Böcker utgivna av Manchester University Press

The dome of thought is an accessible and lively history of the Victorian pseudoscience of phrenology. It makes extensive use of the popular accounts found in contemporary newspapers and journals, the majority of this material being reproduced for the first time since the nineteenth century. -- .

Marilynne Robinson features 16 new and exciting essays on the noted American author, the historical settings of her novels, and the contemporary themes of her fiction and nonfiction. -- .

This volume brings together a diverse selection of the latest academic research in the field of naval history. It is the first publication to capture a new form of naval history that engages with race, sexuality, gender, material culture, popular culture and fine art. -- .

A state-of-the-art consideration of the European Union¿s crisis response mechanisms based on comparative fieldwork in a number of cases.

This book is a study of the Irish parliament as an administrative and legal institution. It is particularly interested in how parliament dispatched the business put before it, how its various parts interacted and how this colonial institution engaged with other elements of the administrative machinery both inside and outside the kingdom. -- .

This book explores how theories of embodiment, the gesture, hysteria and subjectivity can deepen our understanding of New York abstract painting. Providing readings of paintings by Krasner and examining images of Pollock and Frankenthaler at work, it builds a bridge between the New York artist-women and their other, Marilyn Monroe. -- .

This book shows how the foundational economy - public services, infrastructure, education and health care - was built up between 1880 and 1980 so that they were collectively paid for, collectively delivered and collectively consumed. This system of provision has been undermined in the age of privatisation and outsourcing. -- .

Democracy on demand is a most comprehensive analysis of the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of referendums and the challenges to modern democracy. It shows how democracy is vulnerable, and how it can be saved from demagogues. -- .

Engine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the omnibus - a horse-drawn urban conveyance. The book introduces the omnibus as a key vector for understanding the intersection of urban and literary modernity in France. -- .

Ten years after it was initiated, this book provides the definitive account of the 'age of austerity' - from high politics to everyday life - and how it is permanently altering British society. It shows how scarcity in the name of national survival is intensifying social conflict over who gets what, when, and how - which stokes impulses to protect the nation and its people. -- .

This book explores the Arab Uprisings and the instability that engulfed the region in the following years. It argues that to understand the events of the uprisings we must look at relations between rulers and ruled along with the strategies used by regimes to exert sovereign power. -- .

Art + archive examines how and why the archive became a hot topic in the artworld at the turn of the twenty-first century. The book connects the artworld's interest in archival terminology to a number of broader historical, technological, academic and philosophical contexts. -- .

After many years of relentless efforts to make a breakthrough in Irish politics, Sinn Fein's strategy eventually paid off in the February 2020 general election. This book examines the challenges that this all-Ireland, radical left and former Provisional IRA associate being in government poses to Irish politics. -- .

The second edition of Peter Hutchings's landmark work on British horror cinema, featuring later writings by Hutchings and a new introduction by film historian Johnny Walker. -- .

This latest edition of a prestigious and venerable series surveys the build up to the tumultuous 2019 General Election and its immediate aftermath, offering reasoned conjecture about the future of British party politics and democracy. -- .

This book reinterprets the history of German-Israeli relations by examining the policies that East and West Germany implemented towards Israel in the early Cold War from an innovative and multinational angle. -- .

James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. This edition brings together all of the articles published in this year's volume. -- .

This timely volume offers a critical analysis of the regional and international relations of the Horn of Africa and Red Sea, focussing on the role of states from the Persian Gulf in these developments. -- .

This study provides the first exclusive analysis of disabled First World War veterans who returned to Ireland. With a case study of mental illness, it foregrounds how the treatment and experiences of disabled communities in past societies is shaped by the existing socio-economic, cultural and political context. -- .

The unimagined community presents a wide-ranging study of South Vietnemese culture, from political philosophy and psychological warfare to popular culture and film. The book pursues the provocative claim that in its early phase the conflict was not an anti-communist crusade, but a struggle between two different forms of anticolonial communism. -- .

Through the narrations of war-injured individuals and MSF humanitarian workers, the book explores healing and rehabilitation process in all its complex forms: physically, emotionally and symbolically. -- .

This book examines the thought of Abdennour Bidar, MalekChebel, Leila Babes, AbdelwahabMeddeb and Dounia Bouzar. In doing so it investigates how these five figures allcontribute in their diverse and varying ways to broader understandings of therelationship between Islam and secularism in contemporary French society. -- .

This book explores early modern British responses to nose reconstruction, and the concerns and possibilities raised by rumoured nose transplants. -- .

Looking at the royal rituals around the death of Louis XV and the accession of Louis XVI, this book sheds new light on the politics and culture of the period, offering original perspectives on court culture, the transition of power, the recall of the Paris parlement and the first year of Louis XVI's reign, including his coronation in June 1775. -- .

Women Art Workers provides a new social and cultural history of the Arts and Crafts movement which offers unprecedented insight into how women constructed alternative, creative lifestyles and disseminated the ethos of the social importance of the Arts and Crafts across new local, national, and international spheres of influence. -- .

Leading experts in Anglophone humanitarianism across some three hundred examine the relationship between humanitarianism, empire, postcolonialism, transnational and global human rights in and beyond the British World. -- .

Colonial anthropology, creative practice and migrant ethnography combine in Paul Carter's Translations to produce a remarkably intimate and forthright autoethnography. -- .