Manchester University Press: 1049 books
by Pat O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This book is a definitive examination of higher education: locating it in a wider neo-liberal context involving the state and the market, with a specific focus on recent higher policy and on the elite group of senior managers in universities. Written in a clear accessible style, it provides an in-depth...
by Deborah Chester
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
There’s more to writing a successful fantasy story than building a unique world or inventing a new type of magic. From the writing of strong, action-packed scenes to the creation of dynamic, multi-dimensional characters, fantasy author Deborah Chester guides novices and intermediate writers through...
Irish women in medicine, c.1880s–1920s
Origins, education and careers
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This book is the first comprehensive history of Irish women in medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It focuses on the debates surrounding women’s admission to Irish medical schools, the geographical and social backgrounds of early women medical students, their educational...
Hard sell
Advertising, affluence and transatlantic relations, c. 1951–69
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Hard sell explores advertising in Britain in the 1950s and 60s through extensive new archival research in Britain and America, combining the study of business practices with analysis of television and press advertisements.
Enlightening enthusiasm
Prophecy and religious experience in early eighteenth-century England
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
In the early modern period, the term ‘enthusiasm’ was a smear word used to discredit the dissenters of the radical Reformation as dangerous religious fanatics. In England, the term gained prominence from the Civil War period and throughout the eighteenth century. Anglican ministers and the proponents...
Royals on tour
Politics, pageantry and colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Royals on tour explores visits by European monarchs and princes to colonies, and by indigenous royals to Europe in the 1800s and early 1900s with case studies of travel by royals from Britain, France, Portugal, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Japan, the Dutch East Indies and French Indochina....
by Alison Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
This is an edited anthology comprising more than seventy poems and songs written in immediate response to Peterloo in 1819. Mainly anonymous, these ballads appears either as broadsides or in the radical press and are collected together for the first time.
by Julie Thorpe
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book is the first major Anglophone study of Austrofascism in over two decades. Introducing new themes, including press politics, minority politics, regionalism, immigration and refugees, it argues for a transnational approach to fascism in Austria.
Modern women on trial
Sexual transgression in the age of the flapper
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Modern women on trial looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918–24. The trials, all with young female defendants, were presented in the media as morality tales, warning of the dangers of sensation-seeking and sexual...
Men on trial
Performing emotion, embodiment and identity in Ireland, 1800–45
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Men on trial explores how the Irish perform ‘the self’ within the early nineteenth-century courtroom and its implications for law, society and nation. Drawing on new methodologies from the history of emotion, as well as theories of performativity and performative space, it emphasises that manliness...
The cult of the Duce
Mussolini and the Italians
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The cult of the Duce is the first book to explore systematically the personality cult of the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. It examines the factors which informed the cult and looks in detail at its many manifestations in the visual arts, architecture, political spectacle and the media. The conviction...
by Joseph Mai
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2017
Intervening at the crossroads of philosophy, politics, and cinema, this book argues that the career of Robert Guédiguian is the result of one of the most original and coherent projects in contemporary French cinema: to make a committed, historically-conscious cinema, in a local space, over a long...
by Martin O'Shaughnessy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Laurent Cantet is of one France's leading contemporary directors. In a series of important films, including Human Resources, Time Out, Heading South, The Class and Foxfire, he takes stock of the modern world from the workplace, through the schoolroom and the oppressive small town to the world of international...
La Parisienne in Cinema
Between art and life
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Chic, sophisticated, seductive, and enigmatic, the Parisienne possesses a je ne sais quoi which makes her difficult to define. Who or what is the Parisienne and how she is depicted in cinema is the subject of this new and exciting book. In the first book-length publication to explore la Parisienne...