Manchester University Press imprint: 1048 books
The territorial Conservative Party
Devolution and party change in Scotland and Wales
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
How did the territorial Conservative Party adapt to devolution? This detailed analysis of the Scottish and Welsh Conservative Parties explains how they moved from campaigning against devolution to sitting in the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly. Tracing the processes of party change in both...
by Tony Fitzpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Collating a range of social and political theories, this study engages with contemporary debates regarding the present direction and future of the Left. It proposes that the social democratic tradition can be renewed but only if the dominance of conservative ideas is challenged more effectively.
The politics of war reporting
Authority, authenticity and morality
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The politics of war reporting: Authority, authenticity and morality challenges the assumptions that reporters and their audiences have about the way the journalistic trade operates and how it sees the world. It unpacks the taken-for-granted aspects of the lives of war correspondents, exposing the...
Northern Ireland and the European Union
The dynamics of a changing relationship
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This unique study breaks new ground in engaging the study of Northern Ireland politics directly with broader debates about European integration and European governance. The text offers the most comprehensive coverage to date of the institutional development of Northern Ireland following the UK government’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
This edited collection aims to reimagine and extend ethnography for a data-saturated world.
The arc and the machine
Narrative and new media
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The Arc and the machine is a timely and original defence of narrative in an age of information. Stressing interpretation and experience alongside affect and sensation it convincingly argues that narrative is key to contemporary forms of cultural production and to the practice of contemporary life....
British Military Service Tribunals, 1916–18
A very much abused body of men'
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
An analysis of the Military Service Tribunals which considered applications for exemption from men during the First World War, this book illuminates a previously under-researched area of British military and social history.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The introduction of FOI in Ireland was a watershed moment in Irish democracy. It gave citizens a right to know, and abolished eighty years of official secrecy that had existed since the foundation of the State. As the new 2014 FOI Act is extended to the gardaí and the Central Bank for the first time,...
Leaders in conflict
Bush and Rumsfeld in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Beneath the violence of the US war in Iraq was a subterranean conflict between President Bush and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, rooted in their different beliefs and leadership styles. Bush was prepared to pay a high cost in American lives, treasure, and prestige to win. Rumsfeld favoured turning...
Everyday resistance, peacebuilding and state-making
Insights from 'Africa's World War'
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Everyday resistance, peacebuilding and state-making addresses debates on the liberal peace and the policies of peacebuilding through a theoretical and empirical study of resistance in peacebuilding contexts. Examining the case of 'Africa's World War' in the DRC, it locates resistance in the experiences...
by Arthur Gunlicks, Christopher Duggan
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
An illuminating introduction to how the Lander (the sixteen states of Germany) function not only within the country itself but also within the wider context of European political affairs. Looks at the Lnader in the constitutional order of the country, and the political and administrative system. Their...
Death and security
Memory and mortality at the bombsite
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Making a bold intervention into critical security studies literature, this book explores the ontological relationship between mortality and security. It considers the mortality theories of Heidegger and Bauman alongside literature from the sociology of death, before undertaking a comparative exploration...
Migration into art
Transcultural identities and art-making in a globalised world
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
Provides close readings of works by internationally renowned artists, including Rina Banerjee, Yinka Shonibare, Fred Wilson, Pat Ward Williams and Bharti Kher
Governing Europe's spaces
European Union re-imagined
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
What do we imagine when we imagine Europe and the European Union? To what extent is our understanding of the EU – of its development, its policies and its working processes – shaped by unacknowledged assumptions about what Europe really is?
The book constructs a case for re-imagining Europe...