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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: 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: 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: 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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By: Claire Eldridge

ISBN: 9780719087233
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explores the memory of the war of independence in France as viewed by the former European settlers (pieds-noirs) and the harkis, those Algerians who worked for the French security forces. It examines how the memorial dynamics of the two groups are related both to each other and to other memories of the war. -- .


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By: Claire Eldridge

ISBN: 9781526127167
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explores the memory of the war of independence in France as viewed by the former European settlers (pieds-noirs) and the harkis, those Algerians who worked for the French security forces. It examines how the memorial dynamics of the two groups are related both to each other and to other memories of the war. -- .


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By: Ian Donnachie

ISBN: 9780719066719
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2003
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Designed to accompany the OU course "From Enlightenment to Romanticism", this anthology provides primary and secondary sources on the death of the Old Regime, the Napoleonic phenomenon, slavery, religion and reform. Introductory sections explain the context and importance of the sources.


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By: Carmen Lavin

ISBN: 9780719066733
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2004
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Designed to accompany the OU course "From Enlightenment to Romanticism", this anthology provides primary and secondary sources on changing landscapes, new forms of knowledge, conceptions of art and the artist and the exotic and Oriential. Introductory sections explain the context of the sources.


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By: John Street

ISBN: 9781784993955
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Drawing on research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, this book provides the first detailed study of how young people in Britain use popular culture to shape and express their political views and values. -- .


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By: Tim William Machan

ISBN: 9781526128751
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This volume looks at how Leif Eiriksson's visit to Vinland around the year 1000 has been reimagined in the modern era, taking on a range of media from scholarly works on history and mythology to novels, films and comic books. More broadly, it asks why medieval contact has become a modern cultural touchstone. -- .


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By: Michelle Cini

ISBN: 9780719065057
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explores how the European Commission has addressed criticism of its administrative ethics since 1999. -- .


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By: Mary A. Conley

ISBN: 9781526106674
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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In this pioneering study, Conley examines the intersection between empire, navy, and manhood in British society from 1870 to 1918. Jack Tar to Union Jack is indispensable reading as it reminds us of the navy's long-standing influence upon British domestic and imperial culture. -- .


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By: Donnacha Beachin

ISBN: 9780719085833
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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From Partition to Brexit provides an authoritative and accessible analysis of how successive Irish governments have tried to overcome the challenges presented by the division of Ireland, including the decades-long conflict that claimed thousands of lives. -- .

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