Books published by Manchester University Press

In the nineteenth-century feminist pantheon, John Stuart Mill and William Thompson have always loomed large, eclipsing the many other men of thought, letters and action who worked to promote women's rights. This anthology aims to shed light on these under-appreciated figures by bringing together a unique collection of seminal, little-known and forgotten writings ranging from 1809 to 1913. The texts - drawn from diaries, essays, parliamentary speeches, pamphlets, newspaper articles and sermons - testify to the part played by the radical tradition, liberal political culture, religious dissent and economic criticism in the development of women's politics in nineteenth-century Britain. They also provide insight into the tensions, contradictions and ambiguities of position provoked by shifting patterns of masculinity and re-definitions of femininity, and will help revise common assumptions and misconceptions regarding male attitudes to sex equality.With a substantial historical introduction that adds value to the interpretative framework preceding all selected extracts, Male voices on women's rights is a timely complement to the rare scholarly studies undertaken in recent years on men's roles in the history of feminism, and will be of interest to students and scholars alike.

Austerity baby might best be described as an 'oblique memoir'. Janet Wolff's fascinating volume is a family history - but one that is wide-ranging and consistently surprising. The underlying and repeated themes of the book are exile and displacement, life (and death) during the Third Reich, mother-daughter and sibling relationships, the generational transmission of trauma and experience, transatlantic reflections and the struggle for creative expression. Stories mobilised and people encountered in the course of the narrative include: the internment of aliens in Britain during the Second World War; cultural life in Rochester, New York in the 1920s; the social and personal meanings of colour(s); the industrialist and philanthropist Henry Simon of Manchester and his relationship with the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen; the liberal British campaigner and MP of the 1940s Eleanor Rathbone; and reflections on the lives and images of spinsters. The text is supplemented throughout by extensive visual materials - including photographs, paintings and facsimile documents - which illustrate the story while engaging indirectly with the written word.

An investigation of the place of imperialist rhetoric in the history of twentieth century empires. Issues examined include discourses of imperialist modernization, the language of colonial 'civilizing', and the rhetorical justifications advanced for violent colonial practices. -- .

Examines various ways in which the Empire was displayed in Britain between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, looking at music, satirical prints, exploration, battles and even nascent nationalism. -- .

Both pedagogical and critical, this collection outlines the current state of recognition theory, studies the influence of French theory upon its evolution, and uses French thought to identity aspects of the recognitive process which are often overlooked. -- .

Collection of essays by experts in Renaissance and Gothic studies tracks the lines of connection between Gothic sensibilities and the discursive network of the Renaissance -- .

This book brings together international relations scholars, political theorists and historians to reflect on the intellectual history of American foreign policy since the late nineteenth century. -- .

A comprehensive study of how different Gothic forms have adapted, engaged with and represented the neoliberal agenda across the globe. -- .

The volume's broad focus and extended timeline offer an unprecedented and comprehensive consideration of the features of renaissance that may be traced to the city from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century.

This volume presents an anthology of primary material relating to the six Stuart successions (1603, 1625, 1660, 1685, 1688–9, 1702), which punctuated a turbulent and pivotal hundred years of British history. This period also included two accessions to the role of Lord Protector: those of Oliver and Richard Cromwell. Each succession generated an outpouring of publications in a wide range of forms and genres, including speeches, diary entries, news reports, letters and sermons. Above all, successions were marked by a wealth of poetry, by writers including Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, Aphra Behn and John Dryden. This important material reflects in fascinating ways upon both the particular moments of transition, and the contested and changing political values of the Stuart century.By gathering together some of the very best Stuart succession writing, Literature of the Stuart successions offers new and enlightening perspectives on the history and culture of the period. It includes fifty texts (or extracts), selected to demonstrate the breadth and significance of succession writing. Additional material guides readers through the period and supports them in their engagement with particular pieces. The texts are modernised, and are preceded by a substantial general introduction, while each section has an additional introduction, and each text is preceded by a headnote. Textual annotation aims to explain and contextualise this rich and complex collection of material. Designed for use by students,Literature of the Stuart successions will also appeal to readers with a general interest in the Stuarts.

This volume presents an anthology of primary material relating to the six Stuart successions (1603, 1625, 1660, 1685, 1688-9, 1702), which punctuated a turbulent and pivotal hundred years of British history. This period also included two accessions to the role of Lord Protector: those of Oliver and Richard Cromwell. Each succession generated an outpouring of publications in a wide range of forms and genres, including speeches, diary entries, news reports, letters and sermons. Above all, successions were marked by a wealth of poetry, by writers including Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, Aphra Behn and John Dryden. This important material reflects in fascinating ways upon both the particular moments of transition, and the contested and changing political values of the Stuart century. By gathering together some of the very best Stuart succession writing, Literature of the Stuart successions offers new and enlightening perspectives on the history and culture of the period. It includes fifty texts (or extracts), selected to demonstrate the breadth and significance of succession writing. Additional material guides readers through the period and supports them in their engagement with particular pieces. The texts are modernised, and are preceded by a substantial general introduction, while each section has an additional introduction, and each text is preceded by a headnote. Textual annotation aims to explain and contextualise this rich and complex collection of material. Designed for use by students, Literature of the Stuart successions will also appeal to readers with a general interest in the Stuarts.

This volume looks at a range of texts and practices thataddress race and its relationship with television. It explores televisionpolicy and the management of race, how transnationalism can diminish racialdiversity, historical questions of representation, the myth of a multiculturalEngland and more. -- .

Explores a new area of Cromwellian studies that has not been fully explored before and covers a wide range of both domestic and international research. Its wide chronological and geographical range make it attractive to those interested in the history of other periods and countries, as well as to students of early modern Britain. -- .

How might the anthropological study of cosmologies illuminate understandings of the contemporary world? This book addresses this question by bringing together anthropologists whose research is informed by a concern with cosmological dimensions of social life in different ethnographic settings -- .

The Hungarian-born thinker Karl Polanyi (1886-1964) is renowned for his seminal work The Great Transformation (1944) and his writings on political economy. This volume presents a collection of texts never before published in English, including articles, papers, lectures, speeches, notes and draft manuscripts, mostly written between 1907 and 1923.Organised thematically around religion, ethics, ideology, world politics and Hungarian politics, the topics include contemporary thinkers, the Tisza government, the Aster and the Bolshevik Revolutions, the Councils Republic, the Radical Citizens' Party, Hungarian democracy, the national question, political conviction, fatalism, British socialism, political theory and violence, the influential youth organization 'The Galilei Circle' and more.Karl Polanyi: The Hungarian writings is an outstanding and essential resource that brings to light for the first time the works of a key thinker whose oeuvre is relevant to today's study of globalisation, neoliberalism, social movements and international social policy.

This book presents a wide range of important, lively and engaging readings, aiming to capture the originality of Bauman's special way of doing sociology and all the complexity of his core ideas, in a way that connects with twenty-first century minds. -- .

Joshua Foa Dienstag engages in a critical encounter with the work of Stanley Cavell on cinema, focusing skeptical attention on the claims made for the contribution of cinema to the ethical character of democratic life. -- .

Joshua Foa Dienstag engages in a critical encounter with the work of Stanley Cavell on cinema, focusing skeptical attention on the claims made for the contribution of cinema to the ethical character of democratic life. -- .

Based on a critical appraisal of the constructivist approach in European studies, this volume introduces a new political sociology approach focused on actors. -- .

The European Union in Africa: Incoherent policies, asymmetrical partnership, declining relevance? provides a comprehensive analysis of EU-Africa relations since the beginning of the twenty-first century and includes contributions from leading experts in the field of EU external relations. -- .

This book provides new perspectives on the impact of Anglo-Irish Agreement through an exploration of the key concepts of the Northern Ireland Troubles. -- .

Spacing Ireland explores questions of 'space' and 'place' to understand the nature of major social, cultural and economic change in contemporary Ireland.The authors explore the intersections between everyday life and global exchanges through the contexts of the 'stuff' of contemporary everyday encounters -- .

In most of the world, the transition from life to death is a time of intense presence of states and other forms of authority. Focusing on the relationship between bodies and sovereignty, Governing the dead explores how, by whom and with what effects dead bodies are governed in conflict and non-conflict contexts across the world, including an analysis of the struggles over ''proper burials''; the repatriation of dead migrants; abandoned cemeteries; exhumations; ''feminicide''; the protection of dead drug-lords; and the disappeared dead. Mapping theoretical and empirical terrains, this volume suggests that the management of dead bodies is related to the constitution and membership of states and non-state entities that claim autonomy and impunity.

A revealing account of the family life and achievements of the Third Earl of Rosse, a hereditary peer and resident landlord at Birr Castle, County Offaly, in nineteenth-century Ireland, before, during and after the devastating famine of the 1840s -- .

The first book-length study to address Moore's significance to the Gothic, this volume is also the first to provide in-depth analyses of his spoken-word performances, poetry and prose, as well as his comics and graphic novels. -- .

Examines the pivotal influence of the succession question on the politics, religion and culture of the post-Armada years of Queen Elizabeth's reign -- .

Offers a comprehensive examination of the oeuvre of William Trevor -- .

Collection of new essays about the earl of Essex, one of the most important figures of the Elizabethan court -- .

Explores the nature and dynamics of Ireland's land questions during the 19th and 20th centuries, and also the ways in which the Irish land question has been written about by historians. -- .