Manchester University Press: 1049 books
‘Insubordinate Irish‘
Travellers in the text
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book traces a number of common themes relating to the representation of Irish Travellers in Irish popular tradition and how these themes have impacted on Ireland’s collective imagination. A particular focus of the book is on the exploration of the Traveller as “Other”, an "Other" who is...
After 1851
The material and visual cultures of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Echoing Joseph Paxton's question at the close of the Great Exhibition, 'What is to become of the Crystal Palace?', this interdisciplinary essay collection argues that there is considerable potential in studying this unique architectural and art-historical document after 1851, when it was rebuilt in...
Conrad's Marlow
Narrative and death in 'Youth', Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim and Chance
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Variously described as ‘the average pilgrim’, a ‘wanderer’, and ‘a Buddha preaching in European clothes’, Charlie Marlow is the voice behind Joseph Conrad’s ‘Youth’ (1898), Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900) and Chance (1912). Conrad’s Marlow offers a comprehensive account...
by Christopher Lloyd
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Despite his controversial reputation and international notoriety as a film-maker, no full-length study of Clouzot has ever been published in English. This book offers a significant revaluation of Clouzot’s achievement, situating his life and work in the wider context of French cinema and society, and providing detailed analysis of his major films.
by Susan Johns
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The first major work on noblewomen in the twelfth century and Normandy, and of the ways in which they exercised power. Offers an important reconceptualisation of women’s role in aristocratic society and suggests new ways of looking at lordship and the ruling elite in the high middle ages. Considers...
Critical theory and epistemology
The politics of modern thought and science
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
This volume in the Critical Theory and Contemporary Society series explores the arguments between critical theory and epistemology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Focusing on the first and second generations of critical theorists and Luhmann’s systems theory, the book examines how each...
Reforming food in post-Famine Ireland
Medicine, science and improvement, 1845–1922
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Reforming food in post-famine Ireland: Medicine, science and improvement, 1845–1922 is the first dedicated study of how and why Irish eating habits dramatically transformed between the famine and independence. It also investigates the simultaneous reshaping of Irish food production after the famine....
A history of the Greek resistance in the Second World War
The people’s armies
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
A history of the Greek resistance in the Second World War discusses one of the most troubled and fascinating aspects of modern Greek and European history: the anti-axis resistance. It is a pioneering history of the men and women who waged the struggle against the axis as members of the armed partisans...
The radicalism of ethnomethodology
An assessment of sources and principles
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
This book offers a well-informed and timely appraisal of the rationale for ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. It examines some of the influences that have shaped work of this kind, and its relationship to mainstream social science.
In the wake of the great rebellion
Republicanism, agrarianism and banditry in Ireland after 1798
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
On Monday 19 September 1803, the most significant trial in the history of Ireland took place in Dublin. At the dock stood a twenty-five year old former Trinity College student and doctor’s son. His name was Robert Emmet and he was standing trial for heading a rebellion on 23 July 1803. The iconic...
Time and world politics
Thinking the present
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book offers the first authoratitive guide to, and critical evaluation of, assumptions about time in theories of world politics. It develops a new way of making sense of the 'present' times of world politics.
The secret vice
Masturbation in Victorian fiction and medical culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The secret vice: Masturbation in Victorian fiction and medical culture provides a unique consideration of writings on self-abuse in the long nineteenth century. The book examines the discourse on masturbation in medical works by English, Continental and American practitioners and demonstrates the...
by
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2017
This volumebrings together academics and judges to consider ideas and arguments flowing from the often complex relationships between law and politics, adjudication and policy-making, and the judicial and political branches of government.
Contributors explore numerous themes, including the nature...
by
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
As poet, critic, theorist and teacher, Charles Olson extended the possibilities of modern writing. From Call Me Ishmael, his pioneering study of Herman Melville, to his epic poetic project The Maximus Poems, Olson probed the relation between language, space and community. Writing in the aftermath...