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By: Marnie Hay

ISBN: 9780719079870
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines Bulmer Hobson (1883-1969) nationalist career in the period 1900-16, as well as his lesser-known activities in the years after the rebellion. -- .


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By: Neil MacMaster

ISBN: 9780719074738
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2009
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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During the Algerian War the French army engaged in the 'emancipation' of Muslim women as part of a strategy of subverting the nationalist movement whilst also inflicting widespread violence. First comprehensive study in English of the role of Muslim women during the Algerian war, bringing a unique interdisciplinary approach to the subject.


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By: Neil MacMaster

ISBN: 9780719087547
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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During the Algerian War the French army engaged in the 'emancipation' of Muslim women, to subvert the nationalist movement while inflicting widespread violence. This contradictory, catastrophic policy, as in contemporary Afghanistan and Iraq, revealed the failure of imposed Westernisation and triggered an Islamist backlash against women's rights.


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By: N. S. Brooke

ISBN: 9780719056963
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1999
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This edition of George Chapman's tragedy is based on the Quarto of 1607 in preference to the much revised Quarto of 1641. The editor believes that the earlier text gives a more certain indication of Chapman's intentions and he has supported this view in his introduction.


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By: Alan Rawes

ISBN: 9781526100559
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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How did Italy Italianise Byron And how did Byron Byronise Italy These are the key questions that the volume sets out to answer. -- .


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By: Mona Abaza

ISBN: 9781526145116
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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With the military seizing overt power in Egypt, Cairo's grand and dramatic urban reshaping during and after 2011 is reflected upon under the lens of a smaller story narrating everyday interactions of a middle-class building in the neighbourhood of Doqi. -- .


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By: Mona Abaza

ISBN: 9781526178947
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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With the military seizing overt power in Egypt, Cairo's grand and dramatic urban reshaping during and after 2011 is reflected upon under the lens of a smaller story narrating everyday interactions of a middle-class building in the neighbourhood of Doqi. -- .


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By: Rebecca Gill

ISBN: 9780719078101
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Calculating compassion examines the origins of British relief work in late-nineteenth-century wars on the continent and the fringes of Empire. The author draws on new archival research to reveal the preoccupations of nineteenth-century relief workers, and the legacies for relief work today. -- .


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By: Andrew Spicer

ISBN: 9780719054877
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2007
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A wide-ranging and interdisciplinary study of the impact of the European Reformation on the architecture, arrangement and appearance of places of worship.


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By: Andrew Spicer

ISBN: 9780719054884
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A wide-ranging and interdisciplinary study of the impact of the European Reformation on the architecture, arrangement and appearance of places of worship. -- .


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By: Timothy Heppell

ISBN: 9780719096457
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book uses the themes of modernisation and manipulation to provide a new and distinctive analysis of the political strategy of Prime Minister David Cameron. It explores the key issues - coalition, electoral reform, Scottish independence, the Big Society, austerity and Brexit - that defined his premiership, -- .


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By: G.K. Hunter

ISBN: 9780719031007
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1999
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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One of a series of play texts by Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists other than Shakespeare, this volume discusses the plays "Campaspe" and "Sappho and Phao" by John Lyly. The series aims to throw light on the plays and to offer views of the plays that have been neglected in the past. -- .


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By: Edouard Langille

ISBN: 9780719081903
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2009
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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French language edition of Candide in Denmark, the continuation of the adventures of Voltaire's famous creation, with introduction and notes in French. -- .


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By: Valentina Vitali

ISBN: 9780719099656
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Capital and popular cinema responds to the need for a more solid academic approach by situating 'low' film genres in their economic and culturally-specific contexts and by exploring the interconnections between those contexts, the immediate industrial-financial interests sustaining the films, and the films' aesthetics.


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By: Catherine Moury

ISBN: 9781526149886
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explores the constraints on national executives in the five bailed out countries of the Eurozone - namely Greece, Cyprus, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. It also sheds light on the policy-makers discretion and motivations to revert, or alternatively to keep, policies that had been taken under conditionality.


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By: Kayhan Valadbaygi

ISBN: 9781526161789
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The book situates Iran within the motions and tendencies of global capitalism and resulting geopolitics to analyse the process of Iranian neoliberalisation and its impacts on the reconfiguration of the ruling class; reshaping of the subaltern classes and their struggles; reorganisation of the form of the state; and foreign policy of the country.


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By: Laurie Parsons

ISBN: 9781526169181
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 23rd May 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Outsourcing climate breakdown shows how the impact of climate change, including the slow-burn disasters of droughts and floods, is traded out by wealthier countries and imported by less wealthy ones as the price of economic growth.


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By: Peter William Evans

ISBN: 9780719063671
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2005
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A major reconsideration of one of British cinema's finest film directors, offering fresh insight into Carol Reed's distinctive work, and his place in the history of British cinema. -- .


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By: Timothy Bowman

ISBN: 9780719073717
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The first academic study of the Ulster Volunteer Force, a paramilitary organisation, which was formed in 1913 by Ulster Unionists opposed to the Third Home Rule Bill. The Ulster Volunteer Force provided the basis of the 36th (Ulster) Division formed in 1914 and was reactivated in 1920 to counter the I.R.A. threat to the new Northern Ireland state.


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By: Timothy Bowman

ISBN: 9780719073724
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The first academic study of the Ulster Volunteer Force, a paramilitary organisation, which was formed in 1913 by Ulster Unionists opposed to the Third Home Rule Bill. The UVF provided the basis of the 36th (Ulster) Division formed in 1914 and was reactivated in 1920 to counter the I.R.A. threat to the new Northern Ireland state. -- .


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By: Abigail Ward

ISBN: 9780719097645
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book focuses on representations of slavery in the works of contemporary British authors Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D'Aguiar, specifically exploring how racial anxieties in twenty-first century Britain may be seen as legacies of this largely ignored, but deeply significant, past. -- .


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By: Chlo Julius

ISBN: 9781526173188
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This collection investigates the methodological problem of how to see, or read, art that references literature through a series of object-focused chapters on post-1960 artworks. Variously eccentric, playful, reverential and procedural, the diverse range of works engage with literary history by testing the limits of artistic form.


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By: Susan Strange

ISBN: 9781784991340
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A classic in the field of political economy, reissued here with a new, incisive introduction. The global financial crisis that Strange predicted in her work has now taken place, and to a large extent is still happening. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Susan Strange

ISBN: 9781784992651
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A classic in the field of political economy, reissued here with a new, incisive introduction. The global financial crisis that Strange predicted in her work has now taken place, and to a large extent is still happening. -- .

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