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By: Azzedine Haddour

ISBN: 9780719075230
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book underscores the ethical dimension of Fanons work by focusing on the interplay of language, gender and colonial politics, by discussing the implication of the medical and psychiatric establishment in the institution of colonialism and by assessing the importance of existential phenomenology in Fanons project of decolonisation.


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By: Max Silverman

ISBN: 9780719064494
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The first collection of essays on Frantz Fanon's classic anti-colonial text, 'Black Skin, White Masks'. It offers a range of interpretations of the text by leading scholars across various disciplines. -- .


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By: Richard Wilson

ISBN: 9780719091797
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A study of theatre and sovereignty that situates Shakespeare's plays in the contraflow between two absolutisms of early modern England: the aesthetic and the political -- .


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By: Kriston R. Rennie

ISBN: 9781526127723
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines the history of monastic exemption in early medieval France. In this era, the popes in Rome became de facto rulers and proprietors of numerous monasteries, establishing a foothold in the emerging business of monastic freedom and protection. The book explains the 'why' and 'how' of this relationship. -- .


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By: Brian Heffernan

ISBN: 9780719090486
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Addresses the War of Independence from a new perspective by focusing on the attitude of the Catholic clergy -- .


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By: Brian Heffernan

ISBN: 9781526106520
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Addresses the War of Independence from a new perspective by focusing on the attitude of the Catholic clergy -- .


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By: Robert Ingram

ISBN: 9781526147103
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This collection offers bold reappraisals of the history of freedom of speech in the pre-modern Anglophone world. It addresses the aims and effectiveness of official policies, the thorny issues with which contemporaries grappled and the claims that were and were not made about freedom of expression. -- .


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By: Lindsey Dodd

ISBN: 9780719097041
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 9th May 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Provides a unique perspective on the Allied bombing of France during the Second World War which killed around 57,000 French civilians. Using oral history and archival research, it provides an insight into children's wartime lives in which bombing often featured prominently, even though it has slipped out of French collective memory.


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By: Alison Smith

ISBN: 9780719063411
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2005
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A new look at the debates which shook the world of French cinema in the aftermath of May 1968, and throughout the 1970s -- .


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By: Liora Bigon

ISBN: 9780719099359
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Chronicles the design of Dakar as a regional capital, and suggests a connection between the French colonial doctrines of assimilation and association and French colonial planning and architectural policies in sub-Saharan Africa. -- .


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By: Claire Gorrara

ISBN: 9780719095498
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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By investigating representations of the war years in a selection of French crime novels from the mid-1940s to the present day, this book argues for the importance of crime fiction, and popular culture more generally, as active agents of memory in the ongoing debates over the legacies of the war years in contemporary France. -- .


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By: Homer B. Pettey

ISBN: 9781784995171
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This collection presents new essays in the complex field of French literary adaptation. Using a variety of textual and interpretive approaches, it sheds light on issues of gender, sexuality, class, politics and social conventions while acknowledging a range of contexts, from the commercial to the archival and the aesthetic. -- .


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By: Saskia Huc-Hepher

ISBN: 9781526143334
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book offers a refreshing interdisciplinary perspective on an under-researched migrant minority: the French in London. Through a blended ethnographic lens, it provides insights into the complex lived experience of cross-Channel mobility and settlement processes in on-land and on-line settings.


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By: Richard Hillman

ISBN: 9780719082764
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2010
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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With primary, though not exclusive, reference on the English side to Shakespeare and Marlowe, and on the French side to a wide range of dramatic and non-dramatic material, Hilman focuses on distinctive elements that emerge within the English tragedy of the 1590s and early 1600s.


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By: Richard Hillman

ISBN: 9780719088476
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Richard Hillman applies to tragic patterns and practices in early modern England his long-standing critical preoccupation with English-French cultural connections in the period.


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By: Richard Hillman

ISBN: 9780719099892
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Hillman explores English tragedy in relation to France with a frank concentration on Shakespeare. He sets out to theorise more abstract tragic qualities (such as nostalgia, futility and heroism) with reference to specific French texts and contexts -- .


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By: Richard Hillman

ISBN: 9780719087172
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Hillman explores English tragedy in relation to France with a frank concentration on Shakespeare. He sets out to theorise more abstract tragic qualities (such as nostalgia, futility and heroism) with reference to specific French texts and contexts


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By: David Andress

ISBN: 9780719051913
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 1999
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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French society in revolution aims to retrieve the social history of the French Revolution from neglect. This study plots a narrative course through a turbulent time, examining both the structural and cultural elements behind the breakdown of the eighteenth-century monarchic state and its aristocratic social system.


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By: David Jones

ISBN: 9780719084256
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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David Jones has translated two important collections of short stories from the late thirteenth century that were assembled in the British Isles. The collections of narratives depict working daily life as well as offering a moral and theological insight into medieval life overall. -- .


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By: David Jones

ISBN: 9780719084249
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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David Jones has translated two important collections of short stories from the late thirteenth century that were assembled in the British Isles. The collections of narratives depict working daily life as well as offering a moral and theological insight into medieval life overall. -- .


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By: Karen Garner

ISBN: 9781526157294
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This history examines the fraternal friendships and embittered masculine conflicts among British, American, and Irish national leaders and their Dublin-based advisers during the Second World War, as those leaders sought to secure or reject Irelands alliance with the Western Allied powers in their existential conflict with the fascist Axis powers.


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By: Karen Garner

ISBN: 9781526172037
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This history examines the fraternal friendships and embittered masculine conflicts among British, American, and Irish national leaders and their Dublin-based advisers during the Second World War, as those leaders sought to secure or reject Irelands alliance with the Western Allied powers in their existential conflict with the fascist Axis powers.


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By: Evgeny Roshchin

ISBN: 9781526116468
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 8th September 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is a study of friendship in international politics. It offers the history of friendship, and shows the role of friendship in building various legal and political orders on both equal and unequal terms. Told through an examination of sources ranging from diplomatic letters and bilateral treaties to poems and philosophical treatises. -- .


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By: Evgeny Roshchin

ISBN: 9781526116444
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is a study of friendship in international politics. It offers the history of friendship, and shows the role of friendship in building various legal and political orders on both equal and unequal terms. Told through an examination of sources ranging from diplomatic letters and bilateral treaties to poems and philosophical treatises. -- .

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