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The volume explores the shaping of 'everyday health' in different contexts since 1950. It shows how different aspects of identity affected experiences of health and wellbeing.Author: Senior Lecturer...

Survival Capitalism is a cultural history of the 1980s financial revolution. It ranges in scope across the Thatcher government, the Bank of England, London Stock Exchange and member firms, and...

This book presents a cultural history of Promethean Horror in the modern age, tracing the rise of a sub-genre of gothic fiction in the twentieth-century and examining post-modern revisions of...

This book examines key moments of violent social unrest in the twentieth century United States. Investigating the centrality of constructions of gender to American racism, it asks how African and...

Author: Sam IllingworthPublisher: Manchester University PressPublication Date: Nov 09, 2020Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1526152266ISBN-13: 9781526152268

Eight teams share their research about live performing arts during the COVID-19 pandemic, reflecting on digital innovations and analogue adaptations in dance and theatre, accessibility and...

This book is an incisive exploration of the emotional politics of migration and borders. It dives into the intricate interplay between emotions and migration governance, revealing how affect works to...

After the end studies the enduring legacy of Cold War culture in current debates and concerns around risk, security, borders, environmental justice, inequality, and apocalypse. The chapters trace...

Drawing on ethnographic research in salsa classes and oral histories this book details the everyday practices of femininity, heterosexuality and 'new' intimacies among women in midlife. Challenging...

This book offers a new study of Hobbes's reception among seventeenth- and eighteenth- century deists and freethinkers, showing how influential Hobbes was for anticlerical thinking through a close...

Artificial intelligence and the future of warfare sketches a clear and sobering picture of the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the digitized battlefield, broadening our...

The authoritative sequel to Female Fortune, continuing the diaries of Anne Lister up to 1838, when she was at her most powerful.Author: Jill LiddingtonPublisher: Manchester University...

This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution. Using a vast range of sources, it argues that the poor...

This biography of Barbara Comyns reveals a twentieth-century author whose life was as extraordinary as her novels. Hundreds of unpublished letters reveal an occasionally desperate but resourceful and...

Bartholomew Fair (Revels Student Edition): By Ben Jonson (Revels Student Editions)Author: Ben JonsonPublisher: Manchester University PressPublication Date: Nov 01, 2000Number of Pages: 208...

Beckett's afterlives is the first book-length study dedicated to posthumous adaptations of Beckett's oeuvre. This collection analyses the remarkable diversity of creative engagements across different...

This is the first in-depth account of the band Soft Cell. Written by a leading music journalist and based on extensive interviews, it traces the band's remarkably varied roots, from British seaside...

Bestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon offers a comparative critique of the development of the 'modern canon' of medieval literature across European and Middle Eastern medieval...

This book analyses the world of selective reproduction - interventions that influence reproductive outcomes and allow only some pregnancies to be borne to fruition - by a critical analysis of three...

(B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial violence and irregular immigration is anti-colonial resistance. In announcing itself as postcolonial...

This study uses examinations of Exeter riddles, Old English religious verse and Beowulf to formulate the poetics of spolia - creative transformations of martial and architectural plunder serving to...

This book recounts a little-known history of an estimated 2,000 children born to black GIs and white British women in World War II. Stories from over 50 of these children, alongside many photographs,...

This book delves into an in-depth discussion around dress and languages and how they have shaped the changes in the British Bangladeshi Muslim community in the East End of London.Author: Fatima...

With the military seizing overt power in Egypt, Cairo's grand and dramatic urban reshaping during and after 2011 is reflected upon under the lens of a smaller story narrating everyday interactions of...

Celebrities, heroes and champions examines the popular politician in British and Irish society from the Napoleonic Wars to the Second Reform Act. Covering a range of political movements, it offers a...

This book explores the intricacies of contemporary children's rights on a global scale, scrutinizing the challenges they face from a multidisciplinary perspective.Author: Salvador Santino F Regilme...

Author: Neil ArmstrongPublisher: Manchester University PressPublication Date: Oct 06, 2020Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1526149931ISBN-13: 9781526149930

West Indies legend Sir Clyde Walcott was one of the greatest cricketers of all time, but he was also an important administrator and activist. This first biography offers a detailed examination of his...

This book explores how the concept of colonialism can help us to understand the past and present of Antarctica, and how in turn Antarctica may illuminate and rethink our understanding of colonialism...

The Old English remedies for women's reproductive ailments gesture to contemporary notions of bodily autonomy. Close examination of the remedies for menstruation, fertility, pregnancy, stillbirth,...