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Book 2021

The Northern Ireland peace process

From armed conflict to Brexit

Eamonn O'Kane

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A re-evaluation of the Northern Ireland peace process, which offers the fullest account available of the quest to bring an end to Europe’s longest running modern conflict.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526116635
ISBN:: 9781526116635
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2021

Migration diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa

Power, mobility, and the state

Gerasimos Tsourapas

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The first major examination of the interplay between migration and foreign policy in the Middle East, this study analyses the ways through which key Arab and non-Arab states instrumentalised cross-border mobility from the mid-1950s until today. Migration diplomacy paints a complex picture of how migrants, refugees and diasporas have been subject to power politics considerations across the Global South.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526132109
ISBN:: 9781526132109
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Cultural Theory
Subject:: General Cultural Theory
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2021

Dreams of disconnection

From the autonomous house to self-sufficient territories

Fanny Lopez

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This book offers a history of energy autonomy and small infrastructures in the field of architecture and urbanism from the end of the 19th century to the present day.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526146908
ISBN:: 9781526146908
Subject:: Geosciences
Subject:: Geography
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2021

The wolves are coming back

The politics of fear in Eastern Germany

Rebecca Pates, Julia Leser

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The wolves are coming back moves beyond stereotypic representations of East Germany, and shines light on the complexities of post-socialist life and losses. It seeks to explain the extraordinary success of new far right parties in a vivid ethnographic recounting of the local politics of fear, hope and national identity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526150233
ISBN:: 9781526150233
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Political Science
Subject:: Political Science, other
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2021

Uncertain citizenship

Life in the waiting room

Anne-Marie Fortier

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This book investigates uncertainty as a governing practice from the unique vantage point of ‘citizenisation’ - twenty-first-century integration and naturalisation measures that make and unmake citizens and migrants, while indefinitely holding many applicants for citizenship in the waiting room of citizenship.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526139092
ISBN:: 9781526139092
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Sociology of Migration
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2021

Remaking the urban

Heritage and transformation in Nelson Mandela Bay

Naomi Roux

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This book examines the intersections between post-apartheid urban transformation and the politics of heritage-making in divided cities, using the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro in South Africa’s Eastern Cape as a case study. This author examines how the twin processes of memory-making and change have played out in Nelson Mandela Bay.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526140296
ISBN:: 9781526140296
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Africa
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2021

Surrealist women's writing

A critical exploration

Anna Watz

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Featuring essays by leading scholars of surrealism, this book offers the first sustained critical inquiry into the multifaceted writing of women associated with surrealism, and highlights howthis oeuvre intersects with and contributes to contemporary debates on gender, sexuality, subjectivity, otherness, anthropocentrism, and the environment.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526132031
ISBN:: 9781526132031
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2021

Cowboy Hamlets and zombie Romeos

Shakespeare in genre film

Kinga Földváry

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The book focuses on the interpretation of Shakespeare film adaptations in commercial film genres, from the classical Hollywood era to contemporary blockbuster cinema. Its genre-based analyses revisit old favourites and rediscover long-forgotten treasures of film history, taking adaptation studies in a new direction.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526142108
ISBN:: 9781526142108
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2021

Rethinking settlement and integration

Migrants' anchoring in an age of insecurity

Aleksandra Grzymala-Kazlowska

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This monograph argues that concepts well-established in migration studies such as ‘settlement’ and ‘integration’ do not sufficiently capture the features of adaptation and settling of contemporary migrants. The author highlights practical implications to better support individuals facing changes and challenges in new, complex and fluid societies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526136848
ISBN:: 9781526136848
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Sociology of Migration
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2021

Serial Shakespeare

An infinite variety of appropriations in American TV drama

Elisabeth Bronfen

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This book explores Shakespeare’s presence in the American cultural imaginary at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It traces how his texts are disseminated and reassembled in contemporary TV shows such as The Wire, Deadwood, Westworld, House of Cards and The Americans.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526142320
ISBN:: 9781526142320
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

The subject of Britain, 1603–25

Christopher Ivic

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This book reinterprets early seventeenth-century texts by situating them within the context of Jacobean writing on Britain and Britishness. Central to its argument are ideas about nationhood, identity and community that were occasioned by the accession of a Scottish king to England's throne, contested during the Anglo-Scottish Union debates.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526152701
ISBN:: 9781526152701
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

Civilised by beasts

Animals and urban change in nineteenth-century Dublin

Juliana Adelman

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This book offers a unique account of life in nineteenth-century Dublin, told through human-animal relationships. It argues that the exploitation of animals formed a key component of urban change, from municipal reform to class formation to the expansion of public health and policing.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526146069
ISBN:: 9781526146069
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book Open Access 2020

Refugees and the violence of welfare bureaucracies in Northern Europe

Dalia Abdelhady, Nina Gren, Martin Joormann

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This book underscores the centrality of refugees to the workings of current dynamics of social and cultural membership in the welfare state. The contributions look into the meaning of the welfare state, as represented in legal and discursive practices, and the imagination of those seeking to build new lives in it.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526146847
ISBN:: 9781526146847
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Political Science
Subject:: Political Science, other
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

Neoliberalism and neo-jihadism

Propaganda and finance in Al Qaeda and Islamic State

Imogen Richards

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Neoliberalism and Neo-jihadism investigates the political economy of Al Qaeda and Islamic State. Its examination reveals that while these organisations propagandise on the basis of widespread anti-capitalist sentiments, at the same time they exploit and contribute to the same mechanisms of neoliberal, late modern capitalist finance they condemn.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526143211
ISBN:: 9781526143211
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Political Science
Subject:: Theory
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

Breaking peace

Brexit and Northern Ireland

Feargal Cochrane

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This book argues that Brexit is the most significant event in the political history of Northern Ireland since partition in 1921. It explains why Brexit presents unique challenges for NI and why the border is so significant for the peace process. It argues that Brexit is breaking peace in NI and risking its very existence.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526142566
ISBN:: 9781526142566
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Political Science
Subject:: Foreign Policy
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

The end of the small party?

Change UK and the challenges of parliamentary politics

Louise Thompson

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The first book to uncover how small groups like Change UK/The Independent Group exert influence in the British Parliament, based on first-hand interviews with the MPs themselves.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526153029
ISBN:: 9781526153029
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Political Science
Subject:: Political Science, other
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

The business of birth control

Contraception and commerce in Britain before the sexual revolution

Claire L. Jones

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This volume provides a new commercial perspective on contraception in modern Britain. It examines contraceptives as commodities and demonstrates the significance of the contraceptive industry in shaping sexual knowledge alongside the medical profession, the birth control movement, and the state before the emergence of the contraceptive pill.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526136299
ISBN:: 9781526136299
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Exile History
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

English radicalism in the twentieth century

A distinctive politics?

Richard Taylor

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English radicalism has been a persistent and important, though minority, strand in English political culture since at least the English Civil War. This book explores, in historical context, the nature of this radicalism – its beliefs, practice and importance – in the twentieth century.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526151308
ISBN:: 9781526151308
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Cultural Theory
Subject:: Political Theory
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

Defense of the West

Transatlantic security from Truman to Trump, Second edition

Stanley R. Sloan, Lawrence Freedman

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This book offers a history of a transatlantic security relationship that has endured for over seventy years, examining how developments inside NATO and European Union member states affect their ability to defend against external threats while preserving Western values, in the era of Trump and Brexit.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526152275
ISBN:: 9781526152275
Subject:: History
Subject:: Theories, Methods, and Auxiliary Sciences
Subject:: Auxiliary Sciences of History
Subject:: Diplomatic
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

Ecocide

Kill the corporation before it kills us

David Whyte

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This is the first book to argue comprehensively that unless we destroy the legal and political basis for the corporation, we are unlikely to reverse the decline of the eco-system, and therefore we will hasten the end of the species.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526151063
ISBN:: 9781526151063
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: History of Sociology
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

Power, politics and influence at work

Tony Dundon, Miguel Martinez Lucio, Emma Hughes, Debra Howcroft, Arjan Keizer, Roger Walden

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Argues that the changing world of work cannot be divorced from several overlapping power dynamics that have resonance to wider societal debates: issues of labour market inclusion and exclusion or marginalisation, profit and wealth distribution, political influence and employment regulation, union representation and community solidarity and agency.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526157119
ISBN:: 9781526157119
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Political Science
Subject:: Political Science, other
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

Deporting Black Britons

Portraits of deportation to Jamaica

Luke de Noronha

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Deporting ‘Black Britons’ exposes the relationship between racism, borders and citizenship by telling the painful stories of four men who have been exiled to Jamaica. It examines processes of criminalisation, illegalisation and racialisation as they interact to construct deportable subjects in contemporary Britain and offers new ways of thinking about race and citizenship at different scales.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526155733
ISBN:: 9781526155733
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Anthropology
Subject:: Biological Anthropology
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

Victorian literary culture and ancient Egypt

Eleanor Dobson

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This is the first academic study to address ancient Egypt as it was appropriated across disparate literary modes during the Victorian era. Drawing on texts by canonical authors while illuminating new sources and understudied works, it brings the highbrow and the popular into conversation, addressing contemporary ideas of race, gender and religion.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526141897
ISBN:: 9781526141897
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

Critical race theory and inequality in the labour market

Racial stratification in Ireland

Ebun Joseph

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This book employs critical race theory as a theoretical and analytical framework to unveil how racial stratification shapes the socioeconomic outcomes and racial inequality in the labour market. The pages guide students interested in CRT and investigating racism, discrimination and inequality.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526134400
ISBN:: 9781526134400
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Sociology, other
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

Bad English

Literature, multilingualism, and the politics of language in contemporary Britain

Rachael Gilmour

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Bad English examines the impact of increasing language diversity in transforming contemporary literature in Britain, in the context of its contested language politics. Exploring a range of poetry and prose, it makes the case for literature as the preeminent medium to probe the terms and conditions of linguistic belonging.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526108852
ISBN:: 9781526108852
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

The Spanish quinqui film

Delinquency, sound, sensation

Tom Whittaker

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This is first English-language study of cine quinqui, a cycle of Spanish delinquent-themed films made in the 1970s and 1980s. Exploring how the films reflected the auditory experience of marginal youth cultures during this period, the book casts new light on the criminological, economic and political fault lines of Spain’s transition to democracy.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526131782
ISBN:: 9781526131782
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Genres
Subject:: Genres, other
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

The sword is not enough

Arabs, Israelis, and the limits of military force

Jeremy Pressman

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In this lucid and timely new book Jeremy Pressman demonstrates that the default use of military force on both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict has prevented its peaceful resolution.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526150059
ISBN:: 9781526150059
Subject:: History
Subject:: Theories, Methods, and Auxiliary Sciences
Subject:: Auxiliary Sciences of History
Subject:: Diplomatic
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

The contract of mutual indifference

Political philosophy after the Holocaust

Norman Geras, Oliver Kamm

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Norman Geras discusses a central aspect of the experience of the Holocaust with a view to exploring its most important contemporary implications. Geras’s argument focuses on the figure of the bystander to consider the moral consequences of looking on without active responses at persecution and great suffering.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526104762
ISBN:: 9781526104762
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Political Philosophy and Social Philosophy
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

The modernisation of the Labour Party, 1979–97

Christopher Massey

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This monograph recasts the modernisation of the Labour Party and sheds new light on Labour’s years in the wilderness between 1979 and 1997. The monograph uniquely traces the party’s major organisational changes across its eighteen years of opposition. Labour’s organisational modernisation in this period fundamentally altered the party’s internal structures, policy-making pathways and constitution. The study begins with an investigation into the scene inherited by Labour’s leadership in the early 1980s and examines Neil Kinnock’s quest for a stable majority on the party’s ruling National Executive Committee between 1983 and 1987. From this position the monograph surveys the major organisational changes of the Labour Party in their period of opposition: the Policy Review (1987–92), One Member, One Vote (1992–94), Clause IV (1995–96) and Partnership in Power (1996–97). Through a re-examination of Labour’s modernisation, in the light of new source material and extensive primary interviews, this research significantly contributes to the understanding of the rise of New Labour.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526144430
ISBN:: 9781526144430
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Political Science
Subject:: Political Science, other
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

Displacement

Global conversations on refuge

Silvia Pasquetti, Romola Sanyal

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This book aims to develop global conversations around refuge. Through an interdisciplinary, transnational and historical set of chapters, the authors develop new theoretical frameworks for scholars working on the forced displacement of people around the world, including refugees, stateless persons, internally displaced persons and others.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526123473
ISBN:: 9781526123473
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Social Sciences, other
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

The films of Costa-Gavras

New perspectives

Homer B. Pettey

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This collection provides new perspectives on the work of filmmaker Costa-Gavras. Contributors from a variety of fields examine his studies of human political crises, from the horrors of the Nazis and state totalitarianism to contemporary crises of immigration and global financial collapse.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526146939
ISBN:: 9781526146939
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Genres
Subject:: Genres, other
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

Britain’s rural Muslims

Rethinking integration

Sarah Hackett

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This book exposes the benefits of shifting academic attention away from the major conurbations of Muslim settlement, and reveals how a more rural county with relatively small Muslim populations also has a role to play in wider debates on Britain’s multicultural society.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526110169
ISBN:: 9781526110169
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Sociology, other
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

Memory and the future of Europe

Rupture and integration in the wake of total war

Peter J. Verovšek

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This book examines the role of collective memory in the origins and development of the European Union. It traces Europe’s political, economic and financial crisis to the loss of these memories of the rupture of 1945. In order to survive the EU will have to prove that it can act effectively in the face of future challenges.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526143112
ISBN:: 9781526143112
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Cultural Theory
Subject:: Political Theory
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

Reading

A cultural practice

Vincent Quinn

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Reading: A cultural practice explores the history and theory of reading from the classical period to the present day. It argues that reading is central to human culture and that this will continue to be the case even if digital cultures change the ways in which we interact with written language.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526136954
ISBN:: 9781526136954
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

The power of pragmatism

Knowledge production and social inquiry

Jane Wills, Robert Lake

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Making the case for a pragmatist approach to social inquiry and knowledge production, sixteen contributors illustrate the power of pragmatism to inform democratic, community-centred, action-oriented research.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526134950
ISBN:: 9781526134950
Subject:: Geosciences
Subject:: Geography
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

The road to Brexit

A cultural perspective on British attitudes to Europe

Ina Habermann

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This timely collection of essays explores British attitudes to Continental Europe that explain the Brexit decision. Addressing British-European entanglements and the impact of British Euroscepticism, the book argues that Britain is in denial about the strength of its ties to Europe, and that it needs to face Europe if it is to face the future.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526145093
ISBN:: 9781526145093
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

Islam in British media discourses

Understanding perceptions of Muslims in the news

Laurens de Rooij

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This book describes how non Muslims use the news to inform themselves about Islam and Muslims. It does so by exploring how media institutions function in society and how its practices affect the production of images and symbols about Muslims and Islam, as well as their influence on audiences.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526135230
ISBN:: 9781526135230
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Religion and Politics
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

Constructing cybersecurity

Power, expertise and the internet security industry

Andrew Whiting

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This book provides a critique of dominant cybersecurity knowledge that draws upon original constructivist analysis of the expert discourse within the internet security industry. The book argues that this expertise helps explain the probematic common sense that sees cybersecurity conflated with national security.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526123336
ISBN:: 9781526123336
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Political Science
Subject:: Foreign Policy
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

Frontier narratives

Liminal lives in the early modern Mediterranean

Steven Hutchinson

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This book uses a wide range of sources, factual and fictive, in many languages to examine how slaves and ‘renegades’ developed a frontier consciousness that took into account how the ‘others’ thought and acted, and how Muslims, Christians and Jews developed mutual understanding despite the hostile conditions of the early modern Mediterranean.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526146441
ISBN:: 9781526146441
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

Idols of the Odeons

Post-war British film stardom

Andrew Roberts

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This book provides an extensive overview of the British actors who achieved their greatest stardom during the 1950s. This was a transitional period for the British cinema, when the major studios faced growing competition from television and Hollywood increasingly dominated the UK film industry.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526147042
ISBN:: 9781526147042
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Genres
Subject:: Genres, other
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

How media and conflicts make migrants

Kirsten Forkert, Federico Oliveri, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Janna Graham

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Based on interviews and workshops with refugees in both countries, the book develops the concept of “migrantification” – in which people are made into migrants by the state, the media and members of society.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526138125
ISBN:: 9781526138125
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Sociology of Migration
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

Scotland

The new state of an old nation

Murray Stewart Leith, Duncan Sim

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An academic analysis of the foundations and structures of modern-day Scotland that provides insight into Scottish politics, society and culture.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526127792
ISBN:: 9781526127792
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Political Science
Subject:: Political Science, other
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

Banning them, securing us?

Terrorism, parliament and the ritual of proscription

Lee Jarvis, Tim Legrand

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Jarvis and Legrand explore the banning of terrorist organisations in liberal democratic states such as the United Kingdom. This process, they argue, is far more a ritualized performance of national identity, than it is a meaningful contribution to national security.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526144935
ISBN:: 9781526144935
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Political Science
Subject:: Political Science, other
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book Open Access 2020

The United States in the Indo-Pacific

Obama's legacy and the Trump transition

Oliver Turner, Inderjeet Parmar

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This edited volume examines the legacies former US President Barack Obama leaves across Asia and the Pacific, as well as the endurance of, and prospects for, those legacies two years into the Presidency of Donald Trump.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526135025
ISBN:: 9781526135025
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Political Science
Subject:: Foreign Policy
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

Life history and the Irish migrant experience in post-war England

Myth, memory and emotional adaption

Barry Hazley

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This book makes innovative use of migrant life histories to further understanding the role of memory in the production of migrant identities. Offering a fresh perspective on the post-war Irish experience in England, it develops Popular Memory Theory to illuminate how migrants’ ‘recompose’ the self in response to the emotional challenges migration

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526128010
ISBN:: 9781526128010
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Sociology of Migration
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

Bordering Britain

Law, race and empire

Nadine El-Enany

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(B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial violence and irregular immigration is anti-colonial resistance.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526145437
ISBN:: 9781526145437
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Sociology of Migration
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

In the company of wolves

Werewolves, wolves and wild children

Sam George, Bill Hughes

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This volume of essays presents innovative research from a variety of perspectives on the cultural significance of wolves, children raised by wolves, and werewolves, as portrayed in different media and genres.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526129048
ISBN:: 9781526129048
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

Shakespeare and the supernatural

Victoria Bladen, Yan Brailowsky

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This edited collection of twelve essays from an international range of contemporary Shakespeare scholars explores the supernatural in Shakespeare from a variety of perspectives and approaches.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526109071
ISBN:: 9781526109071
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

Cosmopolitan dystopia

International intervention and the failure of the West

Philip Cunliffe

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Cosmopolitan Dystopia evaluates cosmopolitan liberalism and shows In their effort to avoid the terrible fate of twentieth century utopias, cosmopolitan liberals have nonetheless created a new global dystopia of permanent war and authoritarian power embodied in ‘sovereignty as responsibility’.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526151452
ISBN:: 9781526151452
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Political Science
Subject:: International Relations
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

The Shakespearean comic and tragicomic

French inflections

Richard Hillman

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Richard Hillman’s latest book on the French connections of early modern English drama shows that Shakespeare regularly inflected the models provided by Italian comedy and tragicomedy by evoking French material, dramatic and non-dramatic. Such inflection especially bears on the tragic overtones that menace or complicate comic resolutions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526144089
ISBN:: 9781526144089
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

The Bible onscreen in the new millennium

New heart and new spirit

Wickham Clayton

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With contributions from major scholars such as Mikel J. Koven and Martin Stollery, and a preface by Adele Reinhartz, this collection looks at the new wave of Biblical adaptations from The Passion of the Christ (2004) onwards, taking a range of theoretical positions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526136589
ISBN:: 9781526136589
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Genres
Subject:: Genres, other
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

Arab liberal thought in the modern age

Meir Hatina

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The provides in-depth analysis of Arab liberalism, which, although lacking public appeal and a compelling political underpinning, still sustained viability over time and remained a constant part of the Arab landscape.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526142924
ISBN:: 9781526142924
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Political Science
Subject:: Political Science, other
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

Deirdre Madden

New critical perspectives

Anne Fogarty, Marisol Morales-Ladrón

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This pioneering set of essays explores the key motifs and themes in the works of the Irish novelist, Deirdre Madden, about the Northern Irish Troubles and their aftermath and changing social values in contemporary Ireland.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526118936
ISBN:: 9781526118936
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

A writer's guide to Ancient Rome

Carey Fleiner

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For writers of Roman historical fiction: a basic guide to family life, food & clothing, housing & travel, law & order, economics, religion, and entertainment.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526158673
ISBN:: 9781526158673
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Phonetics
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

Secularism, Islam and public intellectuals in contemporary France

Nadia Kiwan

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This book examines the thought of Abdennour Bidar, MalekChebel, Leïla Babès, 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.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526144270
ISBN:: 9781526144270
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Cultural Theory
Subject:: General Cultural Theory
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

Transnational connections in early modern theatre

M. A. Katritzky, Pavel Drábek

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Pushing the complexities of theatrical connections beyond questions of national boundaries, Transnational connections in early modern theatre studies performance as a connective medium, to engage with the complex encounters, exchanges and interactions among texts, performers and communities, in a time of vastly increasing interchange and mobility.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526139184
ISBN:: 9781526139184
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

Inside Accounts, Volume I

The Irish Government and Peace in Northern Ireland, from Sunningdale to the Good Friday Agreement

Graham Spencer

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Focusing on the peace process, these two volumes includes seventeen interviews from high-ranking civil servants and political leaders in the Irish Government and takes the reader inside the negotiating room to experience the efforts, tensions and actions that led to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526142528
ISBN:: 9781526142528
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Political Science
Subject:: Political Science, other
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

The Pope and the pill

Sex, Catholicism and women in post-war England

David Geiringer

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This book uses original oral history material and secretive Vatican papers to explore the sexual and religious experiences of Catholic women in post-war England. It offers a fresh perspective on the idea that ‘sex killed God’, reframing dominant approaches to the histories of sex, religion and social change.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526138392
ISBN:: 9781526138392
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Christianity
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2020

John Wyclif

Selected Latin works in translation

John Wyclif, Stephen Penn

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This new collection of translations represents the first attempt to offer a representative sample of Wyclif’s Latin works in translation in a single volume.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526121837
ISBN:: 9781526121837
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: Western Europe
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2019

City of beasts

How animals shaped Georgian London

Thomas Almeroth-Williams

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This book offers a panoramic view of Georgian London, redefining the city’s role in the industrial, agricultural and consumer revolutions. It does this by examining, for the first time, the huge contribution that horses, cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs made to the world’s first modern metropolis, as well as the serious challenges the animals posed.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526126368
ISBN:: 9781526126368
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: Western Europe
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2018

Working-class writing and publishing in the late twentieth century

Literature, culture and community

Tom Woodin

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From the early 1970s, working class writing and publishing in local communities rapidly proliferated into a national movement. This book is the first full evaluation of these developments and opens up new perspectives on literature, culture, class and identity over the past 50 years.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526108609
ISBN:: 9781526108609
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Exile History
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2018

Japan's new security partnerships

Beyond the security alliance

Wilhelm Vosse, Paul Midford

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This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of Japan’s new security partnerships with Australia, India, countries and multilateral security fora in East Asia, as well as with the EU and some of its member states.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526123138
ISBN:: 9781526123138
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Political Science
Subject:: Political Science, other
Publisher:: Manchester University Press

Book 2018

Nostalgia and the post-war Labour Party

Prisoners of the past

Richard Jobson

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Through a detailed examination of the party’s post-war development, this book outlines how nostalgia has shaped the party’s trajectory. It argues that Labour’s nostalgically-informed identity has determined the extent to which the party has been able to respond effectively to the changing nature of Britain.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526113320
ISBN:: 9781526113320
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Political Science
Subject:: Political Science, other
Publisher:: Manchester University Press