Manchester University Press imprint: 1048 books
The New Bauman Reader
Thinking Sociologically in Liquid Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Zygmunt Bauman has written more than seventy books over five decades, most taking a single subject and finding doors to open it in all directions. His work is an essential reference point in sociology, but it is time that everyone caught up with him. In this book Tony Blackshaw doesn't just tell us...
Ireland under austerity
Neoliberal crisis, neoliberal solutions
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Once held up as a 'poster child' for the benefits of untrammeled capitalist globalisation, the Irish Republic has more recently come to represent a cautionary tale for those tempted to tread the same neoliberal path. The crash in the world economy had especially grave repercussions for Ireland, as...
The US vs China
Asia's new Cold War?
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
This book addresses the most important question in geopolitics today - the future of relations between the US and China. Concerned that the rise of China will challenge the its hegemony in world affairs, the US has decided to reassert its influence in Asia to counteract any challenge. Examining and...
The Great Forgetting
The Past, Present and Future of Social Democracy and the Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The Great Forgetting: The Past, Present, and Future of Social Democracy and the Welfare State reminds us that we were much happier when we were more equal, shared common goals, and trusted that government would be there for all of us when we needed it. The Great Forgetting emphasises that economic...
Might, Right, Prosperity and Consent
Representative Democracy and the International Economy 1919-2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book offers an original analysis of the problem of the authority of the state in democracies. Unlike many discussions of democracy that treat authority as a problem primarily of domestic politics or normative values, this book puts the international economy at the centre of the analysis. This...
Europe's path to crisis
Disintegration via monetary union
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
A deeply flawed currency union has plunged Europe into its biggest crisis since the Second World War. The Euro was the brainchild of political leaders impatient to speed up the journey towards a united Europe. Countries with contrasting economic conditions and needs ceded key financial decisions to...
Popular culture and working–class taste in Britain, 1930–39
A round of cheap diversions?
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book examines the relationship between class and culture in 1930s Britain. Focusing on the reading and cinema-going tastes of the working classes, Robert James’ landmark study combines rigorous historical analysis with a close textual reading of visual and written sources to appraise the role...
Robespierre and the Festival of the Supreme Being
The search for a republican morality
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The search for a republican morality provides an exciting new study of an important event in the French Revolution and a defining moment in the career of its principal actor, Maximilien Robespierre, the Festival of the Supreme Being. This day of national celebration was held to inaugurate the new...
Ghost-haunted land
Contemporary art and post-Troubles Northern Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 — the formal end-point of the thirty-year modern ‘Troubles’ — contemporary visual artists have offered diverse responses to post-conflict circumstances in Northern Ireland. In Ghost-Haunted Land — the first book-length examination of...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Anne Clifford (1590–1676) was a prominent noble woman in the seventeenth century. During her long life she experienced the courts of Elizabeth, James and Charles I. She fought a decades long battle to secure her inheritance of the Clifford lands of the north, providing a spirited and legally robust...
Frontiers of servitude
Slavery in narratives of the early French Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Frontiers of servitude explores the fundamental ideas behind early French thinking about Atlantic slavery in little-examined printed and archival sources, focusing on what 'made' a slave, what was unique about Caribbean labour, and what strategic approaches meant in interacting with slaves. From c....
Indispensable immigrants
The wine porters of Northern Italy and their saint, 1200–1800
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Indispensable immigrants recreates the world of peasants who streamed into the cities of late medieval and early modern northern Italy to carry crushingly heavy containers of wine. Written in an easily accessible and unassuming style, it is solidly grounded in previously untapped archival and visual...
by Jago Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
A major new study of Africa’s most important writer, offering a comprehensive reassessment of Achebe’s work as a novelist, broadcaster and political thinker
Degeneration, decadence and disease in the Russian fin de siècle
Neurasthenia in the life and work of Leonid Andreev
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Explores the implications of scientific discourse on Russian concepts of mental illness and national health