Manchester University Press imprint: 1048 books
Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution
Populism and democracy in a globalised age
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The emergence of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela has revived analysis of one of Latin America’s most enduring political traditions – populism. Yet Latin America has changed since the heyday of Perón and Evita. Globalisation, implemented through harsh IMF inspired Structural Adjustment Programmes, has...
by Angela Bourne
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
How does the European Union affect nationalist conflict and devolution in member states? This books explores this question in the case of Spain, where devolution has been an important instrument for managing nationalist conflict, and the Basque Country, where one of Europe's most protracted nationalist conflicts persists.
by Edward Ashbee
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
This bookconsiders the reasons for Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the 2016 presidential election. It charts the prolonged campaign and the realigning processes that took place, analysing the ideas that defined the Trump platform, the electoral shifts in states regarded as solid ‘firewalls’...
The Judas kiss
Treason and betrayal in six modern Irish novels
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Argues that modern Irish history encompasses a deep-seated fear of betrayal, and that this fear has been especially prevalent throughout Irish society since the revolutionary period at the outset of the twentieth century.
Haunted historiographies
The rhetoric of ideology in postcolonial Irish fiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The spectres of history haunt Irish fiction. In this compelling study, Matthew Schultz maps these rhetorical hauntings across a wide range of postcolonial Irish novels, and defines the spectre as a non-present presence that simultaneously symbolises and analyses an overlapping of Irish myth and Irish...
Intelligence, security and the Attlee governments, 1945–51
An uneasy relationship?
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
Drawing on recently released documents and private papers, this is the first book-length study to examine the intimate relationship between the Attlee government and Britain's intelligence and security services at the start of the Cold War. Often praised for the formation of the modern-day 'welfare...
Chagos Islanders in Mauritius and the UK
Forced displacement and onward migration
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The Chagos islanders were forcibly uprooted from the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean between 1965 and 1973. This is the first book to compare the experiences of displaced Chagos islanders in Mauritius with the experiences of those Chagossians who have moved to the UK since 2002. It thus provides...
by Edward Ashbee
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The right and the recession considers the ways in which conservative activists, groupings, parties and interests in the US and Britain responded to the financial crisis and the 'Great Recession' that followed in its wake. The book looks at the tensions and stresses between different ideas, interests...
by Myrto Tsakatika
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book addresses the question of political legitimacy in the European Union from the point of view of political responsibility, going beyond current debates that focus on the 'Democratic deficit'.
World Bank Group interactions with environmentalists
Changing international organisation identities
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book shows how environmentalists have shaped the world’s largest multilateral development lender, investment financier and political risk insurer to take up sustainable development.
The extreme Right in Western Europe
Success or failure?
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Parties of the extreme Right have experienced a dramatic rise in electoral support in many countries in Western Europe over the last two and a half decades. This phenomenon has been far from uniform, however, and the considerable attention that the more successful Right-wing extremist parties have...
From Partition to Brexit
The Irish Government and Northern Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
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.
The diplomacy of decolonisation
America, Britain and the United Nations during the Congo crisis 1960-1964
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
The book reinterprets the role of the UN during the Congo crisis from 1960 to 1964, presenting a multidimensional view of the organisation. Through an examination of the Anglo-American relationship, the book reveals how the UN helped position this event as a lightning rod in debates about how decolonisation...
Anglo–German relations during the Labour governments 1964–70
NATO strategy, détente and European integration
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Speaking at West Point in 1962, Dean Acheson observed that Britain had lost an empire and had still to find a new role. This book explains why, in the following years, as Britain’s Labour government contemplated withdrawal from east of Suez, ministers came to see that Britain’s future role would...