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By: Geoff Pearson

ISBN: 9780719087219
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Ethnographic account of English football fans who travel home and away following their team, based on sixteen years' participant observation -- .


(Hardback)

By: Stewart Allen

ISBN: 9781784992996
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Through an ethnographic study of the 'Barefoot College', an internationally renowned non- governmental development organisation (NGO) situated in Rajasthan, India, this book investigates the methods and practices by which a development organisation materialises and manages a construction of success -- .


(Hardback)

By: A. D. M. Phillips

ISBN: 9780719077067
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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An Historical Atlas of Staffordshire is the first attempt to demonstrate the varied historical development of Staffordshire through maps. Its use of cartography, in conjunction with succinct discussions, to illustrate themes from Roman times to the twentieth century, throws new and revealing light on Staffordshire's past. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Charles Edelman

ISBN: 9781526116925
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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George Chapman's An Humorous Day's Mirth is one of the Elizabethan theatre's most successful comedies. In his new Revels edition, Charles Edelman presents a play that will delight today's readers and audiences as much as it did those of 1597. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Charles Edelman

ISBN: 9780719075742
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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George Chapman's An Humorous Day's Mirth is one of the Elizabethan theatre's most successful comedies. In his new Revels edition, Charles Edelman presents a play that will delight today's readers and audiences as much as it did those of 1597. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Richard Kilborn

ISBN: 9780719048937
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1997
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This introduction to television documentaries spotlights their history, production and reception, principal forms and functions and their adaptation to today's programming needs.


(Hardback)

By: Gavin Schaffer

ISBN: 9781526165473
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 18th February 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This up-to-date history of Britains Jewish community focuses on the experiences of Jewish people themselves. It offers insight into the lives of queer Jews, Jews married to non-Jews, Israel-critical Jews, Messianic Jews and others.


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By: Richard Cleminson

ISBN: 9781526124487
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book traces the convergence between anarchism, as an anti-authoritarian, anti-statist political doctrine, and eugenics, the science of 'race improvement' in five countries between 1890 and 1940. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Richard Cleminson

ISBN: 9781526124463
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book traces the convergence between anarchism, as an anti-authoritarian, anti-statist political doctrine, and eugenics, the science of 'race improvement' in five countries between 1890 and 1940. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Laurence Davis

ISBN: 9780719079344
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2010
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The first book-length treatment of the relationship between anarchism and utopianism reveals the anarchistic influences active in the history of utopian thought. It provides fresh perspectives on academic and activist debates about ecology, alternatives to capitalism, revolutionary theory and practice, and the politics of art, gender and sexuality.


(Paperback)

By: Laurence Davis

ISBN: 9780719096679
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The first book-length treatment of the relationship between anarchism and utopianism reveals the anarchistic influences active in the history of utopian thought. It provides fresh perspectives on academic and activist debates about ecology, alternatives to capitalism, revolutionary theory and practice, and the politics of art, gender and sexuality.


(Hardback)

By: Ruth Kinna

ISBN: 9781784993412
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A volume that focuses on the complex and multifaceted answers that the international anarchist movement gave to the outbreak of the First World War and its aftermaths and, in turn, the impact of the Great War on the anarchist movement. -- .


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By: Nicholas Apoifis

ISBN: 9781526100597
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Based on extensive first-hand fieldwork, this book offers rare insight into activist ethnography and the role of emotions and violence in social movement reproduction, with implications extending far beyond the study locale. -- .


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By: Bill Marshall

ISBN: 9780719058325
Readership/Audience: Adult Education
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The first full-length monograph in English about one of France's most important contemporary filmmakers, locating Andr Tchin within historical and cultural contexts that include the Algerian war, contemporary globialisation, and the influence of Roland Barthes, Bertolt Brecht, Ingmar Bergman, William Faulkner and the cinematic French wave.


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By: Sarah Cardwell

ISBN: 9780719064920
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2005
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Offers a critical appraisal of the work of screenwriter Andrew Davies ('Pride and Prejudice', 'The Way We Live Now'), and assesses his contribution to British television. -- .


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By: Christophe Charle

ISBN: 9780719096556
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This collection of essays written by scholars from a variety of disciplines is about a favourite game of Anglo-French intellectual life since the eighteenth century: the game of cultural transfers and comparisons between English and French intellectuals themselves. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Tony Kushner

ISBN: 9780719076541
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2009
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A study of the history and memory of Anglo-Jewry that focuses on the relationship between the local, the national and the global. It explores the construction of identities, both Jewish and non-Jewish, in relation to the concept of place.


(Paperback)

By: Tony Kushner

ISBN: 9780719085987
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is a study of the history and memory of Anglo-Jewry from medieval to the present. The particular focus is on the relationship between the local (in this case Hampshire), the national and the global. -- .


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By: Terry Macintyre

ISBN: 9780719076008
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2007
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book brings together a breadth of documentary and anecdotal evidence to challenge exisiting theories about the relationship between Britain and Germany at a critical period during the Cold War, and to show that both countires came to recognise the importance of working for the creation of a more united Europe. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Jacopo Pili

ISBN: 9781526159656
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Anglophobia in Fascist Italy depicts how the Fascist regime disseminated its particular image of Great Britain, consistent with its own ideological imperatives, and puts to the test effectiveness of this messaging among the Italian people.


(Paperback, 2nd edition)

By: Robert Garner

ISBN: 9780719066214
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2004
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is an extensively re-written, comprehensive and up-to-date second edition of a well-regarded and much cited text on the politics and philosophy of animal protection. -- .


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By: Jemma Field

ISBN: 9781526142498
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines Anna of Denmarks engagement with visual and material goods, including architecture, garden design, painting and jewellery. It contextualises the consorts place within the wider socio-political environment of the Stuart courts and provides a comprehensive understanding of her personal iconography, aims, interests and alliances.


(Paperback)

By: Jessica L. Malay

ISBN: 9781526117885
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Anne Clifford describes the dramatic and tragic events of her life in the seventeenth century. Of how she danced in the masques of Inigo Jones, experienced both joy and abuse in her two marriages, lost and gained an inheritance, and successfully defended her rights against kings and armies. All told in rich detail amidst the backdrop of daily life.


(Hardback)

By: Jessica L. Malay

ISBN: 9781526117878
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Anne Clifford describes the dramatic and tragic events of her life in the seventeenth century. Of how she danced in the masques of Inigo Jones, experienced both joy and abuse in her two marriages, lost and gained an inheritance, and successfully defended her rights against kings and armies. All told in rich detail amidst the backdrop of daily life.

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