Books published by Manchester University Press

Reviews the burial history of central North Yorkshire -- .

The first history of the Irish juvenile justice system -- .

The first comprehensive overview of the resurgence of interest in realist political theory, and a defence of liberal politics in realist terms -- .

This study applies the concept of postmemory, developed in Holocaust studies, to novels by contemporary British writers. The first monograph-length study of postmemory in British fiction, it focuses on a group of texts about the World Wars. -- .

Examines the problem of corruption in British urban society and politics between 1930 and 1995 -- .

Examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean -- .

Examines how the elite in early modern Ireland spoke about human societies and human bodies, and demonstrates that this elite discourse was grounded in a commitment to the languages and sciences of Renaissance Humanism -- .

This book is about reading and studying poetry. Using fully-worked examples and complete poems wherever possible, it shows all the key elements of poetry 'at work' in poems -- .

The first in-depth study of Britain's many work camp systems. -- .

The first comprehensive account of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) in Ireland -- .

The first comprehensive survey of women in the Weimar Republic, exploring the diversity and multiplicity of women's experiences in the economy, politics and society. -- .

The first detailed scholarly and authoritative analysis of Richard Attenborough's work as a filmmaker -- .

Includes the author's interviews with various crime writers conducted at Yellowbird Productions, Stockholm, Sweden, Mar. 30, 2011.

Analyses the experiences of Spanish Republican refugees in France -- .

Explores the impact of the highly controversial means test in south Wales and north-east England -- .

New edition, combines a discussion of successive historical approaches to the English Reformation with a critical review of recent debates in the area -- .

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. -- .

The first book-length academic study of the television programmes created, written by, and/or executive-produced, by Abbott -- .

Explores the experiences of middle-class men on the English home front during the First World War -- .

Assesses the impact of the Second Vatican Council on the ordinary believer, alongside contemporaneous shifts in British society -- .

Explores the significance of visual things that are 'under construction' in works by playwrights including Shakespeare, Robert Greene and John Lyly -- .

Looks in detail at the growth in popularity and profile of the English folk arts in the first decade of the twenty-first century -- .

Explores the role of public sector agencies in the regeneration of east Manchester -- .

A theoretically astute overview of key developments in art and its contexts since the 1990s. -- .

Explores the arrival and development of Muslim immigrant communities in Britain and Germany during the post-1945 period through the case studies of Newcastle upon Tyne and Bremen -- .

Analyses images of the maternal and pregnant body in historical art -- .

Detailed study of same-sex desire and military authority in the British Armed Forces between 1939 and 1945 -- .

The first full length account of the 1979 'winter of discontent' -- .

A comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature, Thomas Pynchon -- .