Collection: Manchester University Press
-
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Dirtbag dreams
The first book to share the untold story of this unique sport, from its origins in the Victorian era to the present day.Over the past two decades, mountain, ultra and trail running has experienced a massive boom in participation, media attention and corporate consumerism. Once little more than an...
Read MoreRegular price £20.00Sale price £20.00 Regular price £20.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Studies in irish radical leadership
This study deals with key leaders in Irish radical history, both male and female. With the left attracting more support in the 2011 election than ever before and with the centenary of several key events in Irish left wing history upon us, this crucial study takes a historical look at Irish radica...
Read MoreRegular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Working-class organisations and popular tourism, 1840–1970
Examines some of the most important performance in Britain and Northern Ireland from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. In a timely new critical approach, it considers contemporary British theatre in relation to national and supranational identities, concepts such as globalistion and diaspora...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The false one
This is the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of Fletcher and Massinger’s The False One, with an introduction that offers new insights on the date and the theatre of the play’s first performance, freshly examines its sources and explores the theatrical potential of a play that...
Read MoreRegular price £80.00Sale price £80.00 Regular price £80.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The later stuart church, 1660–1714
This book features nine essays written by leading scholars in the field to offer new insights into the place of the Church of England within the volatile Restoration era. Sections on ideas and people include essays covering the royal supremacy, the theology of the later Stuart Church and clerical...
Read MoreRegular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The first and second parts of king edward iv
Edward IV' was one of the most popular plays of the early modern period, making a vital contribution to the genres of both chronicle history and the newly emergent 'domestic' tragedy. It is a work rich with allusions to the political and cultural controversies of its time, and a drama which demo...
Read MoreRegular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £19.99Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Windows for the world
This study focuses on the significance of the displays of stained glass at several international exhibitions held in Britain, France, the USA and Australia between 1851 and 1900. It provides new perspectives for the study of nineteenth-century stained glass, within these temporary secular exhibit...
Read MoreRegular price £30.00Sale price £30.00 Regular price £30.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Aristocratic families in republican france, 1870–1940
A study of the daily life, concerns, and dynamics of aristocratic families in the France of the Third Republic.
Regular price £35.00Sale price £35.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Immersion
Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, Immersion explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and investigates how social belonging is produced and policed
Regular price £30.00Sale price £30.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Aura
A critical edition of Carlos Fuentes' 1962 novel, Aura, accompanied by an introduction and notes on the text.
Regular price £20.00Sale price £20.00 Regular price £20.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The politics of freedom of information
This book explores the implementation of the UK's FOI law under Tony Blair, showing how the radical policy was weakened by compromises and clandestine agreements before reaching the statute book, though it went on to be controversial and disruptive nonetheless.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Doing kyd
Doing Kyd reads Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, the box-office and print success of its time, as the play that established the revenge genre in England and served as a ‘pattern and precedent’ for the golden generation of early modern playwrights.
Regular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £90.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Dust
Dust is a witty and highly original investigation into the development of modern history writing. This book considers how history writing belongs to the currents of thought shaping the modern world, and suggests that, like dust, the 'matter of history' can never go away or be erased.
Regular price £14.99Sale price £14.99 Regular price £14.99Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Troilus and cressida
A history of Shakespeare’s play in performance, from John Dryden’s Restoration adaptation to the rediscovery of the play in the twentieth century.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Indispensable immigrants
Indispensable immigrants recreates the world of peasants who streamed into the cities of late-medieval and early modern northern Italy to carry crushingly heavy containers of wine. Written in an easily accessible and unassuming style, it is solidly grounded in previously untapped archival and vis...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Prisoners of britain
During WWI hundreds of thousands of Germans faced incarceration in hundreds of camps on the British mainland. This is the first book on these German prisoners, and covers 3 different types of internees in Britain: civilians already present in the country in August 1914; civilians brought to Brita...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
An empire of many cultures
Based upon original research and bringing to life the words and actions of Bahá’í, Muslim, and Jewish leaders during the early 20th century, this study sheds light on each found meaning and value in the diversity that characterised the British Empire, enabling the creation of relationships that w...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
From jack tar to union jack
In this pioneering study, Conley examines the intersection between empire, navy, and manhood in British society from 1870 to 1918. Jack Tar to Union Jack is indispensable reading as it reminds us of the navy’s long-standing influence upon British domestic and imperial culture.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Soaking up the rays
Soaking up the rays forges a new path for exploring Britain’s fickle love of the light by investigating the beginnings of light therapy in the country from c. 1890–1940. Despite rapidly becoming a leading treatment for tuberculosis, rickets and other infections and skin diseases, light therapy wa...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The gulf monarchies after the arab spring
This book applies an original theoretical framework to unpack the threat perceptions and strategic calculus driving the behaviour of the Gulf monarchies, which emerged after the Arab Spring as major geopolitical players in the Middle East and North Africa region and as middle powers destined to p...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Working men’s bodies
The first in-depth study of Britain’s many work camp systems.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
James baldwin review
The 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. In addition to these cutting-edge contributions, each issue contains a review of recent Baldwin scholarship and an ...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Beef, bible and bullets
Beef, bible and bullets looks at the social, political and economic trends that brought a maverick right-wing populist to office in Latin America's largest economy.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Race and the yugoslav region
This study argues that, contrary to many assumptions, Yugoslavia and its successor states are deeply embedded in the global history and politics of ‘race’, and that the ambiguities of perceiving ‘race’ in the region’s past and present in fact have complex historical roots.
Regular price £30.00Sale price £30.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Religion, war and israel’s secular millennials
Based on fieldwork, interviews and surveys conducted in the aftermath of the 2014 Gaza War, this book explores what is it like to come of age as a ‘secular’ millennial in Israel after the failure of the Oslo peace process, when Palestinian and Israeli leaders have used ethnicity and religion to d...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
French literature on screen
This collection presents new essays in the complex field of French literary adaptation. Using a variety of textual and interpretive approaches, it sheds light on issues of gender, sexuality, class, politics and social conventions while acknowledging a range of contexts, from the commercial to the...
Read MoreRegular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Rethinking settlement and integration
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 ...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Northern ireland and the crisis of anti-racism
Racism and sectarianism makes a sustained critique of official anti-racism, using the case of Northern Ireland to do so. Many of the prominent themes in the UK today have been central to discussions in Northern Ireland for decades. The book sketches out some elements of an emancipatory anti-racis...
Read MoreRegular price £80.00Sale price £80.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Popular culture and working–class taste in britain, 1930–39
This is a landmark study which examines the film and reading tastes of working-class consumers in 1930s Britain. Drawing on a wealth of original research, Robert James argues that working-class consumers used popular film and fiction to answer a range of cultural and social needs in this tumultuo...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Solvent form
This highly original study examines the destruction of art, both through objects that have been destroyed and as a process within art that the object courts through form. Against this, it maps a tendency wherein individuals attempt to conceptually gather destroyed or lost objects, hoping somehow ...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Art history
Art History: A critical introduction to its methods provides a lively and stimulating introduction to methodological debates within art history. Offering a lucid account of approaches from Hegel to post-colonialism, the book provides a sense of art history’s own history as a discipline from its e...
Read MoreRegular price £16.99Sale price £16.99 Regular price £16.99Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The end of the experiment?
The book argues for a new experiment in social licensing whereby the right to trade in foundational activities would be dependent on the discharge of social obligations in the form of sourcing, training and living wages.
Regular price £14.99Sale price £14.99 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Siblinghood and social relations in georgian england
This book examines the impact siblings had on eighteenth-century English families and society. Using evidence from letters, diaries, probate disputes, court transcripts, prescriptive literature, and portraiture it argues that siblings had to constantly negotiate between prescribed equality and pr...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Materials and medicine
Medicine was transformed in the eighteenth century. Aligning the trajectories of intellectual and material wealth, this book uncovers how medicine acquired a new materialism as well as new materials in the context of global commerce and warfare.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Spanish politics today
Offers an introduction to the main political institutions to students unfamiliar with Spanish Politics.. . For more advanced students, the volume explores policy-making in Spain with reference to wider policy analysis literature.. Offers historical coverage which provides an invaluable context to...
Read MoreRegular price £20.00Sale price £20.00 Regular price £20.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
African security in the twenty-first century
Through the lens of human security their book examines the continent’s most pressing security challenges—from identity conflict and failing states to terrorism, disease, and environmental degradation—and in doing so provides a comprehensive look at the complexities of building peace and stability...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The art of poverty
`The art of poverty` is the first book in English to analyse depictions of beggars in sixteenth-century European art. It develops a striking thesis, arguing that such images largely conformed to two paradoxical, though complimentary, traditions: the one ironising, the other idealising.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Reflections on the marxist theory of history
This book defends the Marxist theory of history through, first, a critique of its empiricist and postmodern critics, second, a practical demonstration of the power of Marxist historical writings, and, third, a survey of the powerful and influential methodological debates between Marxists.
Regular price £80.00Sale price £80.00 Regular price £80.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Interiors of empire
This book examines the cultural impact of colonialism on both colonizer and colonized via analysis of the domestic interiors and public spaces of empire within the Indian Subcontinent, contrasting representations of such spaces within contemporary discourse with analysis of the evidence of actual...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Contesting the state
This book is the first comprehensive survey of the Irish state, its history and evolution, its nature and its role in Ireland's recent economic boom. Containing contributions from some of the leading authorities on the subject, it offers an in-depth analysis of a state widely seen as a model of s...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Representing africa
Representing Africa examines the ways in which British travellers, explorers and artists viewed southern Africa in a period of evolving and expanding British interest in the region.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Stage rights!
Drawing upon previously unseen archival material, this book brings to life the story of the Actresses' Franchise League from 1908-1958, building a picture of this diverse, exciting and innovative organisation that opens up and extends previous scholarship of the suffrage movement, and of politica...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
In time's eye
These essays bring together historical, literary critical and postcolonial approaches to this perennially controversial writer.
Regular price £30.00Sale price £30.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Trash or treasure
Trash or Treasure is a study of the British video nasties, examining the historical circulation of banned films. The book argues that censorship is not just about rules and regulations, but also about the discourses that generate censorship, and the cultural and commercial consequences of a censo...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Catholic police officers in northern ireland
Explores historically the problematic relationship between Catholics and the police in Northern Ireland. Using strong, empirical evidence from the frank, personal stories of Catholic police officers the study questions whether the PSNI is likely to succeed where the RUC failed in delivering polic...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Baroquemania
Baroquemania offers a new account of Italian post-unification visual culture through its entanglement with the Baroque. Interrogating the Baroque’s fraught afterlife in the work of Giorgio de Chirico, Armando Brasini, Lucio Fontana and others, the book reveals its role in crafting a distinctively...
Read MoreRegular price £30.00Sale price £30.00 Regular price £30.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Drug smuggler nation
Drug smuggler nation shows how and why the Netherlands developed into a central hub of international illegal drug trade in the 20th century. The book develops a model of 'criminal anarchy' that is historically, socially, and culturally embedded in Dutch society to explain the failures of the stat...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Anglophobia in fascist italy
Anglophobia in Fascist Italy depicts how the Fascist regime disseminated its particular image of Great Britain, consistent with its own ideological imperatives, and puts to the test effectiveness of this messaging among the Italian people.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Church polity and politics in the british atlantic world, <i>c</i>. 1635–66
This volume explores church polity and its relationship to politics in the British Atlantic world during the mid-seventeenth century. It addresses the conflicts between church and state, the ecclesial factions of episcopalianism, presbyterianism and congregationalism and the effects of these conf...
Read MoreRegular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
From entertainment to citizenship
Drawing on research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, this book provides the first detailed study of how young people in Britain use popular culture to shape and express their political views and values.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Collieries, communities and the miners' strike in scotland, 1984–85
This book analyses the 1984-5 miners’ strike by focusing on its vital Scottish dimensions, especially the role of workplace politics and community mobilisation.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The traumatic surreal
The traumatic surreal is the first major study to examine the leading role Germanophone women artists have played in deploying surrealism to respond to the traumatic events and legacies of the Second World War.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The liberal democrats
A comprehensive and hard-hitting account of the Liberal Democrats’ recent history that asks big questions about the party’s future.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
William shakespeare and john donne
William Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece and John Donne’s Holy Sonnets are read against the background of concepts of the soul during the early modern period. This approach provides new insights into concepts of interiority and performance as well as a new understanding of the soliloquy in both ...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Michael ondaatje
This book provided the first comprehensive account of the Booker Prize-winning poet and novellist, Michael Ondaatje. It also offers a guide to key issues in postcolonial writing and theory.
Regular price £80.00Sale price £80.00 Regular price £80.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Regarding the real
A new take on documentary film that brings into conversation a wide range of well-known filmmakers and visual artists.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Contested identities
This text looks at the identity of English women religious through the lenses of gender, class and ethnicity, offering an insight into women’s religious belief and practice in the nineteenth century in light of the subsequent transformation of English society
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
My voice: peter mittler
Peter's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Peter Mittler was born in Vienna and escaped to England on the Kindertransport. He became an authority in policy and provision for adul...
Read MoreRegular price £13.99Sale price £13.99 Regular price £13.99Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The end of ulster loyalism?
This book explores the dynamics and divisions within paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland since the mid-1970s.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
A history of the royal college of nursing 1916–90
This is the history of one of the largest nursing organizations in the world and one of the largest professional associations of women. The Royal College of Nursing began as a small professional association in 1916. Its work included nurses’ education, professional policy and labour relations. It...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Women, marriage and property in wealthy landed families in ireland, 1750–1850
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.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Second sight
An innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature and its relation to visionary Romanticism through its examination of six late Victorian writers - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater, Vernon Lee, Eugene Lee-Hamilton, Theodore Watts-Dunton and Thomas Hardy.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Neoliberal power and public management reforms
This book examines contemporary public administration reforms seeking to promote accountability, credibility and evidence.It is argued that a particular form of constructivist neoliberalism play a pivotal role in these reforms.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The politics of hunger
Systematically explores what it is conceived as ‘hunger politics’: the articulations of hunger as a tool of protest by poor consumers; its framing as a problem in the making of public policy; and its (elite) political languages and the attendant effects.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Medicalising borders
Foci and vectors of communicable diseases are testing the efficacy of medical control at state borders. By drawing on the interdisciplinary expertise of a network of researchers the book demonstrates that current border security regimes of Western states exhibit a high share of bio-political powe...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Women's writing of the first world war
A fully-rounded anthology of women's writing from World War One containing the known and unknown biographers and fiction writers of the period.. Explores the impact of the war on ideology, gender, genre and society and is a perfect complimentary text to Trudi Tate's Women Men and the Great War.. ...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Independents in irish party democracy
The aim of this book is to explain this anomaly, how and why independents can endure in a democracy that is one of the oldest surviving in Europe and has historically had one of the most stable party systems.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Screening the paris suburbs
This expansive study brings to light a neglected history of suburban Paris as seen and reimagined by French filmmakers before the emergence of the ‘film de banlieue’.
Regular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Thinking towards humanity
How should we respond to the inhumanity that suffused the 20th Century and continues in the present one? Has there been an adequate treatment of this issue by the political left? Questions such as these are treated in this, the first scholarly book to combine academic and blogging approaches to...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Revolutionising politics
In a series of wide-ranging chapters on politics in thought, word and deed, twelve colleagues of the late Mark Kishlansky reconsider the history of the English Revolution, engaging and often challenging Kishlansky's own conclusions.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Florence nightingale
The letters in this volume come from the period in Florence Nightingale's life that brought her lasting fame. The letters, written amid scenes of horror and chaos, to officials, family and friends, express her hopes and fears and the doubts and frustrations of her arduous service.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Cultures of empire
Collects together the best articles by key historians, literary critics, and anthropologists on the cultures of colonialism in the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.. A substantial introduction by the distinguished historian, Professor Catherine Hall, discusses new approach...
Read MoreRegular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Banning them, securing us?
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.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The british monarchy on screen
A rich collection that looks at how the British monarchy has been seen on film and television. It is first comprehensive look at royalty on screen.
Regular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Socialist republic
This book explores how Sheffield City Council set out to renew left-wing politics in 1980s Britain. Drawing on archival research and oral history interviews, it details the struggle to build a broad-based politics that united class and identity politics and demonstrates how social democracy persi...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The cinema of álex de la iglesia
The first book in English about Álex de la Iglesia, critically acclaimed former protégé of Pedro Almodóvar, and one of the highest grossing directors in Spain and Latin America. De la Iglesia’s cinema is representative of a new generation of Spanish and European directors who combine avant-garde...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Time, work and leisure
Explores the major changes in our use of and attitude to time over three centuries. Asks why the 1960s and 1970s expectation that leisure time would increase has failed to come about
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Building a neighborly community
Building a neighborly community examines East Asia’s move toward a more institutionalized community through analysing political and economic interfaces between China, Japan and Southeast Asia in the post-cold war era.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Dancing in the english style
This book illuminates the history of popular dance, one of the most influential and widespread leisure practices in early twentieth-century Britain. It focuses on the relationship between dancing and national identity construction, in a period when Britain participated in increasingly global mark...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Communities and knowledge production in archaeology
This volume investigates the collaborative effort in the creation of knowledge in antiquarianism and archaeology. In eleven case studies ranging from early modern antiquarianism to modern archaeology, various aspects of interaction and dialogue within scholarly communities in Europe and North Ame...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Arguments for a theatre
There is no-one else in theatre who takes this position There is a lack of books on serious theatre theory Written in a particularly accessible form.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Free will
A study of theatre and sovereignty that situates Shakespeare’s plays in the contraflow between two absolutisms of early modern England: the aesthetic and the political
Regular price £80.00Sale price £80.00 Regular price £80.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Thorough surveillance
Traces the genesis of Israeli policies and tactics of population management, surveillance and political control towards the Palestinians
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Democracy, social resources and political power in the european union
'Democracy, social resources and political power in the European Union' develops a structural constructivist theory of the European Union and critically analyses, through French and Finnish empirical cases, the political practices that maintain the Union's 'democratic deficit'.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Heritage and healing in syria and iraq
This book explores what to do with heritage that has been destroyed in conflict in Syria and Iraq. Drawing on research into trauma and trauma recovery, it challenges existing modes of cultural heritage reconstruction and envisages gentler, creative and ethically-driven ways to use heritage for he...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The tamer tamed; or, the woman’s prize
This is the first edition for students and general readers of a pro-woman reply to Shakespeare's 'The Tamer of the Shrew' written in Shakespeare's lifetime . Co-edited by a feminist critic and a distinguished textual scholar, it makes clear why 'The Tamer Tamed' should be restored to the theatric...
Read MoreRegular price £12.99Sale price £12.99 Regular price £12.99Unit price / per











































































































































































