Books published by Manchester University Press

The first in-depth study of a distinctive brand of women's rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement. It looks at the lives and work of a number of female activists, whose renunciation of religion shaped their struggle for emancipation. Anti-religious or secular ideas were fundamental to the development of feminist thought. -- .

In the twenty years after Ireland joined the UN in 1955, one subject dominated its fortunes: Africa. The first detailed study of Ireland's relationship with that continent, this book documents its special place in Irish history. -- .

This book examines the 11,000 foreign nationals who worked for the Chinese Customs Service1854-1949, exploring how their lives and careers were shaped by imperial ideologies, networks and structures. Looks at professional lives, social activities, private lives, and how these factors were influenced by the changing political context. -- .

Looks at the attitudes of colonial officials in Africa who served between the end of the19th century and WWII, as well as what shaped such attitudes, including education and training, interrelationships, infrastructural change, and anti-colonial nationalism. -- .

Broad ranging, interdisciplinary, this book seeks to understand the corporate conceptions of identity and work, and how they are reflected in our wider culture - through novels, cookery writing, autobiography and the many constructions of narrative. -- .

Focusing on Manchester, this book shows that canals were at the heart of the self-styled Cottonopolis. Not only did canals move the key commodities of Manchester's industrial revolution -coal, corn, and cotton - but canal banks also provided the key sites for the factories that made Manchester the 'shock city' of the early Victorian age. -- .

This book uses a case study to explore the contribution which scientific knowledge made to the growth trajectory of England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The aim is not to re-tell the story of the Industrial Revolution, but to reconstruct its preliminary stage which is here labelled the Industrial Enlightenment. -- .

Blair's community challenges the widely held view that New Labour's policies and approach have reflected or even been influenced by the work of communitarian writers, by comparing party policy and rhetoric directly with their work. -- .

Theatre and drama studies, film studies, cultural studies -- .

Students and lecturers in English and Cultural Studies, and Comparative Literature -- .

The story of Noah's Flood is one of the Bible's most popular stories, and other flood myths are preserved by cultures across the world. This book presents the first comprehensive study of the incorporation of the Flood myth into the literary and historical imagination of the Anglo-Saxons, ranging from the works of Bede to Beowulf. -- .

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 Britain from all over the world; and combatants. -- .

This book shows how the grotesque continues to be a powerful force in contemporary British writing and provides an illuminating picture of often controversial aspects of recent fiction. -- .

This book examines the creation and collapse of the first power-sharing administration in Northern Ireland, and British government policy during the period 1972-75. It also analyses the relationship between the British and Irish states during the 1972-75 period. -- .

This book addresses the growing gap between policy makers and (organised) citizens, and attempts by international organisations to implement a multi-stakeholder approach largely facilitated by the internet. -- .

The most comprehensive study published to date about John Galsworthy's philanthropic support for, and his compositions about soldiers disabled in the Great War. It makes available for the first time in a single edition the most significant of his compositions about the war disabled and examining their value as historical documents. -- .

This book argues that memory functions as a key element in contemporary South African re-imagining of historical events and in constructing new definitions of national and personal identity. It compares two ways in which memory is embodied: in repertoires of practices, songs, dance, rituals, and in material archives, texts, documents, buildings. -- .

This book provides an engaging and informative insight intothe experiences, dreams and hopes of children and teenagers in contemporaryIreland. -- .

This book explores how the European Commission has addressed criticism of its administrative ethics since 1999. -- .

Focusing on the cultural politics of eating and drinking and the importance of cafes and teashops to the literary culture of the time, Masculinities, modernist fiction and the urban public sphere charts the changing representations of masculinity in modernist fiction in the context of London, Dublin, Paris and Prague. -- .

Provides an original and challenging account of racism in twenty-first century Irish society and locates this in its historical, political, sociological and policy contexts. -- .

The Swing Riots were the most dramatic and widespread rising of the English rural poor. Protestors destroyed machines, demanding higher wages and better poor relief. Swing represented a genuine challenge to the existing ruling order, provoking a bitter and bloody repression. This is a vivid account of a defining moment in British history. -- .

Explores the political mobilisation of the two largest French veterans' associations during the interwar years, the Union federale (UF) and the Union nationale des combattants (UNC). -- .

This volume in the French Film Directors series has been long-awaited by students and academics of French and European cinema in particular and by Film Studies students in general. -- .

Written by a former military lawyer, the book will be of interest to military commanders, their staff and legal advisers but also to officials in Foreign and Defence Ministries and non governmental agencies working in conflict situations, as well as staff of international courts and tribunals dealing with war crimes. -- .

Focuses on local democratic politics in Britain over the last decade and a half from the election of the New Labour Government right up to the current Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition government. -- .

An innovative book revealing the impact of print on social change in early modern Ireland -- .

Academics and students researching modern and contemporary social and cultural history, sociology, cultural studies and human geography -- .