Manchester University Press imprint: 1048 books
Innovation by demand
An interdisciplinary approach to the study of demand and its role in innovation
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The structure and regulation of consumption and demand has recently become of great interest to sociologists and economists alike, and at the same time there is growing interest in trying to understand the patterns and drivers of technological innovation. This book, newly available in paperback, brings...
by Wing-Chung Ho
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
This book aims to explore the lived experience of workers suffering from occupational diseases in contemporary China through a corpus of qualitative, ethnographic data solicited from about one hundred peasant-workers.
Salvage ethnography in the financial sector
The path to economic crisis in Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This book is based on ethnographic research from 2001-2, during Bank of Scotland's first year of merger with Halifax to form HBOS. The research is revisited from the present perspective in the wake of the global banking and financial crisis that undermined HBOS in 2008. This historical perspective...
Corporate and white-collar crime in Ireland
A new architecture of regulatory enforcement
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This book explores the emergence of a new architecture of corporate enforcement in Ireland. It is demonstrated that the State has transitioned from one contradictory model of corporate enforcement to another. Traditionally, the State invoked its most powerful weapon of state censure, the criminal...
The African presence
Representations of Africa in the construction of Britishness
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This book considers the ways that representations of Africa have contributed to the changing nature of British national identity. Using interviews, photo archives, media coverage, advertisements, and web material, the book focuses on major Africa campaigns: the abolition of slavery, anti-apartheid,...
Unstable universalities
Poststructuralism and radical politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Unstable universalities, available for the first time in paperback, examines the theme of universality and its place in radical political theory. Saul Newman argues that both Marxist politics of class struggle and the postmodern politics of difference have reached their historical and political limits,...
by Mike Huggins
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
A detailed consideration of the history of racing in British culture and society and an exploration of the cultural world of racing during the inter-war years. It shows how racing's pleasures were enjoyed even by the supposedly respectable middle classes
by Marcel Stoetzler
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Beginning classical social theory introduces students and educated general readers to thirteen key social theorists by way of examining a single, exemplary text by each author, ranging from Comte to Adorno. It answers the need for a book that helps students develop the skill to critically read theory....
by Jonathan Benthall
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
This book is the fruit of twenty years' reflection on Islamic charities, both practically and as a key to understand the crisis in contemporary Islam. On the one hand Islam is undervalued as a moral and political force whose admirable qualities are epitomised in its strong tradition of charitable...
The UK financial system
Theory and practice, fifth edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Throughout the world the nature and regulation of financial systems have changed dramatically following the global financial crisis. This book introduces the necessary theory and a range of relevant statistics to supplement the narrative. Coverage includes a critique of the UK financial institutions...
The routes to exile
France and the Spanish Civil War refugees, 1939–2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
As they trudged over the Pyrenees, the Spanish republicans became one of the most iconoclastic groups of refugees to have sought refuge in twentieth-century France. This book explores the array of opportunities, constraints, choices and motivations that characterised their lives. Using a wide range...
Negotiating sovereignty and human rights
International society and the International Criminal Court
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Negotiating sovereignty and human rights takes the transatlantic conflict over the International Criminal Court as a lens for an enquiry into the normative foundations of international society. The author shows how the way in which actors refer to core norms of the international society such as sovereignty...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
In providing a counterweight to the notion that political violence has irrevocably changed in a globalised world, Violence and the state offers an original and innovative way in which to understand political violence across a range of discipline areas. It explores the complex relationship between...
Human rights and humanitarian diplomacy
Negotiating for human rights protection and humanitarian access
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Human rights and humanitarian diplomacy provides an up to date and accessible overview of the field, and serves as a practical guide to those seeking to engage in human rights work. Pease argues that while human rights are internationally recognised, important disagreements exist on definition, priority...