Manchester University Press: 1049 books
Warrior dreams
Playing Scotsmen in mainland Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Why does a Parisian banker re-enact the medieval wars of Wallace and Bruce in his spare time? Why do more than 20,000 people attend the Schotse Weekend bagpipe competition in Bilzen, Flanders? Why does an entire village in the Italian Alps celebrate a lost Scottish regiment? And why is there a Highland...
Shaping the Royal Navy
Technology, authority and naval architecture, c.1830–1906
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The nineteenth-century Royal Navy was transformed from a fleet of sailing wooden walls into a steam powered machine. Britain’s warships were her first line of defence, and their transformation dominated political, engineering and scientific discussions. They were the products of engineering ingenuity,...
by Sruti Bala
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Participation is the utopian sweet dream that has turned into a nightmare in contemporary neoliberal societies. Yet can the participatory ideal be discarded or merely replaced with another term, just because it has become disemboweled into a tool of pacification? The gestures of participatory art...
Exoticisation undressed
Ethnographic nostalgia and authenticity in Emberá clothes
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Exoticisation undressed is an innovative ethnography that makes visible the many layers through which our understandings of indigenous cultures are filtered and their inherent power to distort and refract understanding. The book focuses in detail on the clothing practices of the Emberá in Panama,...
Cultures of governance and peace
A comparison of EU and Indian theoretical and policy approaches
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This volume brings together insights which look at the intersection of governance, culture and conflict resolution in India and the European Union. Two very different but connected epistemic, cultural and institutional settings, which have been divided by distance, colonialism and culture; yet have...
by Geoffrey Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The study of German electoral politics has been neglected of late, despite being one of the most pervasive elements of the German political process. Geoffrey Roberts exciting new book argues that concentration on electoral politics facilitates deeper understanding and appreciation of German political system It provides explanations.
by Bernard Vere
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
This book highlights sport as one of the key inspirations for an international range of modernist artists. Sport emerged as a corollary of the industrial revolution and developed into a prominent facet of modernity as it spread across Europe at the turn of the twentieth century. It was celebrated...
Gender and housing in Soviet Russia
Private life in a public space
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book explores the housing problem throughout the 70 years of Soviet history, looking at changing political ideology on appropriate forms of housing under socialism, successive government policies on housing, and the meaning and experience of ‘home’ for Soviet citizens. Attwood examines the...
Ideal homes, 1918–39
Domestic design and suburban Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Focusing on the house-building boom of the interwar years, when Britain became a nation of homeowners, this book investigates the ways in which ordinary people expressed new class and gender identities through the design, architecture and decoration of their homes.
Travel and the British country house
Cultures, critiques and consumption in the long eighteenth century
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Provides readers with fresh insights into the country house and the ways it was shaped by domestic and foreign travel. It brings famous and less familiar houses to life through the aspirations and acquisitions of owners; the admiring or caustic comments of visitors, and the constant flows of goods, people and ideas.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
The book presents an in-depth and theoretically-grounded analysis of urban gardening practices (re)emerging worldwide as new forms of bottom-up socio-political participation. By complementing the scholarly perspectives through posing real cases, it focuses on how these practices are able to address...
Human remains and mass violence
Methodological approaches
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This book outlines for the first time in a single volume the theoretical and methodological tools for a study of human remains resulting from episodes of mass violence and genocide. Despite the highly innovative and contemporary research into both mass violence and the body, the most significant consequence...
Fashionability
Abraham Moon and the creation of British cloth for the global market
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Fashion studies is a burgeoning field that often highlights the contributions of genius designers and high-profile brands with little reference to what goes on behind the scenes in the supply chain. This book pulls back the curtain on the global fashion system of the past 200 years to examine the...
Sir Robert Filmer (1588–1653) and the patriotic monarch
Patriarchalism in seventeenth-century political thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This book studies the patriarchalist theories of Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) in the context of early modern English and European political cultures. Making use of unexplored primary material and adopting an innovative contextual approach, Cuttica provides a long-overdue account of an often referred-to...