Manchester University Press imprint: 1048 books

by Helen Boak
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015

The first comprehensive survey of women in the Weimar Republic, exploring the diversity and multiplicity of women’s experiences in the economy, politics and society.

German politics today

Second edition

by Geoffrey Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013

This revised and updated edition of German politics today provides students with a comprehensive study of the modern German political system, set in the context of its historical development, including the reunification of Germany and the important developments which have taken place since the formation of the `grand coalition' government in 2005.
by Ali Riaz
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016

The first book-length study to examine identity politics among the Bangladeshi diaspora delves into the micro-level dynamics, the internal and external factors and the role of the state and locates these within the broad framework of Muslim identity and Islamism, citizenship and the future of multiculturalism in Europe.
by Sabine Lee
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017

This book explores the life courses of children born of war in different twentieth-century conflicts, including the Second World War, the Vietnam War, the Bosnian War, the Rwandan Genocide and the LRA conflict. It investigates both governmental and military policies vis-à-vis children born of war...

Honecker's Children

Youth and patriotism in East(ern) Germany, 1979–2002

by Anna Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013

This book examines the shifting identities and state loyalties of young people in East(ern) Germany during a unique period straddling the last decade of the GDR and the first decade of united Germany. It provides insight into the functioning of the GDR state, the process of German unification and the formation of national and regional identities.

Classical Hollywood cinema

Point of view and communication

by James Zborowski
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015

This book offers a new approach to filmic point of view by combining close analyses informed by the tools of narratology and philosophy with concepts derived from communication studies. Each chapter stages a conversation between two masterpieces of classical Hollywood cinema and one critical concept...

Passing into the present

Contemporary American fiction of racial and gender passing

by Sinead Moynihan
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013

This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction. The book accounts for the return of tropes of...

Small states in world politics

The story of small state survival, 1648-2016

by Matthias Maass
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017

What is the story behind the paradoxical survival of small and weak states in a world of great powers and crude power politics? And what explains the dramatic rise and fall in the number of states overtime, following no consistent trend and not showing an immediately obvious direction or pattern?...

The Great Labour Unrest

Rank-and-file movements and political change in the Durham coalfield

by Lewis Mates
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016

The Great Labour Unrest examines the struggle between liberals, socialists and revolutionary syndicalists for control of Britain's best established district miners' union. Drawing widely on a vast and rich body of primary sources, this study reveals the debates that grassroots activists had during...

The Enlightenment and religion

The myths of modernity

by S. Barnett
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013

This publication offers a critical survey of religious change and its causes in 18th-century Europe. Focusing on Enlightenment Italy, France and England, the text illustrates how the canonical view of 18th-century religious change has in reality been constructed upon scant evidence and assumption
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016

Illustrates the complex ways in which biblical women’s narratives could be reimagined for a variety of rhetorical and religious purposes

The politics of old age

Older people's interest organisations and collective action in Ireland

by Martha Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015

situates the discussion of older people's interests in the international context and outlines the findings of an Irish case study

Factories for learning

Making race, class and inequality in the neoliberal academy

by Christy Kulz
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017

Over half of England’s secondary schools are now academies. While their impact on achievement has been debated, the social and cultural outcomes prompted by this neoliberal educational model has received less scrutiny. This book draws on original research based at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated...

The power of citizens and professionals in welfare encounters

The influence of bureaucracy, market and psychology

by Nanna Mik-Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017

This book is about power in welfare encounters. Present-day citizens are no longer the passive clients of the bureaucracy and welfare workers are no longer automatically the powerful party of the encounter. Instead, citizens are expected to engage in active, responsible and coproducing relationships...
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