Manchester University Press: 1049 books
Beyond devolution and decentralisation
Building regional capacity in Wales and Brittany
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Beyond devolution and decentralisation compares the politics, policies and polity building dynamics of devolution in Wales and decentralisation in the French region of Brittany. It develops a general frmaework for understanding regional capacity building.
The English System
Quarantine, immigration and the making of a Port Sanitary zone
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The English System is a history of port health and immigration at a critical moment of transformation at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. During the later nineteenth century, British public health officials transformed the medieval quarantine system into a novel ‘English...
Humanitarian intervention in the long nineteenth century
Setting the precedent
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
A comprehensive presentation of humanitarian intervention in theory and practice during the course of the nineteenth century.
by Kerry Longhurst
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Mobilising the concept of strategic culture, this study develops a sophisticated and innovative framework to understand developments in German security policy between 1990 and 2003. Germany's contemporary security policies are characterised by a peculiar mix of continuity and change.
Destigmatising mental illness?
Professional politics and public education in Britain, 1870–1970
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This historical study of mental healthcare workers’ efforts to educate the public challenges the supposition that public prejudice generates the stigma of mental illness. Drawing on extensive archival research, this book argues that psychiatrists, nurses and social workers generated representations...
Asymmetric engagement
The Community and Voluntary Pillar in Irish social partnership
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This book focuses on one of the most innovative aspects of Irish social partnership, the Community and Voluntary Pillar. It is the most thorough account of the dynamics of the Pillar to date and tackles the weaknesses in existing perspectives. Through the lens of asymmetric engagement, Larragy captures...
Governing the dead
Sovereignty and the politics of dead bodies
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
In most of the world, the transition from life to death is a time of intense presence of states and other forms of authority. Focusing on the relationship between bodies and sovereignty, Governing the dead explores how, by whom and with what effects dead bodies are governed in conflict and non-conflict...
Curatopia
Museums and the future of curatorship
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
What is the future of curatorship? Is there a vision for an ideal model, a curatopia, whether in the form of a utopia or dystopia? Or is there a plurality of approaches, amounting to a curatorial heterotopia? This pioneering volume addresses these questions by considering the current state of curatorship....
Housewives and citizens
Domesticity and the women’s movement in England, 1928–64
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This book explores the contribution that five conservative, voluntary and popular women’s organisations made to women’s lives and to the campaign for women’s rights throughout the period 1928–64. The book challenges existing histories of the women’s movement that suggest the movement went...
US politics today
Third edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
The third edition of US politics today provides a concise, up-to-date and accessible introduction to US government and politics. It offers a survey of core institutions such as the Presidency, Congress and the US Supreme Court, assesses the electoral system and considers the part played by organised...
by Cathryn Spence
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
This text provides the first full-length consideration of women’s economic roles in early modern Scottish towns. Drawing on tens of thousands of cases entered into burgh court litigation between 1560 and 1640 in Edinburgh, Dundee, Haddington and Linlithgow, Women, credit and debt explores how Scottish...
A matter of intelligence
MI5 and the surveillance of anti–Nazi refugees, 1933–50
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Details the surveillance by the British security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain fleeing political persecution in Germany and Austria
The synthetic proposition
Conceptualism and the political referent in contemporary art
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The synthetic proposition examines the impact of Civil Rights, Black Power, the student, feminist and sexual-liberty movements on conceptualism and its legacies in the United States between the late 1960s and the 1990s. It focuses on the turn to political reference in practices originally concerned...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Spanning a period which stretches from the 19th century to the present day, this book takes a novel look at the British labour movement by examining the interaction between trade unions, the Labour Party, other parties and groups of the Left, and the wider working class, to highlight the dialectic...