Collection: Manchester University Press
-
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Visible strangers
A collection of essays on the nature of cultural pluralism in the Mediterranean and the different ways in which this was managed in various cities during the early modern period.
Regular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £90.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The cult of the duce
The cult of the Duce is the first book to explore systematically the personality cult of the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, looking in detail at its many manifestations in the visual arts, architecture, political spectacle and the media, and analyses its controversial resonances in the postwa...
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.
Police control systems in britain, 1775–1975
This book analyses several revolutionary changes in the way that Britain has been policed in the last two hundred years. It shows how management techniques and information systems have been developed to form modern police institutions.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
History and memory
History and memory supplies an accessible and readable introduction to recent work on memory in history and other disciplines, and contributes to debate on the nature and significance of history as an intellectual discipline.
Regular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £19.99Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Islamic charities and islamic humanism in troubled times
This book is the fruit of twenty years' reflection on Islamic charities, both practically and as a key to understand the crisis in contemporary Islam. On the one hand Islam is undervalued as a moral and political force whose admirable qualities are epitomised in its strong tradition of charit...
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.
Austerity baby
Austerity Baby might best be described as an ‘oblique memoir’. Janet Wolff’s fascinating volume is a family history – but one that is digressive and consistently surprising. The central underlying and repeated themes of the book are exile and displacement; lives (and deaths) during the Third Rei...
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.
The role of terrorism in twenty-first-century warfare
A critical reflection on the role of terrorism in major armed conflicts occurring during the 1990s and the first decade of the twenty first century. Case studies include Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria.
Regular price £80.00Sale price £80.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Spectacular performances
Why did Queen Elizabeth I compare herself with her disastrous ancestor Richard II? Why would Ben Jonson transform Queen Anne and her ladies into Amazons as entertainment for the pacifist King James? How do the concepts of costume as high fashion and as self-fashioning, as disguise and as the very...
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.
Affective medievalism
The book argues that the temporal privilege of the medieval masks the extent to which the medieval and medievalistic are mutually constitutive and ultimately dependent not on absolutist epistemological claims but on how feelings and temperaments affect the way we approach the Middle Ages.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Factories for learning
This book draws on research at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated secondary school, to explore how neoliberal education models reproduce raced and classed inequalities.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Sex in the archives
This book is an experiment in writing an American sexual history, spanning the spectrum of queer, trans, and the allegedly ‘normal’. The sexual histories in this book are those where pornography and sexual research are indistinguishable; where personal obsession becomes tomorrow’s archive.
Regular price £80.00Sale price £80.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The humorous magistrate (osborne)
One of two volumes of an early seventeenth century play, showing two distinct versions which both have much to commend them. The only editions of the play in print, it was very popular in the early years of the rule of Charles I. Edited and with an introduction.
Regular price £50.00Sale price £50.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Overwhelmed by overflows?
This book assembles scholars from across the social sciences to explore how people and organisations deal with overflows – of information, goods or choices. It asks whether overflow is understood as abundance or excess, and looks at how it is addressed in different contexts, from sharing economie...
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.
Defeated flesh
Defeated flesh dwells on the French defeat of 1870 and the socialist uprising of the Commune of Paris.. This is one of the first books to develop an in-depth, comparative analysis of the Franco-Prussian war and the Commune.. By looking at the history of the body and medicine it considers how the ...
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.
Three renaissance usury plays
This book provides for the first time modern-spelling, fully annotated editions of three important Elizabeth and Jacobean 'usury plays' - The Three Ladies of London, Englishmen for My Money, The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl. The edition includes an extensive scholarly introduction to the attitudes to...
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.
Shakespeare by mcbean
A play-by-play picture compendium of the world’s greatest dramatist as captured by the world’s greatest theatre photographer
Regular price £35.00Sale price £35.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Religious franks
A unique collection that offers fresh and original perspectives on some of the most important themes in Frankish history
Regular price £35.00Sale price £35.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The left and the european constitution
This book examines how left-wing parties are being affected by European integration. It does so by concentrating on the left-wing responses to the Treaty of Lisbon and the European Constitutional Treaty.
Regular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Anthony munday and civic culture
This in-depth study of the important but neglected writer Anthony Munday fills a long-standing gap in our knowledge and understanding of London and its culture in the early modern period. It will be of interest to historians, literary scholars and cultural geographers.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Edward and george herbert in the european republic of letters
The Anglo-Welsh aristocrats George Herbert (1593–1633) and Edward Herbert (1583–1648) are striking examples of an early European republic of letters. This volume argues that in their lives and works, a cosmopolitanism born of warfare and strife imagined a radical communion and openness.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Women, dowries and agency
Examines labouring-status women in late medieval Valencia as they negotiated the fundamentally defining experience of their lives: marriage
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Pan–germanism and the austrofascist state, 1933–38
This book is the first major Anglophone study of Austrofascism in over two decades. Introducing new themes, including press politics, minority politics, regionalism, immigration and refugees, it argues for a transnational approach to fascism in Austria.
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 family of love
The Family of Love is a rumbustious citizen comedy. Delivering farcical twists on familiar dramatic situations, it offers a glimpse of spiritual freedom in paraperopandemical times.
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 face of medicine
Sheds new light on the relevance of the visual in medical and scientific cultures, and on the relationship between artistic and medical practices and imagery.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Manchester unspun
An enthralling tale of modern Manchester, told by a writer and journalist who has spent four decades reporting on the movers and the shakers of this unique city, from council leader Sir Richard Leese to Sir Alex Ferguson and Tony Wilson.
Regular price £12.99Sale price £12.99 Regular price £12.99Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Making the british empire, 1660–1800
This book is based on the latest research, and involves stimulating new ideas from some of the most important scholars working in the field of imperial history. It ranges across politics, religion, economy, law and geography in order to offer challenging perspectives on the nature and origins of ...
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.
Ending british rule in africa
On the eve of World War II, a small, impoverished group of Africans and West Indians in London dared to imagine the unimaginable: the end of British rule in Africa. In books, pamphlets, and periodicals, they launched an anti-colonial campaign that used publishing as a pathway to liberation. West ...
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.
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. This edition brings together all of the articles published in this year's volume.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Material masculinities
This book explores men’s material culture and consumer behaviour in the rapid social and economic transformations of eighteenth-century England, arguing that men came to rely on their possessions to make sense of their identities during such significant historical changes.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Lukácsian film theory and cinema
Students and lecturers in film studies
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Civilised by beasts
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.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Transcultural things and the spectre of orientalism in early modern poland-lithuania
Is it possible for foreign things to be perceived as local? Transcultural things sets out to examine this seeming paradox, focusing on artefacts from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Democratic passions
This book takes a fresh look at British radicalism in the first-half of the nineteenth century from the new perspective of the history of emotions. It changes the way in which we look not only at popular radicalism but also at the affective qualities of politics itself in modern Britain and beyond.
Regular price £81.00Sale price £81.00 Regular price £81.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The end of the irish poor law?
Analyses the attempted reform of the Poor Law system in Ireland between 1910 and 1932. This period represented one of the most formative and crucial eras in Irish politics and society with the ideas of culture, nation, state and identity widely contested.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Reformation without end
Reformation without end conceives of eighteenth-century English history as a late chapter in the nation’s long Reformation. Contemporaries thought that the Reformation had caused two bloody seventeenth-century English revolutions.
Regular price £30.00Sale price £30.00 Regular price £30.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Emigration from scotland between the wars
Emigration from Scotland has always been very high. However, emigration from Scotland between the wars surpassed all records; more people emigrated than were born, leading to an overall population decline. Why was it so many people left?Marjory Harper, whose knowledge is grounded in a deep unders...
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.
Crank it up
Jason Statham is Britain’s most important post-millennial male film star. This book examines his work throughout a career encompassing film, television, music videos, multi-media platforms and video gaming.
Regular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Joseph losey
The career of Wisconsin-born Joseph Losey spanned over four decades and several countries, from . collaborator with Bertholt Brecht, director of Hollywood B-pictures and victim of McCarthyism, to director of seminal British films such as "Time Without Pity," "Eve," "The Servant," and "The Go-Betw...
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.
Making home
Explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
History, historians and development policy
Leading historians and policy advisors explore the implications of incorporating historical sensibilities into key development policy issues.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Unfolding the south
"Unfolding the South" presents a new vision of Anglo-Italian cultural relations in the late Romantic and Victorian periods.
Regular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Intertextuality in modern arabic literature since 1967
This volume of essays is the first to be dedicated to the subject of intertextuality in modern Arabic literature. Beginning with a general overview of the topic by Roger Allen, it brings together essays on a range of writers from all parts of the Arab world, including, among others, Edwar al-Khar...
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.
Debating civilisations
Debating civilisations offers an up-to-date evaluation of the re-emerging field of civilisational analysis, tracing its main currents and comparing it to rival paradigms such as Marxism, globalisation theory and postcolonial sociology.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Mutinous memories
The French mutinies of 1919 stretched from the Soviet Union through to France’s naval ports. It is the first study to try to understand the subjective world of the mutineers.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Pulp fictions of medieval england
Pulp Fictions of Medieval England demonstrates that popular romance not only merits and rewards serious critical attention, but that we ignore it to the detriment of our understanding of the complex and conflicted world of medieval England.
Regular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Debating tudor policy in sixteenth-century ireland
This book provides the first systematic analysis of the whole range of treatises written on the ‘reform’ of Ireland in Tudor times. By assessing approximately six-hundred extant treatises it demonstrates how the Tudors viewed Ireland and how they arrived at the policies which they chose to implem...
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.
Theatre under the nazis
This is the first book to appear in English about theatre from the entire Nazi period (1933–45)
Regular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £19.99Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Nudge, nudge, think, think
This book builds on the 'nudge' idea proposed by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, proposing an alternative 'think' strategy that calls on citizens to decide their own priorities as part of a process of civic and democratic renewal. It sets out the different approaches in theory and presents a se...
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.
Beginning film studies
The perfect one-stop-shop for anyone starting film studies.
Regular price £14.99Sale price £14.99 Regular price £14.99Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Britain in fragments
Britain today is falling apart, with Brexit's break from the European Union, looming Scottish independence, deepening inequalities and reinvigorated racism. How has it come to this? Britain in fragments traces how the historic pillars of democracy have begun to crumble, from their apex in the pos...
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.
Reading david foster wallace between philosophy and literature
This collection aims to show that David Foster Wallace’s work originates from and functions in the space between philosophy and literature. New essays by prominent and promising Wallace scholars explore the many ways these two discursive modes serve as intertwined ways of experiencing and express...
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.
Beslan
This book is the first, sustained close reading of Russian-language online media accounts of the 2004 Beslan school siege, now seen as a vital turning point in Russia’s approach to terrorism and in the Putin/Medvedev presidencies.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Shakespeare’s histories and counter-histories
Shakespeare's history plays have always been pivotal to our understanding of his works and their relationship to their political and cultural context. This collection renews attention to these crucial plays by exploring official and unofficial versions of the past, histories and counter-histories.
Regular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Schools and the politics of religion and diversity in the republic of ireland
Offers an in-depth analysis of the historical, political and ideological backdrop to the denominational education system in the Republic of Ireland
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Rhetoric and the writing of history, 400–1500
Rhetoric and the writing of history provides an analytical overview of the vast range of historiography which was produced in western Europe between c.400 and c.1500 and argues that its sophistication and complexity provides a much-needed perspective on more modern debates over the relationship b...
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.
A theory of the super soldier
Super soldiers are about to become the new actors in the battlefields of tomorrow. Armed with science fiction-esque equipment and drugs, they are about to make comic book and Hollywood superheroes a reality.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Poetry for historians
What is the point of poetry for historians? The answer lies in this new 'history of history', which looks at the question through the prism of W. H. Auden’s Cold War history poems and of poetry and history education from the eighteenth century to the present day.
Regular price £30.00Sale price £30.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Housewives and citizens
This book explores the contribution that five conservative, voluntary and popular women’s organisations made to women’s lives and to the campaign for women’s rights throughout the period 1928–64.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The early modern english sonnet
This volume updates current assumptions about the early modern English sonnet and its reception and inclusion in poetic collections. It deals both with major (Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser) and minor (Harvey, Barnes) sonneteers, and includes the first modern edition of a 1603 printed miscellany, T...
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.
Drafting the irish free state constitution
This book provides an account of the drafting of the Irish Free Constitution of 1922, analysing the document in its historical context and exploring the reasons for its lack of success
Regular price £80.00Sale price £80.00 Regular price £80.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Diaspora as translation and decolonisation
This book proposes a new way of conceptualising diaspora by examining how diasporas do translation and decolonisation. It provides conceptual tools for investigating diasporas and their interventions and considers diaspora as ‘the global south in the global north’, as well as providing a case stu...
Read MoreRegular price £81.00Sale price £81.00 Regular price £81.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Sugar rush
Sugar rush argues that despite its revolutionary claims, the contemporary attack on sugar represents a politics of despair, entrenching rather than disrupting the inequality-riddled status quo.
Regular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £19.99Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Beckett and nothing
The volume explores the paradoxes at the core of Beckett’s poetics through the notion of ‘nothing’, analysed in its many incarnations in Beckett’s prose works, plays, TV plays and adaptations.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Power and the people
A comparative study of early post-1945 Central Europe on both sides of the Iron Curtain which puts the people back into Cold War history
Regular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Surface tensions
The sixteen essays in this collection explore the surface as a site where complex forces meet, thorugh a wide range of subjects including avante garde fashion, the faking of antiques, postmodern architecture and design, and film costume. The book provides insights into the whole lifecycle of obje...
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.
Philip roth
This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading alongside a number of his contemporaries and focusing particularly on his later fiction, this book offers a highly accessible, informative and persuasive view of Roth as an intellectually adv...
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.
Counter-terrorism and civil society
This book examines the intersection between national and international counter-terrorism policies and civil society in national and regional contexts in the post-9/11 era. It serves as a critical discussion accounting for the experiences of civil society in the enforcement of global security meas...
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.
Political issues in the world today
This book provides a comprehensive account of the most salient political issues in world politics and explains their significance in a way that is accessible to students and non-specialists alike. The end of the Cold War led to a widespread feeling of relief and talk of a new world order. Optimis...
Read MoreRegular price £14.99Sale price £14.99 Regular price £14.99Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Roosevelt's peacetime administrations, 1933–41
A study of Roosevelt's New Deal, examining the debates and controversies that surrounded its implementation and practice, uncovering the meanings, flaws and outcomes of US domestic policy from the Depression to the outbreak of the Second World War. includes fascinating source material from Govern...
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.
The jew of malta
Thorough annotation and commentary. Emphasis on the political, historical and religious allusions in the play. Presented in a clear and lucid form.
Regular price £14.99Sale price £14.99 Regular price £14.99Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Hammer and beyond
The second edition of Peter Hutchings’s landmark work on British horror cinema, featuring later writings by Hutchings and a new introduction by film historian Johnny Walker.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Interweaving myths in shakespeare and his contemporaries
This volume considers classical mythology in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The eleven essays approach tropes and figures from multiple perspectives: genre, gender, translation, classical reception and history.
Regular price £30.00Sale price £30.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Shaping a global women's agenda
Shaping a global women’s agenda documents the crucial and central role of women’s international organisations played at the League of Nations and at the United Nations as the NGOs interjected concerns for women’s and human rights into the global governance system.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Politics personified
The first study of the role of commercial imagery in nineteenth-century politics, Politics personified shows how visual images projected a favourable public image of politics and politicians. Drawing on a vast and diverse range of sources, this book highlights how and why politics was visualised.
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 gentleman's mistress
This book explores continuities in the extra-marital relationships of the gentry and nobility in the north of England. A major contribution to debates on sex and marriage, family, kinship and gender, it challenges assumptions about the impact of Protestantism and other changes to elite culture.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
In/security in colombia
A fascinating and comprehensive analysis of the official security discourse in Colombia, this book investigates discursive and material practices that write the identities of state, self and others.
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 silent morning
The first book to study the cultural impact of the Armistice of 11 November 1918
Regular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
My voice: ruth lachs
Ruth'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. Ruth Lachs began life in Hamburg in 1936 and went on to live in Manchester and work in healthcare.
Regular price £11.99Sale price £11.99 Regular price £11.99Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Remembering refugees
At a time of growing refugee crises across the modern world, this is the first book that examines how Britain remembers its past refugees, from the Huguenots through to the many groups who came in the twentieth century. It looks at how that memory has shaped treatment of contemporary asylum seekers.
Regular price £80.00Sale price £80.00 Regular price £80.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The paddington prophet
First full length academic work to situate the theology of Richard Brothers into its larger political and cultural context.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Gesta romanorum
This is the most complete translation ever attempted of these moral tales, and will be a valuable source text for all scholars and students of medieval literature.
Regular price £35.00Sale price £35.00 Regular price £35.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
European art and the wider world 1350–1550
Focuses on issues of assimilation, translation and misunderstanding as art objects moved between cultures, either literally or imaginatively, and considers how visual culture expresses the increasing contact between Europe and the rest of the world in this 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.
Modern french visual theory
Offers approachable, clear and original accounts of French thinkers who specialise in visual theory, with connections explained and explicated between chapters; looks at those thinkers who have been neglected in the Anglo-American world thereby expanding and diversifying the perception that reade...
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.
Gothic forms of feminine fictions
Gothic forms of feminine fictions is a study of the powers of the Gothic in late twentieth-century fiction and film. Susanne Becker argues that the Gothic, two hundred years after it emerged, exhibits renewed vitality in our media age with its obsession for stimulation and excitement.
Regular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £19.99Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Protest and the politics of space and place, 1789–1848
An accessible and innovative analysis of how political groups used and contested spaces and places in protest. It uses a wide range of interesting sources, from Home Office correspondence to local magistrates, diaries and autobiographies, local newspapers, together with spatial analysis of sites ...
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.
Framing
This cutting-edge book draws on the latest ideas from economics and evolutionary theory to provide a toolkit for understanding how issues are framed in the media, built around the key elements of texture, temperature, position and size.
Regular price £20.00Sale price £20.00 Regular price £20.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
High culture and tall chimneys
This study follows the development of Lancashire’s unique network of art institutions throughout the nineteenth century, exploring the motivations of the artists, patrons, politicians and philanthropists involved.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Network neutrality
This book explains net neutrality battles in Europe, the United States and in developing countries such as India. He explains its history, engineering, policy challenge, legislation and regulation, dividing it into its negative/'lite' and positive/'heavy' elements: Specialized Services for video ...
Read MoreRegular price £24.99Sale price £24.99 Regular price £24.99Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Relics, dreams, voyages
This book presents a wide-ranging and original meditation on cartographies of connection in all the arts of the baroque period.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per

















































































































































































