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By: Norman Geras

ISBN: 9781526149527
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Norman Geras discusses a central aspect of the experience of the Holocaust with a view to exploring its most important contemporary implications. Geras's argument focuses on the figure of the bystander to consider the moral consequences of looking on without active responses at persecution and great suffering. -- .


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By: Louise Thompson

ISBN: 9781526145581
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The first book to uncover how small groups like Change UK/The Independent Group exert influence in the British Parliament, based on first-hand interviews with the MPs themselves. -- .


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By: Homer B. Pettey

ISBN: 9781526146922
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This collection provides new perspectives on the work of filmmaker Costa-Gavras. Contributors from a variety of fields examine his studies of human political crises, from the horrors of the Nazis and state totalitarianism to contemporary crises of immigration and global financial collapse. -- .


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By: Christopher Massey

ISBN: 9781526144423
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This monograph reimagines the modernisation of the Labour Party between 1979 and 1997 using entirely new source material (the Sawyer Journals and Archive) and extensive interviews with Labour's key actors. Through this research, the book sheds new light on Labour's triumphant return to power in 1997 after eighteen years in the wilderness.


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By: Eamonn O'Kane

ISBN: 9780719090837
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A re-evaluation of the Northern Ireland peace process, which offers the fullest account available of the quest to bring an end to Europes longest running modern conflict.


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By: Eamonn O'Kane

ISBN: 9781526179098
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A re-evaluation of the Northern Ireland peace process, which offers the fullest account available of the quest to bring an end to Europes longest running modern conflict.


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By: David Geiringer

ISBN: 9781526155955
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book uses original oral history material and secretive Vatican papers to explore the sexual and religious experiences of Catholic women in post-war England. It offers a fresh perspective on the idea that sex killed God, reframing dominant approaches to the histories of sex, religion and social change.


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By: David Geiringer

ISBN: 9781526138385
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book uses original oral history material and secretive Vatican papers to explore the sexual and religious experiences of Catholic women in post-war England. It offers a fresh perspective on the idea that 'sex killed God', reframing dominant approaches to the histories of sex, religion and social change. -- .


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By: Jane Wills

ISBN: 9781526134943
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Making the case for a pragmatist approach to social inquiry and knowledge production, sixteen contributors illustrate the power of pragmatism to inform democratic, community-centred, action-oriented research. -- .


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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.


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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.


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By: Richard Hillman

ISBN: 9781526144072
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Richard Hillmans latest book on the French connections of early modern English drama shows that Shakespeare regularly inflected the models provided by Italian comedy and tragicomedy by evoking French material, dramatic and non-dramatic. Such inflection especially bears on the tragic overtones that menace or complicate comic resolutions.


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By: Tom Whittaker

ISBN: 9781526131775
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is first English-language study of cine quinqui, a cycle of Spanish delinquent-themed films made in the 1970s and 1980s. Exploring how the films reflected the auditory experience of marginal youth cultures during this period, the book casts new light on the criminological, economic and political fault lines of Spains transition to democracy.


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By: Tom Whittaker

ISBN: 9781526171962
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is first English-language study of cine quinqui, a cycle of Spanish delinquent-themed films made in the 1970s and 1980s. Exploring how the films reflected the auditory experience of marginal youth cultures during this period, the book casts new light on the criminological, economic and political fault lines of Spains transition to democracy.


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By: Christopher Ivic

ISBN: 9780719088704
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book reinterprets early seventeenth-century texts by situating them within the context of Jacobean writing on Britain and Britishness. Central to its argument are ideas about nationhood, identity and community that were occasioned by the accession of a Scottish king to England's throne, contested during the Anglo-Scottish Union debates.


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By: Jeremy Pressman

ISBN: 9781526146175
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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In this lucid and timely new book Jeremy Pressman demonstrates that the default use of military force on both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict has prevented its peaceful resolution. -- .


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By: Oliver Turner

ISBN: 9781526135032
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This edited volume examines the legacies former US President Barack Obama leaves across Asia and the Pacific, as well as the endurance of, and prospects for, those legacies two years into the Presidency of Donald Trump.


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By: Oliver Turner

ISBN: 9781526135018
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This edited volume examines the legacies former US President Barack Obama leaves across Asia and the Pacific, as well as the endurance of, and prospects for, those legacies two years into the Presidency of Donald Trump. -- .


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By: M. A. Katritzky

ISBN: 9781526139177
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Pushing the complexities of theatrical connections beyond questions of national boundaries, Transnational connections in early modern theatre studies performance as a connective medium, to engage with the complex encounters, exchanges and interactions among texts, performers and communities, in a time of vastly increasing interchange and mobility.


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By: Mark Doidge

ISBN: 9781526163714
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Ultras are the most prominent form of football fandom in the 21st century, from their origins in Italy in the 1960s, this style of fandom has spread across Europe and then across the globe. This book provides the first European-wide monograph on the ultras phenomenon. -- .


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By: Mark Doidge

ISBN: 9781526127624
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2020
UK Publication Date: 31st January 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Ultras are the most prominent form of football fandom in the 21st century, from their origins in Italy in the 1960s, this style of fandom has spread across Europe and then across the globe. This book provides the first European-wide monograph on the ultras phenomenon. -- .


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By: Anne-Marie Fortier

ISBN: 9781526139085
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2021
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book investigates uncertainty as a governing practice from the unique vantage point of citizenisation - twenty-first-century integration and naturalisation measures that make and unmake citizens and migrants, while indefinitely holding many applicants for citizenship in the waiting room of citizenship.


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By: Anne-Marie Fortier

ISBN: 9781526163707
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book investigates uncertainty as a governing practice from the unique vantage point of citizenisation - twenty-first-century integration and naturalisation measures that make and unmake citizens and migrants, while indefinitely holding many applicants for citizenship in the waiting room of citizenship.


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By: Eleanor Dobson

ISBN: 9781526141880
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is the first academic study to address ancient Egypt as it was appropriated across disparate literary modes during the Victorian era. Drawing on texts by canonical authors while illuminating new sources and understudied works, it brings the highbrow and the popular into conversation, addressing contemporary ideas of race, gender and religion.

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