Books published by Manchester University Press

The first full-length book devoted to Jacques Demy in the English language. -- .

Explores the rapid rise of cheap print and how it permeated Venetian urban culture in the Renaissance -- .

A major new study of Africa's most important writer, offering a comprehensive reassessment of Achebe's work as a novelist, broadcaster and political thinker -- .

Argues for new relationships between Chaucer's poetry and works by others -- .

Explains he special effects used to represent storms in the earl modern playhouses, and details how those effects filter into Shakespeare's dramatic language. With chapters on Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Pericles and The Tempest -- .

In this first English translation, former Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis examines the European debt crisis with particular reference to the case of Greece -- .

This book is concerned with the interaction of traditional politics, culture and social groups, of local and national influences, of ideals and individuals. It looks at local government, social groups and housing policy in the twentieth century. This is a remarkable story of how these factors were interwoven to create and manage policy. -- .

Describes how Victorian physicians located in a medical culture that privileged general knowledge over narrow specialism came to be transformed into the specialised physicians we now call neurologists -- .

This book is about what it meant to build a city in Germany at the turn of the twentieth century. It explores the physical spaces and mental attitudes that conditioned beliefs about the past and expectations for the future in the crucial German generations that shaped the young Reich, fought the Great War, and experienced the Weimar Republic. -- .

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 -- .

Explores the implications of scientific discourse on Russian concepts of mental illness and national health -- .

Shows that George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld thought about international politics, and about leadership, in divergent ways, and demonstrates the impact these differences had on the course of the Iraq war -- .

The first monograph-length study that charts the coercive diplomacy of the administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford as practised against their British ally -- .

Studies why and how successful forms of workers' interest representation could emerge in a hostile, post-communist context -- .

Examination of the popular film and fiction consumed by Britons in the 1920s and 1930s -- .

Matthew Schultz maps rhetorical hauntings across a wide range of postcolonial Irish novels, and defines the spectre as a non-present presence that simultaneously symbolises and analyses an overlapping of Irish myth and Irish history. -- .

This study places official discourse regarding urban amusement into the context of broader cultural understandings -- .

Compares the histories of psychiatric and voluntary hospital nurses' health from the rise of the professional nurse in 1880 to the advent of the National Health Service in 1948 -- .

Details the surveillance by the British security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain fleeing political persecution in Germany and Austria -- .

Explores the evolving shape of a series of Catholic festivals that took place throughout the duration of Portuguese colonial rule in Goa (1510-1961) -- .

Addresses the War of Independence from a new perspective by focusing on the attitude of the Catholic clergy -- .

Examines Shakespeare's role in contemporary culture -- .

A timely consideration of how children's and young people's education can confront and challenge social inequality -- .

A history of port health and immigration at a critical moment of transformation at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century -- .

An ethnographic study of ritual performance and place-making among Shi'a Muslim Iraqi women in Copenhagen -- .

Examines how political news was concealed, manipulated and distorted during the tumultuous later years of James I's reign -- .