Manchester University Press: 1049 books
by Brian Pullan
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Frank and entertaining account of the University of Manchester's struggle to meet the Government’s demands for the rapid expansion of higher education in the 1950s and the 1960s. Looks at the University's ambitious building program: the controversial attempts to reform its constitution and improve...
Jews and other foreigners
Manchester and the rescue of the victims of European Fascism, 1933-40
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Between 1933 and 1940, Manchester accepted almost eight thousand refugees from Fascist Europe. Among these were Jewish academics expelled from universities across Germany, Austria, Spain and Italy. Around two hundred were children from the Basque country, temporarily evacuated to Britain in 1937,...
Postcolonial Manchester
Diaspora space and the devolution of literary culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Postcolonial Manchester offers a radical new perspective on Britain’s devolved literary cultures by focusing on Manchester’s vibrant, multicultural literary scene. Referencing Avtar Brah’s concept of ‘diaspora space’, the authors argue that Manchester is, and always has been, a quintessentially...
The regeneration of east Manchester
A political analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
East Manchester has been the site of one of the most substantial regeneration projects internationally. The initiative in east Manchester confirmed the tag that the city is the ‘regeneration capital’ of the United Kingdom.
While the book focuses on a single project, it has wider relevance...
The Irish in Manchester c.1750-1921
Resistance, adaptation and identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This book examines the development of the Irish community in Manchester, one of the most dynamic cities of nineteenth-century Britain. Based on research into a wide variety of local sources, it examines the process by which the Irish came to be blamed for all the ills of the Industrial Revolution...
Mad Money
with an introduction by Benjamin J. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Mad money is a classic of international relations and international political economy literature. It also has profound modern relevance. First published by Manchester University Press in 1998, the book called for an end to the volatility of international financial markets. Markets had grown, technology...
Culture in Manchester
Institutions and urban change since 1850
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Brings together studies of cultural institutions in Manchester from 1850 to the present day, giving an unprecedented account of the city’s cultural evolution
by R.Y. Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Originally published by Manchester University Press in 1963, this book is now regarded as a classic of international law literature. Jennings examines the major issues relating to the acquisition of territory in a stimulating and elegant manner, providing a sense of the critical relationship between...
Polysituatedness
A poetics of displacement
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This book is concerned with the complexities of defining 'place', of observing and 'seeing' place, and how we might write a poetics of place. From Kathy Acker to indigenous Australian poet Jack Davis, the book touches on other writers and theorists, but in essence is a hands-on 'praxis' book of poetic...
Casino capitalism
with an introduction by Matthew Watson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Originally released by Basil Blackwell in 1986, and then re-released by Manchester University Press in 1998, Casino capitalism is a cutting-edge discussion of international financial markets, the way they behave and the power they wield. It examines money's power for good as well as its terrible disruptive,...
Realising the city
Urban ethnography in Manchester
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
This edited collection explores what happens when a city administration tries to bring their vision for a city into being. It provides ethnographic accounts that complicate the dominant narrative of Manchester’s renaissance.
The age of Obama
The changing place of minorities in British and American society
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Drawing on collaborative research from a distinguished team at Harvard and Manchester universities, The age of Obama asks how two very different societies are responding to the tide of diversity that is being felt around the rich world. Guardian journalist Tom Clark, Robert D. Putnam – best-selling...
People, places and identities
Themes in British social and cultural history, 1700s–1980s
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
This book of essays on British social and cultural history since the eighteenth century draws attention to relatively neglected topics including personal and collective identities, the meanings of place, especially locality, and the significance of cultures of association. Themes range from rural...
Lifelong learning, the arts and community cultural engagement in the contemporary university
International perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Lifelong learning, the arts, and community cultural engagement in the contemporary university maps the work of adult educators, teachers, researchers and graduate students from North America, Europe and Africa who use the arts in their university classroom teaching, their research and in service....