Books published by Manchester University Press

This study broadens the debate over the cultural history of World War I beyond the Western Front, putting Australian dominance of the historiography of Gallipoli into perspective. It explores the cultural history of the 1915 campaign through the books and articles written by men who were there.

This book offers a stimulating new approach to studying social and political theory. It combines specially selected extracts from the political classics with original and insightful essays offering a commentary upon them. -- .

Fills a gap in the still burgeoning literature on all aspects of women's lives in this period; A broad range of material is used, most of which has never been translated before; The three sections of the book provide a comprehensive account of all aspects of Renaissance women's lives as well as contemporary views on the nature of women.

Central Asia is a fascinating region yet remote and unfamiliar to many people. This new study provides an introduction to the politics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgzstan, Tajikistan, Turkestan, and Uzbekistan. -- .

Examines European, American and Japanese communities in China and Korea, and challenges received notions of agency and collaboration by also looking at the roles in China of British and Japanese colonial subjects from Korea, Taiwan and India, and at Chinese Christians and White Russian refugees. -- .

In this introductory guide, the author identifies key feminist approaches to popular culture from the 1960s to the present and demonstrates how the relationship between feminism, femininity and popular culture has often been a troubled one.

Reading Adaptations provides an original introduction to thewidespread and extremely popular practice of stage adaptation in the lateeighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. -- .

Beckett''s reception was characterised in its early stages by a sustained attention to nothing as a philosophical concept. Theodor Adorno, however, was quick to argue that Beckett''s plays resisted - unlike Sartre''s - having their nothing transformed into something. This Beckettian nothing, moreover, is often invested with the aura of the genius, either for eulogical or dismissive purposes. This volume invites its readership to understand the complex ways in which the Beckett canon both suggests and resists turning nothing into something by looking at specific, sometimes almost invisible ways in which ''little nothings'' pervade the Beckett canon.The volume has two main functions: on the one hand, it looks at ''nothing'' not only as a content but also a set of rhetorical strategies to reconsider afresh classic Beckett problems such as Irishness, silence, value, marginality, politics and the relationships between modernism and postmodernism and absence and presence. On the other, it focuses on ''nothing'' in order to assess how the Beckett oeuvre can help us rethink contemporary preoccupations with materialism, neurology, sculpture, music and television.Both advanced students and scholars of Beckett will find the volume of interest. It comprises jargon-free chapters that analyse Beckett''s prose, drama, film, television, manuscripts and marginalia. It will prove of interest to advanced students and scholars in English, French, Comparative Literature, Drama, Visual Studies, Philosophy, Music, Cinema and TV studies.

A groundbreaking edition of three seventeenth-century plays that all engage in diverse and exciting ways with questions of gender and performance. The plays are John Fletcher's 'The Wild-Goose Chase', James Shirley's 'The Bird in a Cage' and Margaret Cavendish's 'The Convent of Pleasure'. -- .

An annotated translation of the principal narrative source written from a perspective East of the Rhine for the period in which the Carolingian Empire gave way to a number of successor empires, including the one that would become Germany. An indispensible resource for those studying the ninth century. -- .

One of the most famous plays by the leading Spanish dramatist of the Golden Age, El Caballero de Olmedo is made accessible to English readers through a context-setting introduction, and helpful notes to scenes and difficult passages. -- .

Published in association with the United Nations, this bookbuilds on the existing body of literature on gender and democratization bylooking at the relevance of national machineries for the advancement of women. -- .

This is a study of the rule of Cromwell's major-generals over England and Wales during the 1655 and 1656, a period which had a dramatic impact upon contemporaries and has remained a powerful symbol of military rule down to the 21st century.

The nineteenth-century's steam railway epitomised modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. In Railways and culture in Britain Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of train technology, and how this was represented in British society. -- .

This study examines the profound changes that twentieth-century performance has wrought on Shakespeare's complex drama of war and politics. What was accepted at the turn of the century as a patriotic celebration of a national hero has emerged in the modern theatre as a dark and troubling analysis of the causes and costs of war. -- .

A unique work that collections, for the first time, a wide variety of materials on both Italian fascism and antifascism. -- .

This collection of essays addresses the significance of Bergson's philosophical legacy for contemporary thought, his work is examined in terms set by modern debates in metaphysics, relativity theory, evolutionary theory, philosophy of mind, environmentalism and aesthetics.

How were cultural, political and social identities formed in the early modern period? This book looks at community and networks, the importance of place and the value of rhetoric in generating "community".

Following the overthrow of the absolutist monarchy in France in 1789, European history was punctuated by political upheavals until in 1848 the continent was swept by revolutionary fervour. Britain alone of the major western powers seemed exempt. This text examines this apparent difference.

This anthology focuses on Britain and France in a period critical to their development as great powers. Its emphasis is on the regions and nations of which these two states were composed, rather than on the monolithic states, and many facets of their history are illustrated.

Examines immigration, ethnicity and racism in Britain from 1815 to 1945. This book tackles four themes: why so many immigrants made their way to Britain during that time; the geographical, gender and economic divisions of newcomers; ethnicity; and the reactions of the British to the newcomers.

Irish Poetry since 1950 is a survey of poetry, from NorthernIreland, the Republic, Britain, and the US, covering the 1950s, the 1960s, theearly period of the Troubles up to 1976, the 1980s and the 1990s. -- .

Italian text. English introduction and notes.

Groundbreaking, erudite and interdisciplinary volume on the influence of Dante throughout the Victorian period -- .

Argues convincingly that Russia will never be able to create a viable democracy as long as authoritarian regimes are able to flourish in the regions. -- .

A range of material covering the 'tyranny' and deposition of Richard II and the usurpation of the throne by his cousin, who became King Henry IV. -- .

French language edition of Candide in Denmark, the continuation of the adventures of Voltaire's famous creation, with introduction and notes in French. -- .

Offers a representative selection of the work of the seventeenth-century poets, Malherbe, de Viau and Saint-Amant. This title also provides supporting documentation to bring out the unique literary personality of each, and to help make their poetry as accessible as possible to a modern reader.

Containing short stories, this title presents a romantic amalgam of elements drawn from fairy-tale and folklore, the fantastic and the society tale, serving didactic, satirical and whimsical purposes.