico Garcia Lorca

ISBN: 9780719041310
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1994
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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In "Yerma", the second of his trilogy of rural dramas, Lorca charts the increasingly destructive obsession of a childless young country wife, and probes the darker zones of human fears and desires. The Spanish text is supported by an introduction and critical notes in English.


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By: Celia Hughes

ISBN: 9781526133779
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Examines the coming of age experiences of young men and women who became active in radical left circles in 1960s England. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Ben Lamb

ISBN: 9781526125859
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is the first comprehensive investigation of British television police series from 1955 to the present. It reveals how the popular genre has developed along stylistic, thematic and philosophical lines, simultaneously providing a socio-political history of British class, culture and gender. -- .

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