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(Paperback, 3rd edition)

By: Torbjorn L. Knutsen

ISBN: 9780719095818
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This new edition of a hugely popular title traces discussions about international relations from the middle ages up to the present times. It presents central concepts in historical context and shows how ancient ideas still affect the way we perceive world politics. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Birgit Lang

ISBN: 9780719099434
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The case study is a modern genre that has not yet outgrown its original purpose. This collection tells the story of the genre as inseparable from the foundation of sexology and psychoanalysis, and integral to the history of European literature. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Spiros Tsoutsoumpis

ISBN: 9781784992514
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book tells the story of the Greek resistance to Axis occupation during the Second World War and in particular the life of armed guerrillas. Rather than provide a conventional military history it will illuminate for the first time the lives, experiences and thoughts of the resistance fighters during their fight against the Occupation.


(Paperback)

By: Bruce Babington

ISBN: 9780719075421
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Investigates the history of film in New Zealand. This volume looks at the very beginning of the NZ film industry, in the early years of the twentieth century, rather than concentrating on the renaissance in the 1970s. It covers various major directors, who have had international success, including Geoff Murphy, Roger Donaldson, and Lee Tamahori.


(Paperback)

By: Aaron Edwards

ISBN: 9780719086380
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is the first, definitive history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP), a unique political force in twentieth century British and Irish politics that drew its support from Protestants and Catholics and became electorally viable despite deep-seated ethnic, religious and national divisions. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Susan Mcgann

ISBN: 9780719077968
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Presents the history of Royal College of Nursing, one of the largest nursing organizations in the world. This book deals with the position of nurses in British society during 20th century by examining the largest of their organizations. It sheds light on both gender relations and the position of women in the work place in Britain since 1916.


(Paperback)

By: Lee Bliss

ISBN: 9780719080425
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2009
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This fully annotated version makes available on one of the most popular and influential plays by Beaumont and Fletcher, young contemporaries of Shakespeare. In discussing sources and stage history, the critical introduction challenges the common modern devaluation of these playwrights and offers a fresh, historically informed interpretation.


(Hardback)

By: Ladan Niayesh

ISBN: 9780719081750
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The so-called Travels of Sir John Mandeville (c. 1356) was one of the most popular books of the late Middle Ages, highly influencing European perceptions of exotic lands and peoples at the onset of the Age of Discoveries. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Amy C. Mulligan

ISBN: 9781526160751
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines major literary texts by and about the Irish in the Middle Ages, providing an analysis of a spatial poetics developed over 600 years. It argues that the Irish theorised anew the concept of place and developed a spatial turn that reconfigured how communities in the Irish Sea region thought about writing, place and identity.


(Hardback)

By: Amy C. Mulligan

ISBN: 9781526141101
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines major literary texts by and about the Irish in the Middle Ages, providing an analysis of a spatial poetics developed over 600 years. It argues that the Irish theorised anew the concept of place and developed a spatial turn that reconfigured how communities in the Irish Sea region thought about writing, place and identity.


(Paperback)

By: Rachelle Saltzman

ISBN: 9780719096761
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A lark for the sake of their country tells the tale of the upper and middle-class 'volunteers' in Great Britain's 1926 General Strike. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Jeannette Baxter

ISBN: 9781784993504
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Investigates the crucial question of 'restitution' in the work of W. G. Sebald. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplines, with a foreword by his English translator Anthea Bell. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Robert Savage

ISBN: 9781784991128
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explores the evolution of Ireland's national television service during its first tumultuous decade addressing how the medium helped undermine the conservative political, cultural and social consensus that dominated Ireland into the 1960s. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Charmian Brinson

ISBN: 9780719099809
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Details the surveillance by the British security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain fleeing political persecution in Germany and Austria -- .


(Hardback)

By: Charmian Brinson

ISBN: 9780719090790
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Details the surveillance by the British security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain fleeing political persecution in Germany and Austria -- .


(Paperback)

By: Becky Taylor

ISBN: 9780719091261
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is the only general history of Britain's travelling communities in the twentieth century and covers state and legal developments affecting Travellers as well as their experiences of missions, education, warand welfare. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Elaine Farrell

ISBN: 9780719088209
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines the phenomenon of infanticide in Ireland from 1850 to 1900. It is based on a large sample of 4,645 individual cases of infant murder, attempted infanticide and concealment of birth. Through a variety of sources, attitudes towards the crime of infanticide and women accused of the offence are revealed. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Elaine Farrell

ISBN: 9781784993603
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines the phenomenon of infanticide in Ireland from 1850 to 1900. It is based on a large sample of 4,645 individual cases of infant murder, attempted infanticide and concealment of birth. Through a variety of sources, attitudes towards the crime of infanticide and women accused of the offence are revealed. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Christina Luckyj

ISBN: 9780719083259
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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An investigation of a wide range of contemporary sources, from domestic conduct guides to emblem books, this study offers fresh perspectives on both culture and literature. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Dr Aled Davies

ISBN: 9781526146526
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A neoliberal revolution examines the Thatcher governments attempt to privatise and individualise Britains pension system, thereby transforming workers into risk-taking savers with a stake in capitalism. The book explains why this revolution failed and charts the malign legacy left by the evolutionary reforms which ministers salvaged from it.


(Hardback)

By: Chris Duke

ISBN: 9780719088308
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Analyses co-operation between universities and regional authorities -- .


(Hardback)

By: Quintin Colville

ISBN: 9781526113801
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This volume brings together a diverse selection of the latest academic research in the field of naval history. It is the first publication to capture a new form of naval history that engages with race, sexuality, gender, material culture, popular culture and fine art. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Jay Rowell

ISBN: 9781784993948
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Based on a critical appraisal of the constructivist approach in European studies, this volume introduces a new political sociology approach focused on actors. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Jay Rowell

ISBN: 9780719082436
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Based on a critical appraisal of the constructivist approach in European studies, this volume introduces a new political sociology approach focused on actors. -- .

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