Bücher veröffentlicht von Manchester University Press

This book provides an outline history of English spelling from the Anglo-Saxon' adoption of the Roman alphabet to the present day.

An exciting new anthology of plays and performance texts by British and American women from the late nineteenth century to the early 1930s. Written in an accessible style for students it contains an overview and two introductory essays, as well as biographical materials on each of the writers. -- .

The first book-length history of the classic French children's author, the comtesse de Segur (1799-1874). Virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, in France Segur is a national icon and a cultural phenomenon. This study of her life and works will interest scholars of children's literature, gender studies, and nineteenth-century France. -- .

A focused analytical and investigative study of the game The Lord of the Rings Online from a range of cultural and design perspectives written by well-known experts in their fields. The essays collected here make an important contribution to the development of contemporary Game Studies, as well as to Media Studies and Adaptation Studies. -- .

This student-friendly volume brings together English translations of the main narrative sources, and a small number of other relevant documents, for the reign of Roger II, the founder of the kingdom of Sicily. -- .

An original study seeking to challenge the negativity associated with council estates. It will be of interest not only to historians but to anyone interested in housing, housing policy, and key issues in urban studies. -- .

This is the only book currently on the market that attempts to construct a global perspective of Christian-Muslim interaction in a post-9/11 world. -- .

Return migration has long been a significant but neglected aspect of international population movements thorughout the centuries. Emigrant homecomings is the first study to rectify this imbalance by analyzing the motives, experiences and impact of returners in a wide range of locations over four centuries. -- .

The book explores the previously under-researched patterns and practices that fashioned a modern consumer society, charting the evolving habits among English men and women across three centuries. -- .

This book explores changing notions of political and personal virtue in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and offers a new account of masculinity and citizenship in English culture. -- .

This book is a scholarly and lively account of the interactions between art and ethnography in Paris in the pre-WW2 period, drawing upon a diverse range of primary and archival materials: non-western art, anthropological expeditions, museum displays and works by artists in Paris. -- .

Global Politics in the Information Age presents a provocative and wide-ranging introduction to the notion that information technologies are creating new formations of power, control and resistance across the planet. -- .

Provides a critical introduction to the key theoretical developments in contemporary Irish cultural criticism since the mid-1980s. Draws on aspects of the work of all the critics considered to advance a new theory of the representation of subjectivity in Irish writing. -- .

Ireland's international reputation has suffered periodic fluctuation, from model case of rapid development, to exemplar of political and economic mismanagement. This book argues that both perspectives overlook more important and persistent features of Irish political life. -- .

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. -- .

An annotated anthology of the ever-fascinating tradition of Decadence in 19th-century writing, including key manifestos, critical declarations, poems, stories, critical responses, parodies, and ancient Roman antecedents. the book forms an essential resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and for others fascinated by Decadent writing. -- .

This book is about trials, civil and criminal, ecclesiastical and secular, in England and Europe between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries, providing a rounded view of trials conducted according to different procedures within contrasting legal systems, including English common law and Roman canon law. -- .

The first study of how a group of diverse women spread, built and sustained a national network of branches supporting the militant suffrage campaign in Britain in the years before the First World War -- .

David Jones has translated two important collections of short stories from the late thirteenth century that were assembled in the British Isles. The collections of narratives depict working daily life as well as offering a moral and theological insight into medieval life overall. -- .

In this, the first academic text devoted to The Smiths, writers from a range of perspectives set out to consider the cultural significance and enduring appeal of one of the most influential and controversial bands of recent decades. -- .

Constitutions and political theory is a concise textbook offering a omprehensive analysis of the principal-agent problematic inherent in all forms of politics. It shows how rule of law institutions come in two forms that restrain opportunism in politics. And it traces the principal-agent perspective back to constitutionalism in political thought. -- .

With its dialect and striking modern icons such as the Angel of the North, the north east has been described as England's most distinctive region. This study reveals the impact of the new cultural institutions that emerged after 1945 upon this region with deeply rooted vernacular traditions.

A critical edition of a modern Mexican classic, Elena Poniatowska's Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela, with notes, vocabulary, a critical introduction and temas de debate. -- .

The first book to survey, in comparative form, the transmission of imperial ideas to the public in six European countries. It provides fascinating parallel studies of France, Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Italy, examining the media and the content through which events in colonial empires were broadcast into the popular domain. -- .

This book tells the fascinating story of the Butlin and Warner holiday camp chains that emerged in the 1930s. The camps became a cultural phenomenon deeply enmeshed in the social and cultural history of twentieth century Britain. -- .

From a little before ten years of age Brian McFarlane became addicted to stories told on the screen, and the mere fact that he had difficulty in getting to see the films he wanted - or any for that matter - only made them seem more alluring. This title is a deeply-felt account of a lifetime's addiction.

This is the first academic book ever written on women and body hair. The study argues that body hair plays a central role in constructing masculinity and femininity and sexual and cultural identitiesThe chapters each analyse through a specific focus how body hair underpins ideas of the 'cultural' and 'natural' in western culture. -- .

The unorthodox imagination in late medieval Britain explores how medieval people responded to images, stories, beliefs and practices which were at odds with the normative world view, from the heretical and subversive to the marvellous and exotic -- .

The so-called Travels of Sir John Mandeville (c. 1356) was one of the most popular books of the late Middle Ages, highly influencing European perceptions of exotic lands and peoples at the onset of the Age of Discoveries. -- .

Harriet Martineau: Authorship, Society and Empire is a new book of essays by distinguished US and UK scholars on this most influential and prolific of Victorian writers and thinkers. -- .