Manchester University Press imprint: 1048 books
Mobilising Classics
Reading radical writing in Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
The terms patriarchy, institutional racism, sustainable development and alienation may be familiar but this familiarity is often removed from the analytical contexts in which these ideas emerged. This book provides a series of rich reflections on the interaction between the radical ideas associated...
Black flags and social movements
A sociological analysis of movement anarchism
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2017
Anarchism may be the most misunderstood political ideology of the modern era, and one of the least studied social movements by English-speaking scholars. Black flags and social movements addresses this deficit with an in-depth analysis of contemporary anarchist movements as interpreted by social movement...
by Thomas Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
An interesting companion for students of cultural theory, concentrating on the four most influential thinkers - Adorno, Bourdieu, Foucault and Jameson
Liberal realism
A realist theory of liberal politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Political realism has recently moved to the centre of debates in contemporary political theory. In this monograph, Matt Sleat presents the first comprehensive overview of the resurgence of interest in realist political theory and develops a unique and original defence of liberal politics in realist...
by Susan Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book examines the writing career of the respected and prolific novelist Doris Lessing, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007 and has recently published what she has announced will be her final novel. This is the first significant book-length critical evaluation in ten years.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
The structure/agency debate has been among the central issues in recent discussions of social theory. It has been widely assumed that the key theoretical task is to find a link between social structures and acting human beings – to reconcile the macro with the micro, society and the individual....
by Anshuman A. Mondal
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Amitav Ghosh is an authoritative critical introduction to the fictional and non-fictional writings of one of the most celebrated and significant literary voices to have emerged from India in recent decades. It is the first full-length study of Amitav Ghosh's work to be available outside India. Encompassing...
The Cooke sisters
Education, piety and politics in early modern England
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This book is a study of five remarkable sixteenth-century women. Part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to a formal education, the Cooke sisters were also well-connected through their marriages to influential Elizabethan politicians. Drawing particularly on the sisters’ own writings,...
by Eyal Poleg
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
How did people learn their Bibles in the Middle Ages? Did church murals, biblical manuscripts, sermons or liturgical processions transmit the Bible in the same way? This book unveils the dynamics of biblical knowledge and dissemination in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England. An extensive and...
The biopolitics of the war on terror
Life struggles, liberal modernity and the defence of logistical societies
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Newly available in paperback, this book overturns existing understandings of the origins and futures of the War on Terror for the purposes of International Relations theory. It demonstrates why this is not a war in defence of the integrity of human life, but a war over the political constitution of...
by Lynn Dobson
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Offers a new theory of citizenship applicable beyond the nation-state. It brings political and moral philosophy together with current debates in citizenship, European integration, and international relations.
Colonial exchanges
Political theory and the agency of the colonized
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
When European nations colonized the globe, they not only imposed their power, they also spread ideas. Those living within colonized societies did not receive these ideas passively – instead, they sought to reshape and repurpose them, often in surprising or ambiguous ways. Recent scholarship in political...
John Dewey
The global public and its problems
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Narayan shows how Dewey sets out an evolutionary form of global and national democracy in his work, which has not been fully appreciated even by contemporary scholars of pragmatism, and which offers valuable lessons for the 21st century and for our own hopes for global democracy.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
How did Italy Italianise Byron? And how did Byron Byronise Italy? These are the key questions that the volume sets out to answer.