Manchester University Press: 1049 books
Livingstone's 'lives'
A metabiography of a Victorian icon
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
David Livingstone, the 'missionary-explorer', has attracted more commentary than nearly any other Victorian hero. Beginning in the years following his death, he soon became the subject of a major biographical tradition. Yet out of this extensive discourse, no unified image of Livingstone emerges....
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Particular genres are also discussed, including the family saga, travel...
Race and empire
Eugenics in colonial Kenya
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Race and empire tells the story of a short-lived but vehement eugenics movement that emerged among a group of Europeans in Kenya in the 1930s, unleashing a set of writings on racial differences in intelligence more extreme than that emanating from any other British colony in the twentieth century....
China's Peaceful Rise
Perceptions, Policy and Misperceptions
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Can China peacefully attain great power status in the twenty-first century? Adopting a constructivist approach, the book argues that China's prospects for achieving great power status peacefully depend more on Chinese and international perceptions of China's rise/development than on concrete measures...
by Liam Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2017
This book examines the phenomenon of the independent politician, believed to be extinct in most political systems. It is very much alive and well in Ireland, and has experienced a considerable resurgence in recent years. Independents won a record number of seats in 2016 and had three ministers appointed...
The 1989 Revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe
From Communism to Pluralism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This important book reassesses a defining historical, political and ideological moment in contemporary history: the 1989 revolutions in central and eastern Europe. Bringing together established and younger British, European and north American experts from a variety of disciplines, including history,...
by Louis Rawlings
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
The ancient Greeks experienced war in many forms. By land and by sea, they conducted raids, ambushes, battles and sieges; they embarked on campaigns of intimidation, conquest and annihilation; they fought against fellow Greeks and non-Greeks. Drawing on a wealth of literary, epigraphic and archaeological...
High culture and tall chimneys
Art institutions and urban society in Lancashire, 1780-1914
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
This new study examines how nineteenth-century industrial Lancashire became a leading national and international art centre. By the end of the century almost every major town possessed an art gallery, while Lancashire art schools and artists were recognised at home and abroad. The book documents the...
The Crisis of Theory
E. P. Thompson, the New Left and postwar British politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The Crisis of Theory, available in paperback for the first time, tells the story of the political and intellectual adventures of E. P. Thompson, one of Britain's foremost twentieth-century thinkers. Drawing on extraordinary new unpublished documents, Scott Hamilton shows that all of Thompson's work,...
by José Álvarez-Junco
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Spanish identity in the age of nations offers the first comprehensive account in any language of the formation and development of Spanish national identity from ancient times to the present. Much has been written on French, British and German nationalism, but remarkably little has been published on...
Women and the Shaping of British Methodism
Persistent Preachers, 1807-1907
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
A response to the prominent Methodist historian David Hempton's call to analyse women's experience within Methodism, this book is the first to deal with British Methodist women preachers over the entire nineteenth century. The author covers women preachers in Wesley's lifetime, the reason why some...
The Debate on the English Reformation
Second edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Extensively revised and updated, this new edition of The Debate on the English Reformation combines a discussion of successive historical approaches to the English Reformation of the mid-sixteenth-century with a critical review of recent debates in the area, offering a major contribution to modern...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
The Malleus Maleficarum is one of the best-known treatises dealing with the problem of what to do with witches. It was written in 1487 by a Dominican inquisitor, Heinrich Institoris, following his failure to prosecute a number of women for witchcraft, it is in many ways a highly personal document,...
Performing Englishness
Identity and politics in a contemporary folk resurgence
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Performing Englishness looks in detail at the growth in popularity and profile of the English folk arts in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Based on original research within English folk culture, it is the only ethnographic study of its kind. By closely scrutinising various facets of...