Manchester University Press imprint: 1048 books
Rocks of nation
The imagination of Celtic Cornwall
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Rocks of nation reveals how the imagination of nations and races is grounded in the landscape. In doing so, it makes a striking contribution to theories of nation, offering new insights into how national identity is bound up with materiality. The book provides an in-depth case study of Cornwall and...
by Robert Ormsby
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This book is a study of twenty stage productions, adaptations and screen versions of Shakespeare’s final Roman play. It makes available for the first time sustained discussions of major productions of the play in four languages and five countries, and explores how Shakespeare’s most political...
by Michael Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The second edition of Friedman's stage history of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus adds an examination of twelve major theatrical productions and one film that appeared in the years 1989-2009, identifying four lines of descent in the recent performance history of the play: the stylised, realistic, darkly comic, and political approaches.
Between growth and security
Swedish social democracy from a strong society to a third way
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The notion of social policy as a productive investment and a prerequisite for economic growth became a core feature in the ideology of Swedish social democracy, and a central component of the universalism of the Swedish welfare state. However as the Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP) embarked on...
John McGahern
Authority and vision
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
This unique collection brings together essays by experts from a variety of disciplines, including history, sociology, education, journalism, creative writing and literary criticism, to offer new insights into the writer, his work and his legacy. Featuring a range of distinguished contributors, including...
Visions and ruins
Cultural memory and the untimely Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Visions and ruins explores the production of cultural memory in the Middle Ages and the uses the medieval past has been put to in modernity. Working with texts in Old English, Middle English and Latin, as well as visual and material culture, it traces connections in time, place, language and media...
Sex in the archives
Writing American sexual histories
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
The archive has assumed a new significance in the history of sex, and this book visits a series of such archives, including the Kinsey Institute’s erotic art; gay masturbatory journals in the New York Public Library; the private archive of an amateur pornographer; and one man’s lifetime photographic...
The United States, the Soviet Union and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1948–67
Superpower rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The Arab-Israeli conflict cannot be properly understood without considering the larger context of the Cold War. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Israel's relationships with the United States and the Soviet Union from 1948 to 1967, showing how the fledgling state had to manoeuvre between...
‘Red Ellen’ Wilkinson
Her ideas, movements and world
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Unearthing new evidence to provide a richer understanding of her life, this study, now available in paperback, delves beyond the familiar image of Ellen Wilkinson on the Jarrow Crusade. From a humble background, she ascended to the rank of minister in the 1945 Labour government. Yet she was much more...
by Uriya Shavit, Ofir Winter
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Zionism in Arab discourses presents a ground-breaking study of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Through analyses of hundreds of texts written by Arab Islamists and liberals from the late-nineteenth century to the 'Arab Spring', the book demonstrates that the Zionist enterprise has played a dual function...
Crimes Against Humanity
Birth of a concept
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This is an accessible and informative guide to the evolution of the concept of crimes against humanity- a hugely influential concept which has had a marked impact on modern international politics, law and ethics.
Young lives on the Left
Sixties activism and the liberation of the self
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Examines the coming of age experiences of young men and women who became active in radical left circles in 1960s England.
Domestic life and domestic tragedy in early modern England
The material life of the household
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
In a theatre which self-consciously cultivated its audiences’ imagination, how and what did playgoers ‘see’ on the stage? This book reconstructs one aspect of that imaginative process. It considers a range of printed and documentary evidence - the majority previously unpublished - for the way...
The Korean War in Britain
Citizenship, selfhood and forgetting
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
The Korean War in Britain explores the social and cultural impact of the Korean War (1950–53) on Britain. Coming just five years after the ravages of the Second World War, Korea was a deeply unsettling moment in post-war British history. From allegations about American use of ‘germ’ warfare...