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Bulletin of the john rylands library 99/1
This issue of the Bulletin is devoted to the Aldine edition of the Ancient Greek epistolographers. It explores the edition from three perspectives: its relationship to medieval epistolary collections, its relationship to later printed editions and its value for modern scholars studying Ancient Gr...
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An archaeology of lunacy
This is a materially focused exploration of the first wave of public asylum building in Britain and Ireland. Examining architecture and material culture, it proposes that the familiar asylum archetype, usually attributed to the Victorians, was in fact developed much earlier.
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Heresy and inquisition in france, 1200–1300
Exposes the inner workings of inquisitions in medieval France through expert translations of primary sources.
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Sustainable art communities
A major international collaboration between artists, art historians, curators and policy makers, this collection shows how visual art can play a crucial role in forging a more sustainable community for the Caribbean and its diaspora.
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Pockets of resistance
The most detailed, sophisticated and theoretically grounded analysis of wartime media coverage written to date. Describes and explains how British news media variously supported, and dissented from, coalition propaganda campaigns during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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The fall and rise of the english upper class
Charting the decline and recent resurgence of the landed gentry in British public life, The fall and rise of the English upper class explores how traditionalist worldviews, centred on kinship, inheritance, and the image of the house, have come to shape our politics and culture.
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The challenge of defending britain
A concise explanation of all the elements that make up current British defence policy as it goes through a major transition to confront the technological and political challenges Britain faces in the coming decade.
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Teens and territory in 'post-conflict' belfast
This is an account of the attitudes and experiences of teenagers growing up in segregated localities in Belfast, it shows how they make sense of, and negotiate everyday life in a divided city. It explores how identities are created, performed, maintained, reinforced, crossed and transformed thro...
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Tragic encounters and ordinary ethics
For over four decades, events in Palestine-Israel have provoked raging conflicts within British universities around issues of free speech, 'extremism', antisemitism and Islamophobia. But why is this conflict so significant for student activists living at such a geographical distance from the regi...
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Health, disease and society in europe, 1500–1800
Health, disease and society in Europe 1500-1800 considers how the body was viewed by the medical profession from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, and challenges established ideas in the field of medical history. It examines the provision of medical care in context and how it was shaped by th...
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Bellies, bowels and entrails in the eighteenth century
This collection of essays addresses the belly and the bowels as key elements in our understanding of eighteenth-century mentalities, emotions, and perceptions of the self.
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Art and knowledge after 1900
This book explores the relationship between art and various disciplines of knowledge from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day.
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Screen plays
Screen plays is a ground-breaking volume thatchronicles the rich and surprising history of stage plays produced for the small screen between 1930 and today. The collection makes a compelling case for the centrality of the theatre to the past and present of British television drama.
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The red cross movement
This book offers new and exciting scholarship on the history of the Red Cross Movement by leading historians in the field. It re-imagines and re-evaluates the Red Cross as an institutional network and a key actor in the humanitarian space through two centuries of war and peace.
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Contemporary british poetry and the city
Though poets have always written about cities, the commonest critical categories (pastoral poetry, nature poetry, Romantic poetry, Georgian poetry, etc.) have usually stressed the rural, so that poetry can seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban populati. Explores a range of contemporary poets w...
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The united nations democracy agenda
A critical, conceptual-historical analysis of democracy at the United Nations, detailed in four ‘visions’ of democracy: civilization, elections, governance and developmental democracy.
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Culture is bad for you
The book demonstrates that cultural jobs are the preserve of the most privileged, a ‘creative class’ in society, and always have been: there was no golden age for social mobility in culture. It shows how women, people of colour, and those of working class origins are missing from key parts of the...
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Republican passions
Republican passions provides an innovative perspective on the founding of the French Third Republic. Based on the archives of Léon Laurent-Pichat, journalist, Deputy and Life Senator, it demonstrates the crucial role of family and friendship networks in the republican movement during the Second E...
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Childhood in question
Childhood in Question explores the historical development, from the 1600s to the 1960s, of childhood experience, drawing on artifacts as diverse as state papers, legal records, diaries, letters and oral sources.
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Riches of the rylands
Riches of the Rylands explores and celebrates the outstanding Special Collections of The University of Manchester Library. These collections of rare books, manuscripts, archives, maps and visual materials are extraordinarily rich and diverse. They span 5,000 years and six continents, and include ...
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All fools
In this edition, an extensive introduction and commentary show how Chapman combines the literary and theatrical traditions of ancient Rome with everyday life in his own time to fashion a sparkling and innovative comedy that will delight audiences today as much as it did those of 1599.
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The machine and the ghost
Explores society’s relationship with the spectral and the paranormal, read through our interaction with technology
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Science and society in southern africa
This collection, dealing with case studies drawn from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Mauritius, examines the relationship between scientific claims and practices, and the exercise of colonial power. It challenges conventional views that portray science as a detached mode of reasoning wit...
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Connecting centre and locality
This collection examines political communication in early modern Britain. Leading historians of the period scrutinise relations between centre and locality and how the state interacted with its citizens. They place communication at the heart of both political and social history to provide an impe...
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Marcel carné
This volume in the French Film Directors series has been long-awaited by students and academics of French and European cinema in particular and by Film Studies students in general.
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Britain's chief rabbis and the religious character of anglo–jewry, 1880–1970
A radical new interpretation of Britain's Chief Rabbis from Nathan Adler to Immanuel Jakobovits, and the impact they had on Anglo-Jewry.
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Disability and the victorians
Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments, illustrates how these influenced the interventions they introduced to support such people and considers the legacies they left behind by their actions and perspectives. A range of impairments a...
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Making work more equal
A tribute to the highly influential contributions of Jill Rubery, this book proposes a ‘new labour market segmentation approach’ for the investigation of issues of job quality, employment inequalities and precarious work.
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Transitional justice in process
Transitional justice in process is the first book that comprehensively studies the Tunisian transitional justice process, covering its initiation, design, and performance. The book makes an essential contribution to literature on the domestic and international politics of transitional justice.
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Mancunians
Mancunians: Where do we start, where do I begin? is the authentic account of Manchester at the turn of the Millennium, told through a mixture of memoir and interviews with well-known local figures from music and sports.
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The business of birth control
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 b...
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Security in a greater europe
This book examines the security agendas of the European Union, the UK, France, Germany and Russia in connection with three defining events in international security - the crisis in Kosovo of 1999, the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the Iraq crisis of 2003 - in order to assess the potential for all...
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Abba abba: by anthony burgess
Anthony Burgess’s ‘hybrid’ novel has been out of print in the UK for almost twenty years. Paul Howard’s new edition restores the original text and demystifies Burgess’s engagement with his Italian and English sources.
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The poems of elizabeth siddal in context
Every Siddal poem is close read alongside works by Rossetti, Swinburne, Ruskin, Tennyson and Keats and with reference to prevailing cultural, political and religious contexts to give the most comprehensive analysis yet of this enigmatic, previously undervalued poetic voice.
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Living displacement
Focusing on two cases of resettlement in rural Cundinamarca, Colombia, this book examines how displaced campesinos make sense of their displacement and how displacement shapes their everyday lives
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Experimental british television
The first academic study to focus on experimental British television. Uncovers the history of experimental television, bringing back forgotten programmes and places the aesthetics of experimentation within historical contexts. The book also examines the importance of the changing technologies on ...
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International law in europe, 700–1200
Was there international law in the Middle Ages? This book examines the extent to which such a system of rules was known and followed in the period 700 to 1200. Taking treaties as its main source, it challenges traditional interpretations of the history of international law and how it functioned i...
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The gentlewoman's remembrance
A highly original and detailed study of an individual single woman in early modern England, based on a recently discovered spiritual autobiography authored by a never-married gentlewoman, Elizabeth Isham. Provides new perspective on women's writing, identity and status in the early modern period.
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Toleration, power and the right to justification
This volume introduces Rainer Forst's critical theory of toleration, offering a development of his major work Toleration in Conflict with critical engagement from a range of outstanding interlocutors, including Chandran Kukathas, Melissa S. Williams and Patchen Markell.
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Anti-colonial research praxis
This book centres the perspectives of First Nations and majority-world researchers and provides insightful descriptions of anti-colonial research praxis from around the world. By engaging with the diverse examples, reflections, and methodological knowledge in this collection, readers will change ...
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Cormac mccarthy
Cormac McCarthy: A complexity theory of literature offers the first sustained analysis of complexity science in McCarthy's literary works. McCarthy's fiction makes a significant case study demonstrating how literature can help us imagine and grapple with complex systems and crises, from global ec...
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Destruction and human remains
Investigates what is done to the bodies of the victims after they are killed
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Shakespeare and spenser
Innovative approach and study of Spenser's literature. Original ideas and perspectives methodolodgy when studying Spenser. Will appeal to wide market of Renaissance students.
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Ida lupino
This book delivers a critical study of British-born Ida Lupino as both a constructed star image and an underappreciated filmmaker who worked across independent and mainstream cinema during Hollywood’s classical era.
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Gendered transactions
Explores Indian gender issues through diverse sources including letters, memoirs, fiction, housekeeping manuals, and forgotten texts from the colonial archives.
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The new politics of russia
This book offers a crash course in contemporary Russian politics. An updated version of the bestselling 2016 edition, it explores the decline in western relations since the early 2000s, from the disagreements over European security and the war in Syria right up to the invasion of Ukraine.
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The duchess of malfi
More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchesss of Malfi is here presented in an accessible and thoroughly up-to-date edition. Based on the often reprinted Revels Plays Edition of 1964, the notes have been augmented to cast further light on Webster'...
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International organisations, non-state actors, and the formation of customary international law
This collection of essays provides the most comprehensive study of the theory and practice of the contribution of international organisations and non-state actors to the formation of customary international law. The book offers new practical and theoretical perspectives on one of the most complex...
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Cinemas and cinemagoing in wartime britain, 1939–45
In this groundbreaking book, Richard Farmer provides a social and cultural history of cinemas and cinemagoing in Britain between 1939 and 1945, and explores the impact that the war had on the places in which British people watched films.
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People, places and identities
A timely and original collection of essays on identity, place and culture of association, that captures the cultural meanings of British political and civic life from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.
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Behind enemy lines
Behind Enemy Lines draws on personal testimonies, official records and film to explore the experiences of male and female clandestine agents who were recruited and trained by a British organisation and infiltrated into Nazi-Occupied France to encourage sabotage and subversion during the Second Wo...
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An ethnography of english football fans
Ethnographic account of English football fans who travel home and away following their team, based on sixteen years' participant observation
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Rigged
Most people find it hard to define 'the economy' beyond saying it is 'to do with money'. Through ethnographic research in a city on the South coast of England, this book explores what 'the economy' means to people's lives and what goes through their minds when they hear politicians talking about it.
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Global warming policy in japan and britain
This is the first book to attempt a systematic comparative analysis of Japanese and British climate policy. It also provides a conceptual roadmap for further cross-national studies on sustainable development/climate policy.
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A history of the ulster unionist party
This is the first scholarly history of the development of the Ulster Unionist Party. It is essential reading for an understanding of the importance of this party to the process of finding a political settlement to Northern Ireland
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Home front heroism
Home front heroism explores how civilians were framed as heroic during the Second World War. Through a focus on London, this book explores how the effects and demands of conflict created increased opportunities for heroics, and created a need for heroism to be acknowledged, awarded and celebrated.
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The tide of democracy
This study of British shipbuilding in its heyday brings together original discussions of the organization of production, the relationship between leaders and members of the industry’s key trade union, and the involvement of that union in wider labour politics.
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The boundary commissions
A standard reference work on re-drawing the map of constituencies in the UK which provides the only detailed insight into how that task is currently undertaken.
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Writing local history
This book describes the development of local history in England from its origins in the Middle Ages to its practise in the early twenty-first century. It looks also at how local history is related to archaeology, landscape, and family history.
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Patient voices in britain, 1840–1948
This edited collection repositions the patient experience at the centre of healthcare histories and considers the contributions that such histories can make to debates over health policy and service delivery.
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The french empire at war, 1940–1945
The French empire at war draws on original research in France and Britain to investigate the history of the divided French empire – the Vichy and the Free French empires – during the Second World War.What emerges is a fascinating story. While it is clear that both the Vichy and Free French coloni...
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Donors, technical assistance and public administration in kosovo
This book looks beyond the apparently united and generally self-congratulatory statements of The United Nations, other major multinational organisations and many large bilateral aid donors to examine what actually happened when they tried to work together in restoring stability and establishing g...
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Loud and proud
This book is an ethnographic study of grassroots activists in the English Defence League. Setting the findings within contemporary debates on race and racism, Islamophobia, social movements and the far right.
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Reimagining north african immigration
An interdisciplinary collection of essays examining the depiction of immigration from North Africa in contemporary French culture.
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The new bauman reader
This book presents a wide range of important, lively and engaging readings, aiming to capture the originality of Bauman's special way of doing sociology and all the complexity of his core ideas, in a way that connects with twenty-first century minds.
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Reframing remembrance
Reframing remembrance is an investigation into French cinema’s representation of the Second World War. Focusing on films released between 1995 and 2015, it argues that Jacques Chirac’s 1995 Vél’ d’Hiv speech heralded a generational shift in WWII commemoration in French cinematic storytelling.
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Critical theory and legal autopoiesis
The first English-language collection of the work of one of Europe's top legal sociologists, introducing his influential theories of societal constitutionalism and legal autopoiesis.
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Chronicles of the investiture contest
The first English translation of Frutolf of Michelsberg's Chronicle, one of the most significant chronicles of the Middle Ages.
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Anti-racist scholar-activism
This book focuses on anti-racist scholar-activism in the margins of universities in the United Kingdom. The book raises questions about the future of Higher Education in the UK, and shines a spotlight on those academics who are working within, and often against, their institutions.
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Watching game of thrones
How did audiences across the world engage with the blockbuster TV series Game of Thrones? This book presents the findings of a major research project that gathered the responses of more than 10,000 people. Its findings challenge many conventional approaches and open up new ways of thinking about...
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Marie duval
Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval 1847–1890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century, focusing on new types of cultural work by women and establishing Duval as a unique b...
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Contemporary issues and debates in eu policy
An exploration of the European Union with sections on conflict, intelligence and security, immigration and human rights, world economic development and environmental sustainability, high technologies and their growing impact.
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Female fortune
A new edition of Jill Liddington’s classic work on Anne Lister's extraordinary diaries, which inspired Gentleman Jack
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Bankruptcy, bubbles and bailouts
This book argues that it is the Treasury, more than any other institution, public or private, which is responsible for socio-economic disparities in the UK, as well as the Brexit paralysis.
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Chagos islanders in mauritius and the uk
This is the first book to compare the experiences of displaced Chagos islanders in Mauritius with the experiences of those Chagossians who have moved to the UK since 2002. It provides a unique ethnographic comparative study of forced displacement and onward migration within the living memory of o...
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The jacobites
This book is a comprehensive survey of the Jacobite movement, from its violent counter-revolutionary origins to its bitter conclusion. Written to be easily accessible, it takes into account the latest research and is designed to provide an easy introduction to the field.
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Shinners, dissos and dissenters: irish republican media activism since the good friday agreement
This book provides a compelling picture of Irish republican activist media outlets like newspapers, magazines and Internet journals and the role that they played ideologically during the tumultuous years that followed the end of the 30-year civil war that was the Troubles and signing of the Good ...
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Witness onstage
Witness Onstage is a detailed study of the remarkable growth of documentary theatre forms in Russian since the early 2000s. It draws on the author’s work as a performer, producer, and researcher of documentary theatre both in Russia and internationally to provide new perspective on the mechanics ...
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Gender and the liberal democrats
Explores why the Liberal Democrats continue to overwhelmingly return male MPs to Westminster.
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Cross-border intimacies
Cross-border intimacies draws on over a decade of frontline research to explore the lives of Chinese migrants who move to Taiwan for marriage. It highlights the complex interplay between emotional and affective processes in shaping marriage migration between China and Taiwan.
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Migrating borders and moving times
Offers a sustained and systematic focus on the intersections of time and space in contexts of border crossing, considering the historical transformations of borders over time and the way 'border time' is shaped by and shapes the borders.
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From votes to seats
The British electoral system treats parties disproportionately and differentially. This original study of the fourteen general elections held between 1950 and 1997 shows that the amount of bias in those election results increased substantially over the period, benefiting Labour at the expense of ...
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The american civil rights movement
Covering the whole twentieth century, this work collects in a single, brief volume, documents reflecting key aspects of the Civil Rights Movement: the voices of social activists (and opponents), the legal struggle in the courts, and governmental responses to civil rights issues, arranged chronolo...
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Healing the nation
This study of caregiving during WW I looks anew at life behind the lines for ordinary British soldiers who served on the Western front. Using a variety of literary, artistic, and architectural evidence, Dr Reznick shows that Britain’s ‘generation of 1914’ was a group bound as much by comradeship ...
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Governance as social and political communication
This book looks at the development of governance analysis in new conceptions of political and democratic communication.
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Money in the medieval english economy 973–1489
The importance of money as one of the key variables in the workings of the medieval economy is often overlooked. This new study first provides the reader with a background to the problems of modelling the medieval economy and the value of the Fisher equation of exchange to monetary historians, to...
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Garden cities and colonial planning
A study of European planning ideas in the form of garden city concepts and practices in their broadest sense, and the ways these were transmitted, diffused and diverted in various colonial territories and situations
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Women on the renaissance stage
Reassesses women's relationship to performance in early modern England.
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Gender and housing in soviet russia
This book explores the housing problem throughout the seventy years of Soviet history. It looks 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.
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Democracy in scandinavia
This book breaks new ground in challenging the established status of the Scandinavian countries as consensual democracies
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