Books published by Manchester University Press

This book is an authoritative account of the career of Emilio Fernandez, (1906-1986), one of Mexico's and Latin America's most successful and significant directors. It challenges assumptions about classical Mexican cinema and offers new, detailed textual analyses of Fernandez' most significant films (Enamorada, Rio Escondido, Maria Candelaria). -- .

Looks at the diversities of South Asian social History, focusing on Orissa. Examines the environment; health and medicine; conversion (in Hinduism); popular movements; social history of princely states; connections between the marginal social groups and nationalism; decolonisation; patriarchy; and gender-related violence. -- .

The changes and divisions on the British left over the Israel-Palestine conflict forms the central theme of this archive based study. -- .

This book examines the transfer and adaptation of British female gentility in various locations across the British Empire, including Africa, New Zealand and India, as expressed through their personal and household possessions, specifically their dress, living rooms, gardens and food. -- .

This book analyses the 1984-5 miners' strike by focusing on its vital Scottish dimensions, especially the role of workplace politics and community mobilisation. -- .

Theatre and performance studies; trauma studies; cultural studies; sociology and social anthropology; philosophy; classics. -- .

Aimed at both the academic and the general reader. There is a large component of entirely new material that will ensure its appeal to those currently working on Chatwin in a research context. The biographical insights and narrative structure will attract the interested Chatwin reader who is keen to discover more about his literary approach. -- .

Specialist researchers; academics in Cuban Studies/Latin American Studies/Cultural Studies; postgraduate students; undergraduate students (all years); enthusiasts. -- .

Seeking to better understand what it means to grow older in contemporary Britain from the perspective of older people themselves, this richly detailed ethnographic study engages in debates over selfhood and people's relationships with time. -- .

Cricket and Community in England: 1800 to the Present Day is a path-breaking enquiry into the social history of the summer game. -- .

This book follows Thomas Jones, the first Welsh missionary from rural Wales to Cherrapunji, now one of the most Christianised parts of India. It foregrounds broader political, scientific, racial and military ideologies that mobilised the Khasi Hills into an interconnected network of imperial control. -- .

This book offers a ground-breaking perspective on how imperial culture was disseminated from the 1890s onward. It identifies the important synergies that grew between a new civic culture and the wider imperial project. Three case studies are considered against an extensive analysis of seminal and current historiography. -- .

Looks at when, why and how Spain declined in status from its pre-eminent position as a leading world power in the seventeenth century, examining the methodologies and schools of inquiry that have shaped the discourse and how historians' perceptions have been influenced by time and circumstance. -- .

Rescaling the State provides a theoretically-informed and empirically-rich account of the process of devolution undertaken in the UK since 1997, focusing in particular on the devolution of economic governance. -- .

Why do many of the most prominent books and films of the last decade return obsessively to the themes and imagery of pornography? Discussing many of France's most successful and scandalous contemporary writers and directors, this book is the first to address this important trend. -- .

This book explores the importance of history to Elizabethan and early Stuart gentry and how this led to a vibrant antiquarian culture. The family, town and county histories written by the community, which form the core of the study, had an influence on the development of local history in England which lasted into the twentieth century. -- .

Offers a new and challenging account of the relationships between rhetoric and aesthetics, informed by literature, critical theory and philosophy. Offers readings of familiar and unfamiliar early modern texts by Shakespeare, Sidney, Jonson and others that will be of interest to researchers and students of literature, aesthetics and rhetoric. -- .

This is a study of the English Reformation as a political and literary event. Focusing on an eclectic group of texts, unified by their explication of the key elements of the cultural history of the period 1510-80 the book unravels the political, poetic and religious themes of the era. -- .

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 practiced inequalities. -- .

Explores how from its formation in 1954 the intellectual movement Tuairim ('opinion' in Irish) was at the vanguard of the challenge to orthodoxy and conservatism. -- .

Provides a comprehensive introduction to China's political system, outlining the major features of the Chinese model and highlighting its claims and challenges. -- .

Students and Lecturers in Irish and British medical and social history. -- .

From bottle gardens, batman and the bachelor pad to garden gnomes and monogamy spray, this book uses a range of objects to explore the meanings and uses of kitsch. An accessible, comprehensive introduction for students and informed readers, it adds to debates on taste in cultural theory and sociology and provides a review of the literature. -- .

An energetic look at BBC Television in 1950s, illustrating how it was at the forefront of popular programming, including the first Reality TV programmes, quiz and game shows, even 'problem' talk shows. -- .

Based on over 250 psychiatric case files, this book traces the lives of Kenya's 'white insane' to focus not on the 'great white hunters' and heroic pioneer farmers but on those Europeans who did not manage to emulate the colonial ideal. In doing so, the book raises important new questions around deviance, transgression and social control. -- .

Sport and British Jewry provides the first wide-ranging examination of the importance of sport in the history of the British-Jewish community. Covering the period from 1890 through to 1970, it examines the peak era of Jewish involvement and interest in sport and physical recreation in Britain in recent times. -- .