Books published by Manchester University Press

Explores Robespierre's vision and the events held across France on this day, which he declared a national day of celebration to inaugurate the state religion of the new French Republic, the Cult of the Supreme Being. It redefines the importance of the Festival in the development of the Revolution. -- .

No solution demonstrates the naivety of claims that a solution to the Northern Ireland conflict could have been imposed by the British state two decades before the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. While there is a tremendous volume of material written on the Northern Ireland conflict, areas remain where there is a poverty of understanding. -- .

An insightful study of the master filmmaker's work, enriched by unprecedented access to the director himself. -- .

Drawing on a range of popular Gothic and Victorian novels, poems and short stories, this book provides the first full length study of representations of death and dying in Gothic texts between 1740 and 1914. -- .

Provides a collection of in-depth readings of British writers that have come to prominence in the twenty-first century. -- .

Critical analysis of the importance and influence of Elizabethan biblical typology on Spenser and the composition of the Faerie Queene. -- .

This book examines one hundred years of historical debate on the English peasantry in the later Middle Ages, exploring the influences and changes to peasantry society, economy and culture. -- .

A comparative study of memorialisation and reconstruction in post-terrorist bomb sites, which argues that security practices are fundamentally connected to death anxiety. -- .

An examination of how Britain and France are handling the new religious and racial diversity that has become a fact of life in both countries, and how postcolonial minorities are caught between the nation and the state in relation to status and identity, acceptance and integration. -- .

This book provides an exceptional introduction to Polish theatre since the fall of communism, exploring how theatre goes beyond norms and nationalistic concepts to intersect with politics, feminism, queer identities, the rise in anti-Semitism, ethnicities and history. -- .

An ethnographic and historical study of the main Albania-Greece highway, exploring the post-Cold War political and cultural transformation of Europe through the examination of cross-border infrastructure. -- .

This book explains why Brazil is taking an increasingly prominent international role, how it conducts and plans its regional and global interactions, and what the South American giant intends to do with its rising international influence. -- .

This book provides an accessible but thorough account of the US Supreme Court and its influence on American society and political life. -- .

The stadium century investigates why and how French spectators attended major sporting events in such vast numbers through the twentieth century, demonstrating the associated connections between urbanism, politics and sport. -- .

Men in reserve provides the first nationwide study of the reserved occupations, bringing together a wide range of sources including new oral histories, autobiographies, archive, visual and film materials. -- .

Based on extensive first-hand fieldwork, this book offers rare insight into activist ethnography and the role of emotions and violence in social movement reproduction, with implications extending far beyond the study locale. -- .

An investigation of the representation of ethnicities across a range of media in contemporary France. -- .

"Debt as power is a timely and innovative contribution to our understanding of one of the most prescient issues of our time: the explosion of debt across the global economy and related requirement of political leaders to pursue exponential growth to meet the demands of creditors and investors."

On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970s and late 1990s, the author offers a sociological analysis of memory, hope and redemption in reggae music. -- .

Uses court records to re-evaluate women's economic roles in early modern Scotland. -- .

Examines the experiences of First World War nurses through their own writings, offering fresh insights into the reality of industrial warfare. -- .

The follow-up to Casino capitalism, this is another classic text, and the last book written by Susan Strange. It builds on the previous work, discussing the weak points of a financial system driven by volatile markets rather than by governments. -- .