Manchester University Press: 1049 books
by Douglas Keesey
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The first full-length monograph in English devoted to one of the most acclaimed and controversial directors in contemporary cinema
Hospitals and charity
Religious culture and civic life in medieval northern Italy
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This is the first book in English to provide a comprehensive examination of the hospital movement that arose and prospered in northern Italy between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. Throughout this flourishing urbanised area hundreds of independent semi-religious facilities appeared, offering...
Gas, oil and the Irish state
Understanding the dynamics and conflicts of hydrocarbon management
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Gas and oil are pivotal to the functioning of modern societies, yet the ownership, control, production and consumption of hydrocarbons often provokes intense disputes with serious ramifications. Gas, oil and the Irish state examines the dynamics and conflicts of state hydrocarbon management and provides...
Destruction and human remains
Disposal and concealment in genocide and mass violence
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Destruction and human remains investigates a crucial question frequently neglected in academic debate in the fields of mass violence and genocide studies: what is done to the bodies of the victims after they are killed? In the context of mass violence, death does not constitute the end of the executors'...
Worth saving
Disabled children during the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The first detailed study on the experiences of disabled children during the Second World War.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This book examines the work that nurses of many differing nations undertook during the Crimean War, the Boer War, the Spanish Civil War, both World Wars and the Korean War. It makes an excellent and timely contribution to the growing discipline of nursing wartime work. In its exploration of multiple...
A most diabolical deed'
Infanticide and Irish society, 1850–1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This book examines the phenomenon of infanticide in Ireland from 1850 to 1900, examining a sample of 4,645 individual cases of infant murder, attempted infanticide and concealment of birth. Evidence for this study has been gleaned from a variety of sources, including court documents, coroners’ records,...
US politics today
Fourth edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2019
US politics today not only introduces the defining features of contemporary American politics but also considers the strengths and weaknesses of a system that is now under serious strain.
The book is ideal for students, teaching staff and the general reader. It outlines the ways in which the...
The genesis of international mass migration
The British case, 1750-1900
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
This book argues the modern mass transit of ordinary people derives from common conditions in modernising societies and that they were first manifested in the British Isles.
Addressing the other woman
Textual correspondences in feminist art and writing
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This book analyses how three artists – Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly – worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970s. These artists used text and images of writing to challenge female stereotypes, addressing viewers and asking them to participate in the project...
by Deborah Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Drawing on a range of sources from the papers of landed families this book provides fresh insight into the place of women in the Irish wealthy landed class.
Negotiating nursing
British Army sisters and soldiers in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Negotiating Nursing explores how the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (Q.A.s) salvaged their soldier-patients within the sensitive gender negotiations of what should and could constitute nursing work and where that work could occur. The book argues that the Q.A.s, an entirely female...
Humboldt and the modern German university
An intellectual history
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This book is about the idea of the university in modern Germany. Its primary focus is how the Humboldtian tradition was transformed and how it gave direction to debates around higher education. By combining approaches from intellectual history, conceptual history and the history of knowledge, the...