Books published by Manchester University Press

This book explores Andrew Feenberg's idea that technology is both the main medium of domination in contemporary society and the principal site of democratic resistance. It presents his work as an account of the connection between disputes over the design of specific technologies and the challenge of constructing a new, sustainable civilisation. -- .

This volume is about the relationship between bodily interventions, intimate labour and bioprecarity. It considers how access to and regulations around different kinds of medical intervention create vulnerabilities, especially for minorities, racialized groups, queers and trans people. -- .

What makes an object queer? This collection considers the question in relation to lesbian, gay and transgender communities across time, cultures and space. Written by established and up-and-coming authors, the sixty-three chapters range from ancient Egyptian tomb paintings to political placards, snapshots, sex toys and the smartphone. -- .

This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British culture and society. -- .

This is the first English translation of Jacopo da Varagine's Chronicle of the city of Genoa. It broadens the available literature in English on medieval Italian urban life, providing an engaging introduction to medieval Genoa, civic culture, Dominican composition and the 'historical Jacopo'. -- .

Immigrants as outsiders in the two Irelands takes an all-island approach to map the diverse experiences of migrants in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. -- .

Battle-scarred examines mortality, medical care and military welfare during the British Civil Wars. Its focus on the victims of war and their means of survival provides a series of case studies to demonstrate how these visceral conflicts drove developments in medical care and military welfare for servicemen and their families. -- .

An interdisciplinary collection of essays examining the depiction of immigration from North Africa in contemporary French culture. -- .

This collection of essays opens a new perspective on the interplay of religious conflict and literary culture in early modern England. Focusing on negotiation instead of escalation, thirteen distinguished international scholars explore the specific ways available to mediate, displace or suspend confessional conflict in and through literature. -- .

This innovative interdisciplinary volume explores the politics of biblical translation and interpretation in a global context, demonstrating how biblical ideas and metaphors shaped narratives of racial, national and identity in the long nineteenth century. -- .

Communicating the History of Medicine offers a collection of case studies on academic outreach from historical and current perspectives. It questions the kind of linear thinking often found in policy or research assessment, instead offering a nuanced picture of both the promises and pitfalls of engaging audiences for research in the humanities. -- .

This book tells the story of critical avant-garde design in Japan. It challenge the characterisation of Japanese design as beautiful, sublime or a simple product of 'Japanese culture', and reveal the ways in which material and visual culture can serve to voice protest and formulate social critique. -- .

Dating Beowulf explores the difficulties and pleasures of intimacy with Beowulf -philological and speculative, playful and serious - and how they organise themselves in an array of interrelated critical practices. Opening avenues for future work, it complicates urgent questions in the discourses of literary theory and Old English studies. -- .

This edited volume examines the legacies former US President Barack Obama leaves across Asia and the Pacific, as well as the endurance of, and prospects for, those legacies two years into the Presidency of Donald Trump. -- .

This volume investigates the collaborative effort in the creation of knowledge in antiquarianism and archaeology. In eleven case studies ranging from early modern antiquarianism to modern archaeology, various aspects of interaction and dialogue within scholarly communities in Europe and North America are critically examined. -- .

This book examines the correlations being drawn between notions of progress and pathology across a range of socio-economic cultures in the long nineteenth century. -- .

Balancing the Self generates new insights into emerging fields of health governance, subjectivity and balance. This volume's wide-ranging discussions will be of interest to historians of medicine, sociologists, social policy analysts, and social and political historians, as well as lay and professional readers. -- .

This volume of essays presents innovative research from a variety of perspectives on the cultural significance of wolves, children raised by wolves, and werewolves, as portrayed in different media and genres. -- .

Giving an overview of contemporary Nordic Gothic in different media as well as tracing its history, Nordic Gothic also provides a number of case studies and in-depth analyses of individual narratives. It explores Nordic folklore, settings and identities as well as making visible cultural anxieties haunting the welfare state. -- .

This book examines how the late-medieval household acted as a sorter, user and disseminator of information. Considering the reciprocal relationship between the domestic experience and its cultural expression, contributors provide a fresh illustration of the imaginative scope of the late-medieval home and its centrality to cultural production. -- .

A timely and coherent collection on conversion studies of the Early Modern period, considering themes of conversion, materiality, embodiment and early modern spaces across and beyond Europe. -- .

A historical study of the development of British Liberalism within the Liberal Party and its successor, the Liberal Democrats, from 1956 to 2016. -- .

This volume provides a comprehensive reinterpretation of the 1916 Central Asian Revolt - a key event in the history of Central Asia, the Russian Empire and the First World War. -- .

This illustrated collection documents Quarantine's large scale performance work, Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring., together with a collection of writings from many different disciplines and perspectives on its various themes, specifically regarding the human life cycle and human relationships to time. -- .

Written in a period characterized by increased mobility and the development of proto-capitalism, Thomas Dekker's Old Fortunatus (1599) is a journeying play that offers joyous celebration of the pleasures of travel and a circumspect critique of spendthrift indulgence. This Revels Plays edition makes Dekker's neglected stage romance newly available. -- .

This book explores how 'domestic' public policy approaches and concepts can enrich the study of foreign policy. It has chapters by leading experts on arguably the most important approaches in public policy. -- .

Immigrants as outsiders in the two Irelands takes an all-island approach to map the diverse experiences of migrants in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. -- .

This book builds on the 'nudge' idea proposed by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, proposing an alternative 'think' strategy that calls on citizens to decide their own priorities as part of a process of civic and democratic renewal. It sets out the different approaches in theory and presents a series of experiments that show them in action. -- .

Ripped, torn and cut offers a collection of original essays exploring the motivations behind - and the politics within - the multitude of fanzines that emerged in the wake of British punk from 1976. -- .

Europe on the move is the first book to address the dramatic and poignant refugee crisis that erupted during the First World War and that enveloped the entire continent. Written by specialists in the field it will appeal to all those who are interested in the era of the First World War and in Europe's first major refugee crisis. -- .