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This book examines the phenomenon of infanticide in Ireland from 1850 to 1900. It is based on a large sample of 4,645 individual cases of infant murder, attempted infanticide and concealment of birth. Through a variety of sources, attitudes towards the crime of infanticide and women accused of the offence are revealed. Num Pages: 304 pages, Halftones, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; HBTB; JFSP1; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 28. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719088209
- ISBN
- 9780719088209
Condition: New
€ 151.48
€ 151.48
Examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent, including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH5; HRH; JFC; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 25. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719087400
- ISBN
- 9780719087400
Condition: New
€ 151.31
€ 151.31
Explores Franco-Maghrebi crossings in contemporary art, giving particular attention to performance, video, photography and installation. It is the first book to focus on postcolonial approaches to art in France and the wider French-speaking world. Series Editor(s): Jones, Amelia; Meskimmon, Marsha. Series: Rethinking Art's Histories. Num Pages: 256 pages, Halftones, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DDF; AFK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719087103
- ISBN
- 9780719087103
Condition: New
€ 151.63
€ 151.63
Framing the moron details the variety of dehumanizing and fear-inducing rhetoric employed by the American eugenic movement during the early twentieth century, which led to tens of thousands of innocent people being involuntarily sterilized, forced into institutions, and otherwise maltreated. Series Editor(s): Anderson, Julie; Schalick, Walton. Series: Disability History. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFFG; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719087097
- ISBN
- 9780719087097
Condition: New
€ 150.87
€ 150.87
This groundbreaking analysis of nineteenth-century European clinical case histories of hermaphrodites shows how sex changed from an outward appearance inscribed in a social body to something to be found deep inside body and self. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations, black & white|Tables. BIC Classification: JFSJ5. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 160 x 239 x 28. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719086908
- ISBN
- 9780719086908
Condition: New
€ 152.33
€ 152.33
This book explores the Papal Inquisition in Modena and the status of Jews in an early modern Italian duchy. Its purpose is to deepen existing insights into the role of the former and thus lead to a better understanding of how the tribunal assumed jurisdiction over a practicing Jewish community in the seventeenth century. Series: Studies in Early Modern European History. Num Pages: 336 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLH; HBTB; JFFP; JFSR1. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719085192
- ISBN
- 9780719085192
Condition: New
€ 152.06
€ 152.06
Marks a major new contribution to the emerging field of comic studies and the growing literature on superheroes. Using a range of critical theorists the book examines superheroes as sovereigns, addressing amongst other things the complex treatment of law and violence, legitimacy and authority. Num Pages: 208 pages. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719085048
- ISBN
- 9780719085048
Condition: New
€ 151.51
€ 151.51
Examines the networks that linked academics across the British settler world in the age of 'Victorian' globalization. Drawing on extensive archival research, remaps the intellectual geographies of Britain and its empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Series Editor(s): Thompson, Andrew; MacKenzie, John. Series: Studies in Imperialism. Num Pages: 256 pages, Tables, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTQ; JFCX; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719085024
- ISBN
- 9780719085024
Condition: New
€ 151.94
€ 151.94
Provides a ground breaking and unique analysis of the development of Public Private Partnerships internationally, with a detailed focus on the rationale behind their introduction and outcomes in Ireland. Series Editor(s): Kitchin, Rob. Series: Irish Society. Num Pages: 272 pages, Tables, unspecified|Line drawings, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JPP. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 26. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719084874
- ISBN
- 9780719084874
Condition: New
€ 151.77
€ 151.77
This book represents the first anthropological study of fiction reading and the first ethnography of British literary culture. It is the outcome of long-term engagement with a set of solitary readers who belong to a single literary society. Series Editor(s): Smith, Alexander. Series: New Ethnographies. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK; JHM. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719084546
- ISBN
- 9780719084546
Condition: New
€ 151.42
€ 151.42
Presents a study which is a major appraisal of the contributions of German-speaking emigres to British cinema from the late 1920s to the end of World War II. Through a series of film analyses and case studies, this title challenges notions of a self-sufficient British national cinema. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; APF; JFSL. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719083099
- ISBN
- 9780719083099
Condition: New
€ 151.19
€ 151.19
Explores the work of a number of key writers and important books within the academic disciplines of politics and international relations. It revisits and re-evaluates some of the landmark books, and assesses the contribution of some of the most influential writers who have played a significant role in the development of these disciplines. Editor(s): Theakston, Kevin. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: JP. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719083037
- ISBN
- 9780719083037
Condition: New
€ 162.61
€ 162.61
The first full length account of the 1979 'winter of discontent' Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719082474
- ISBN
- 9780719082474
Condition: New
€ 151.42
€ 151.42
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719081460
- ISBN
- 9780719081460
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.63
€ 149.63
This book provides a comprehensive, detailed and critical examination of Britain's role in the US-led war on terror. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JPS. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719081361
- ISBN
- 9780719081361
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.28
€ 151.28
Lectures and research students in cultural history, medieval and early modern studies and literary studies Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, 5 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSBD; JFCA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 145 x 224 x 27. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719077999
- ISBN
- 9780719077999
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.98
€ 151.98
Paperback. Examines some of the philosophical and theoretical issues underlying the "democratic project" which increasingly dominates the fields of comparative development and international relations. This title is suitable for those in international development studies, as well as political theorists with an interest in applied ethics. Series: Perspectives on Democratic Practice. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JPF; JPHV. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719076398
- ISBN
- 9780719076398
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.44
€ 38.44
This book outlines and evaluates the political thought of the Conservative Party through a detailed examination of its principal thinkers from Harold Macmillan to the present. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JPL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 240 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719075087
- ISBN
- 9780719075087
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 151.22
€ 151.22
The most up to date account of the devolved government in Northern Ireland. Series: Devolution. Num Pages: 320 pages, Tables, black & white|Line drawings, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 31. Weight in Grams: 682.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719074363
- ISBN
- 9780719074363
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 152.29
€ 152.29
Paperback. The first comprehensive treatment of Louise Erdrich's writing in all its diversity. This book offers searching analysis of the common themes and contexts across Erdrich's poetry, prose, memoirs, and children's fiction. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSJ1; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 219 x 14. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719074271
- ISBN
- 9780719074271
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.03
€ 38.03