Books published by Manchester University Press

A collection of articles addressing research trends in the history of British leisure while also presenting a wide range of articles on cultural conflict and leisure in the twentieth century. It includes innovative research on a number of topics, including television, cinema, the circus, women's leisure, dance, football and drug culture. -- .

Investigates the crucial question of 'restitution' in the work of W. G. Sebald. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplines, with a foreword by his English translator Anthea Bell. -- .

A much needed, fully annotated and modernized text of a long neglected play used by Shakespeare as the principal basis of King John. Published anonymously in 1591, it can now be attributed definitively to Peele and ranks as the most important Elizabethan history play after Shakespeare and Marlowe's Edward II. -- .

Explores the multiple connections between European monarchs and their overseas colonies

"This volume grew out of two sessions at the Annual Conference for the College Art Assocation in Los Angeles in 2012"--P. xiii.

This volume presents the latest research on three of the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian civilisation: mummies, magic and medicine. Drawing on recent archaeological fieldwork, new research on human remains, reassessments of ancient texts and modern experimental archaeology, it seeks to answer some of Egyptology's biggest questions. -- .

Mistress of everything examines how indigenous people across Britain's settler colonies engaged with Queen Victoria in their lives and predicaments, incorporated her into their political repertoires, and implicated her as they sought redress for the effects of imperial expansion during her long reign. -- .

Born into a civil service family in India in 1907, Helen Muspratt was a lifelong communist, a member of the Cambridge intellectual milieu of the 1930s, and a working mother at a time when such a role was unusual for women of her class. She was also a pioneering photographer, creating an extraordinary body of work in many different styles and genres. In partnership with Lettice Ramsey she made portraits of many notable figures of the 1930s in the fields of science and culture. Her experimental photography using techniques such as solarisation and multiple exposure bears comparison with the innovations of Man Ray and Lee Miller. And her political convictions led her to produce important documentary records of the Soviet Union and of the desperate situation of the unemployed in the Welsh valleys. Critical to her work was a preoccupation with the face - her attention to the 'shape and angle' was what made her an eminent portrait photographer. This book reproduces some of Helen Muspratt's most important photographic images, showing all the various facets of her practice. The accompanying text by Jessica Sutcliffe is an intimate and revealing memoir of her mother which offers a fascinating insight into her life, work and politics.

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. -- .

Cultures of governance and peace assembles a range of critical insights on the intersection of governance, culture and conflict resolution in India and the EU. These two epistemic, cultural and institutional settings, though strikingly different in many ways, have recently been brought closer together by the ideas and practices of what are known as liberal peace and the neoliberal state, as well as associated development projects. While the differences between India and the EU are obvious in terms of geography, culture and the nature and shape of institutions and historical forces, the commonalities are surprising. This is best reflected in their light critiques of neoliberalism, their conceptual relationships with governmentality, their focus on decentralised institutions and local forms of peace agency, the escalatory tendencies of borders and centralising government, and the urgency of development and self-determination pressures. This is the first book to compare contemporary Indian and EU approaches to peace. Based on a range of case studies that examine these themes in the context of the practices of conflict resolution, it provides an overview of governance issues vis-à-vis the search for peace at local and state or regional levels, highlighting the increasing number of perspectives from within 'emerging' countries. Postgraduate students, peace and conflict researchers, and policy-makers and practitioners will benefit immensely from the insights provided in this book.

A unique collection that offers fresh and original perspectives on some of the most important themes in Frankish history -- .

Providing an important intervention in contemporary Irish cultural-critical debate, this collection explores how Irish women writers exercised their political concerns and influence through their literary outputs during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. -- .

An edited collection on Alan Hollinghurst, one of Britain's leading contemporary novelists with an outstanding international reputation. -- .

This original collection of essays examines for the first time the place of 'saints' and sanctity in nineteenth-century Britain. -- .

An impressive list of authors examine how abjection can be discussed in relation to a host of different subjects, including marginality and gender. -- .

An impressive list of authors examine how abjection can be discussed in relation to a host of different subjects, including marginality and gender. -- .

This volume brings together many aspects of the Tapestry: the practical skills involved in making the embroidery, aspects of its iconography, its first documented association with Bayeux in an inventory of 1476, its later copying and reproduction in different media and its role as a model for the production of stitched narrative friezes today. -- .

Examines the connected histories of how science was governed, and used in governance, in twentieth-century Britain. -- .

Representations of Renaissance monarchy analyses the portraits and personal imagery of the renowned 'Father of Arts and Letters', Francis I, one of the most frequently portrayed rulers of sixteenth-century Europe. The distinctive likeness of the Valois king was widely disseminated and perceived by his French subjects and Tudor and Habsburg rivals abroad. In providing a valuable point of comparison with publications on the representation of Henry VIII, the book makes a meaningful contribution to scholarship on the enterprise of royal image-making and practice of visual rhetoric in the courts of early modern Europe. It also provides a useful guide on the manipulative mechanics of portraiture as a social tool and cultural phenomenon. Whereas conventional studies of images of rule emphasise the propagandistic agency or regulatory capacity of royal images and objects, the dispersive replication of Francis I's portraits are shown to have impacted on his reputation in unexpectedlypositive and negative ways. The discussion not only highlights the inventiveness of the visual arts in Renaissance France but also alludes to the enduring politics of physical appearance and seductive power of the face and body in modern visual culture. Published on the five hundredth anniversary of Francis I's accession in 1515, this book will appeal to scholars and students of medieval and Renaissance art, the history of portraiture or anyone interested in images of monarchy and the history of France.

The first published translation of Hincmar's treatise - a key source for studying ninth-century political history and the ideology of kingship. -- .

Assembles a diverse range of texts to encourage and facilitate the study of medieval towns - a fresh incentive following the collapse of the city-based Roman Empire, shaped by the cultural and commercial currents of the time. -- .

This unique collection of essays examines the many relationships that existed between Wales and the expanding British overseas empire between 1650 and 1830. -- .

Originally published: Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2012.

Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British imperial experience. This collection demonstrates how individuals, their curatorial practices, and intellectual and political agendas influenced the development of a variety of museums across the globe. -- .

This book offers the complete text of three novellas, along with vocabulary and explanatory notes to make them fully accessible to learners of Spanish from post-GCSE level and upwards. The introduction provides background on the author and her position in Spanish cultural, political and literary history, and on the history of feminism in Spain. -- .

This anthology gathers together original works from some of bioethics' most celebrated scholars. Focused on and around the works of John Harris, the book addresses the most debated issues in contemporary bioethics, and will serve as an excellent text and resource for students, scholars, and practitioners interested in bioethics. -- .

This book is the first in-depth study of the debates over devolution in the four nations of the UK in the period up to 1945, exploring divergent trends and attitudes towards the principle of devolution at both local and national (UK) level. -- .

First book-length critical work devoted to the impact of the end of empire and traces of imperial memory in mainstream English Literature since the Second World War. Authors studied include Josephine Tey, William Golding, Penelope Lively, David Peace and Ian McEwan. Represents the best of current scholarship. -- .

Explores the intersection of monsters, ghosts, representation and technology in Gothic texts from the nineteenth century to the present. -- .

She-Wolf explores the cultural history of the female werewolf, from her first appearance in medieval literature to recent incarnations in film, television and popular literature. -- .