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By: Michael O' hAodha

ISBN: 9780719083044
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book traces a number of common themes relating to the representation of Irish Travellers in Irish popular tradition and how these themes have impacted on Ireland's collective imagination. -- .


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By: Robert Armstrong

ISBN: 9780719086984
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This focused collection of essays on the alternative establishments which both Presbyterians and Catholics attempted to create in Britain and Ireland offers a dynamic new perspective on the evolution of post-reformation religious communities within Britain and Ireland. -- .


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By: Fiona Murphy

ISBN: 9780719097423
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book draws on several years of ethnographic research with African migrants in Ireland, many of whom are former asylum seekers and goes on to aruge that migrants are themselves shaping integration in their everyday lives in the face of enormous challenges. -- .


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By: Patrick McDonagh

ISBN: 9781526151643
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This collection of essays investigates the historical genealogy of our contemporary ideas of intellectual or learning disability. The essays engage with literary, educational, cultural, legal, religious, psychiatric and philosophical histories to track how and why these precursor ideas arose and explore how they helped shape current concepts.


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By: Patrick McDonagh

ISBN: 9781526125316
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This collection of essays investigates the historical genealogy of our contemporary ideas of intellectual or learning disability. The essays engage with literary, educational, cultural, legal, religious, psychiatric and philosophical histories to track how and why these precursor ideas arose and explore how they helped shape current concepts.


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By: Alan Marshall

ISBN: 9781526118899
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book provides a rich survey of the early-modern secret state, intelligence gathering espionage, and the work of spies in the British late sixteenth to mid-seventeenth-centuries.


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By: James Pfiffner

ISBN: 9780719077470
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Presents a range of scholarly analyses of how George Bush and Tony Blair used (or misused) intelligence about WMD in taking their countries to war in Iraq. The study includes original excerpts from speeches and reports on the need to go to war and what subsequently went wrong as well as cutting edge analysis of the decision-making involved.


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By: Daniel Lomas

ISBN: 9780719099144
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A ground-breaking examination of the Attlee government's intelligence activities during the early stages of the Cold War, drawn from previously unavailable documents. -- .


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By: Anca I. Lasc

ISBN: 9781526151582
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explores the origins of interior design in nineteenth-century France. It shows how new, modern techniques of image-making and reproduction enabled the still-unnamed profession of the interior designer to take shape. -- .


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By: Anca I. Lasc

ISBN: 9781526113382
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explores the origins of interior design in nineteenth-century France. It shows how new, modern techniques of image-making and reproduction enabled the still-unnamed profession of the interior designer to take shape. -- .


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By: Susie McKellar

ISBN: 9780719067297
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2004
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This fascinating collection provides a chronologically arranged set of case studies looking at how interior design has constantly redefined itself as a manifestation of culture, from the eighteenth century to the present day.


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By: Robin Jones

ISBN: 9780719069420
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines the cultural impact of colonialism on both colonizer and colonized via analysis of the domestic interiors and public spaces of empire within the Indian Subcontinent, contrasting representations of such spaces within contemporary discourse with analysis of the evidence of actual interiors and the social practices there engendered.


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By: Piero Garofalo

ISBN: 9780719090592
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is an accessible history of internal exile's origins and practices under Fascism and of its representation in film, literature and memoir. -- .


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By: Piero Garofalo

ISBN: 9781526163875
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is an accessible history of internal exile's origins and practices under Fascism and of its representation in film, literature and memoir. -- .


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By: Jenny Benham

ISBN: 9781526174499
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Was there international law in the Middle Ages This book examines the extent to which such a system of rules was known and followed in the period 700 to 1200. Taking treaties as its main source, it challenges traditional interpretations of the history of international law and how it functioned in a period before fully fledged nation states.


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By: Jenny Benham

ISBN: 9781526142283
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Was there international law in the Middle Ages This book examines the extent to which such a system of rules was known and followed in the period 700 to 1200. Taking treaties as its main source, it challenges traditional interpretations of the history of international law and how it functioned in a period before fully fledged nation states.


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By: Sufyan Droubi

ISBN: 9781526134158
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This collection of essays provides the most comprehensive study of the theory and practice of the contribution of international organisations and non-state actors to the formation of customary international law. The book offers new practical and theoretical perspectives on one of the most complex questions about the making of international law.


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By: Helen Sampson

ISBN: 9780719088681
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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By: Helen Sampson

ISBN: 9780719095535
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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By: Bart Cammaerts

ISBN: 9781784993863
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book addresses the growing gap between policy makers and (organised) citizens, and attempts by international organisations to implement a multi-stakeholder approach largely facilitated by the internet. -- .


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By: Andrew Caine

ISBN: 9780719065392
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Andrew Caine details the reaction to British and American pop films during the 1950s and 1960s to provide a valuable insight into British film criticism, teenage culture during the 1950s and 1960s and the generic status of rock films/teen movies and cultural hierarchies. -- .


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By: John Callaghan

ISBN: 9780719067198
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2003
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Interpreting the Labour Party consists of twelve essays on the principal thinkers and schools of thought concerned with the political and historical development of the Labour Party and Labour movement. -- .


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By: Samantha Newbery

ISBN: 9780719091483
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Examines the origins and effects of the use of interrogation techniques known as the 'five techniques'. Through its in-depth analysis the book reveals how British forces came to use such controversial methods in counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism and internal security contexts. -- .


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By: Patricia Allmer

ISBN: 9780719096488
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Demonstrates the significant roles taken by women artists within the history of modern and contemporary art, and expands and redefines conventional conceptions of both surrealist and modernist canons. -- .

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