Bücher veröffentlicht von Manchester University Press

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 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 -- .

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. -- .

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 -- .

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 -- .

Based on extensive use of primary evidence, this book is a study of the British communist life between the Wars as it was experienced at the various phases of the life cycle. -- .

This book analyses the forms of popular science, the social and economic status of those who practiced it and the audience, and the settings for scientific dissemination and appropriation. -- .

Offers a way of conceptualising how women's drinking habits changed over more than a century in Britain. -- .

Presents a salutory warning to the international community against the fashionable but superficial view that there is an "Irish model" which can be exported to cauterise ethnic troubles around the globe. -- .

This collection of essays offers a radical re-evaluation of the nature of crowds and popular protest in the early modern period -- .

A comprehensive history of the development of British sports medicine as a medical specialism, and of the changing biomedical understanding of the athlete - from normal healthy man, to supernormal hero or even physiological freak - from 1880 to the early twenty-first century. -- .

Medicine was transformed in the eighteenth century. Aligning the trajectories of intellectual and material wealth, this book uncovers how medicine acquired a new materialism as well as new materials in the context of global commerce and warfare. -- .

Pageantry and Power is the first full and in-depth cultural history of the Lord Mayor's Show in the early modern period. The book provides new insight into the culture and history of the London of Shakespeare's time and beyond. -- .

Using as its central example the British Association for the Advancement of Science this is the first book-length treatment of this leading body for the promotion of science for more than 25 years and the first ever of British geography's civic history. -- .

Material relations tells the story of nineteenth and early twentieth century middle-class families by exploring the domestic spaces they inhabited and the material goods they prized. By opening the doors of the house, the book sheds new light on aspects of family life including love, marriage, sex, childhood and death. -- .