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Founded in 1904, Manchester University Press is the third largest university press in England. Manchester University Press has a worldwide reputation for making innovative and high-quality scholarship available to the widest possible readership in both print and electronic formats, with particular strengths in the Humanities and Social Sciences. We currently publish 150 new books a year and manage a portfolio of 17 journals and online resources, many of which are published on behalf of or in collaboration with learned societies and institutions.
Books in JSTOR from Manchester University Press
339 Books in JSTOR Copyright Date
Abandoning historical conflict?: Former political prisoners and reconciliation in Northern Ireland 2010
Acceptable words: Essays on the poetry of Geoffrey Hill 2005
Across the Margins: Cultural Identity and Change in the Atlantic Archipelago 2002
Adapting Philosophy: Jean Baudrillard and "The Matrix Trilogy" 2009
Aesthetics and subjectivity OPEN ACCESS 2003
After the new social democracy: Social welfare for the 21st century 2003
The age of Obama: The changing place of minorities in British and American society 2010
Alan Clarke 2005
American Government in Ireland, 1790-1913: a history of the US consular service 2010
Amitav Ghosh 2007
The ancient Greeks at war 2007
André Téchiné 2007
Anglo-German relations during the Labour governments 1964-70: NATO strategy, détente and European integration 2007
Anglo-Jewry since 1066: Place, locality and memory 2009
Anthony Asquith 2005
The arc and the machine: Narrative and new media 2007
A.S. Byatt: Critical storytelling 2010
The Asian Financial Crisis: Crisis, reform and recovery 2003
Authority and society in Nantes during the French Wars of Religion, 1558–1598 2006
The BBC and national identity in Britain, 1922-53 2010
Beat sound, Beat vision: The Beat spirit and popular song 2007
Beckett on screen: The television Plays 2009
Beckett's Dantes: Intertextuality in the fiction and criticism 2005
Between growth and security: Swedish social democracy from a strong society to a third way 2006
Between two unions: Europeanisation and Scottish devolution: Europeanisation and Scottish devolution 2005
Beyond devolution and decentralisation: Building regional capacity in Wales and Brittany 2006
Beyond hegemony: Towards a new philosophy of political legitimacy 2005
Beyond representation: Television drama and the politics and aesthetics of identity 2006
The biopolitics of the war on terror: Life struggles, liberal modernity and the defence of logistical societies 2006
Black Bartholomew's Day: Preaching, polemic and Restoration nonconformity 2007
The Blair identity: Leadership and foreign policy 2009
Brave community: The Digger Movement in the English Revolution 2007
Britain and Africa Under Blair: In pursuit of the good state 2011
British Asian fiction: Twenty-first-century voices 2010
British Cinema in the 1950s: A celebration 2003
The British in Rural France: Lifestyle migration and the ongoing quest for a better way of life 2011
British liberal internationalism, 1880–1930: Making progress? 2009
British Military Service Tribunals, 1916-18: 'A very much abused body of men' 2011
British national identity and opposition to membership of Europe, 1961-63: The anti-Marketeers 2009
The British New Wave: A certain tendency? 2006
The British people and the League of Nations: Democracy, citizenship and internationalism, c.1918–45 2011
The Bush administration, sex and the moral agenda 2007
Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D'Aguiar: Representations of slavery 2011
Castles and colonists: An archaeology of Elizabethan Ireland 2010
Catholic Literature and Secularisation in France and England, 1880-1914 2011
Chagos Islanders in Mauritius and the UK: Forced displacement and onward migration 2011
Changing Anarchism: Anarchist Theory and Practice in a Global Age 2004
The character of English rural society: Earls Colne, 1550–1750 2007
Chartism: A new history 2007
Christianity and democratisation: From pious subjects to critical participants 2009
Church, nation and race: Catholics and antisemitism in Germany and England, 1918–45 2012
The cinema of Álex de la Iglesia 2007
The civil service and the revolution in Ireland 1912-1938: 'Shaking the blood-stained hand of Mr Collins' 2008
Climate change and the oil industry: Common problem, different strategies 2003
Colonial connections, 1815–45: Patronage, the information revolution and colonial government 2005
Co-memory and Melancholia: Israelis memorialising the Palestininan Nakba 2010
Community and identity: The making of modern Gibraltar since 1704 2009
Conrad's Marlow: Narrative and death in 'Youth', Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim and Chance 2007
The Conservative Party and the Extreme Right 1945-1975 2011
Conservative thinkers: The key contributors to the political thought of the modern Conservative Party 2009
The Conservatives in crisis OPEN ACCESS 2003
Contemporary Violence: Postmodern war in Kosovo and Chechnya 2010
Contesting home defence: Men, women and the Home Guard in the Second World War 2007
Crimes Against Humanity: Birth of a concept 2011
Crisis music: The cultural politics of Rock Against Racism 2009
The Crisis of Theory: E.P. Thompson, the new left and postwar British politics 2011
Crowds and popular politics in early modern England 2006
Cultural warfare and trust: Fighting the Mafia in Palermo 2008
The Culture of Diplomacy: Britain in Europe, c.1750-1830 2010
The culture of toleration in diverse societies: Reasonable tolerance 2003
Culture on drugs: Narco-cultural studies of high modernity 2006
Cultures of violence: Lynching and Racial Killing in South Africa and the American South 2009
Curbing the spread of nuclear weapons 2005
Cyberprotest: Environmental activism online 2003
Daniel Calparsoro 2009
David Malouf 2007
Deism in Enlightenment England: Theology, politics, and Newtonian public science 2009
Democracy in crisis: Violence, alterity, community 2009
Democratization through the looking-glass 2003
Destination Europe: The political and economic growth of a continent 2003
Devolution and the Scottish Conservatives: Banal activism, electioneering and the politics of irrelevance 2011
Devolution in the UK 2009
Direct rule and the governance of Northern Ireland 2009
Disclosed poetics: Beyond landscape and lyricism 2007
Divine love: Luce Irigaray, Women, Gender, and Religion 2006
Domestic and international trials, 1700-2000: The trial in history, volume 2 2003
Domestic life and domestic tragedy in early modern England: The material life of the household 2006
Doris Lessing 2010
Doubting sex: Inscriptions, bodies and selves in nineteenth-century hermaphrodite case histories 2012
Douglas Coupland 2007
Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy and the Victorian Feminist Movement: The biography of an insurgent woman 2011
Empire and nation-building in the Caribbean: Barbados, 1937-66 2010
The end of Irish history?: Reflections on the Celtic Tiger 2003
The end of the Irish Poor Law?: Welfare and healthcare reform in revolutionary and independent Ireland 2015
The English Republican tradition and eighteenth-century France: Between the ancients and the moderns 2010
The Enlightenment and religion: The myths of modernity 2003
Environmental politics in the European Union: Policy-making, implementation and patterns of multi-level governance 2007
Equal subjects, unequal rights: Indigenous people in British settler colonies, 1830–1910 2003
Equality and the British Left: A study in progressive political thought, 1900-64 2007
EU development cooperation: From model to symbol 2004
The European Union and culture: Between economic regulation and European cultural policy 2007
The European Union and the accommodation of Basque difference in Spain 2008
The European Union, counter terrorism and police co-operation, 1991–2007: Unsteady foundations? 2010
Europeanisation and new patterns of governance in Ireland 2009
The Europeanisation of Conflict Resolutions: Regional integration and conflicts from the 1950s to the 21st century 2011
The Europeanisation of Whitehall: UK central government and the European Union 2009
Explaining local government: Local government in Britain since 1800 2007
The Extreme Right in Western Europe: Success or failure? 2005
Federalism and democratisation in Russia OPEN ACCESS 2002
Female imperialism and national identity: Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire 2002
The feminine public sphere: Middle-class women and civic life in Scotland, c. 1870-1914 2009
Fifteen into One?: The European Union and its member states 2003
Fighting fascism: the British Left and the rise of fascism, 1919–39 2010
Flagships of imperialism: The P&O Company and the Politics of Empire from its origins to 1867 2006
Food, risk and politics: Scare, scandal and crisis - insights into the risk politics of food safety 2009
Foreign players and football supporters: The Old Firm, Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain 2012
The forgotten French: Exiles in the British Isles, 1940–44 2003
The formation of Croatian national identity: A centuries-old dream? 2003
Fragmenting Modernism: Ford Madox Ford, the novel and the Great War 2002
Francis Bacon's the New Atlantis: New Interdisciplinary Essays 2002
French origins of English tragedy 2010
The French party system OPEN ACCESS 2003
From victory to Vichy: Veterans in inter-war France 2012
Gay men and the Left in post-war Britain: How the personal got political 2007
Gender and colonial space 2005
Gender and housing in Soviet Russia: Private life in a public space 2010
Gender and the Liberal Democrats: Representing women 2011
George Fox and Early Quaker Culture 2011
George III: King and politicians 1760–1770 2002
Germany, pacifism and peace enforcement 2006
The Ghost Story: A cultural history 2010
Global citizen and European republic: Irish foreign policy in transition 2006
Global justice networks: Geographies of transnational solidarity 2009
Global warming policy in Japan and Britain: Interactions between institutions and issue characteristics 2006
Globalisation and Ideology in Britain: Neoliberalism, free trade and the global economy 2011
Globalisation Contested: An international political economy of work 2002
Globalizing democracy: Power, legitimacy and the interpretation of democratic ideas 2008
Greenery: Ecocritical readings of late medieval English literature 2007
Groups, representation and democracy: Between promise and practice 2010
Half the battle: Civilian morale in Britain during the Second World War 2002
Henri-Georges Clouzot 2007
History and memory 2007
History, heritage, and colonialism: Historical consciousness, Britishness, and cultural identity in New Zealand, 1870–1940 2015
A history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party: Democratic socialism and sectarianism 2009
A History of the University of Manchester, 1973-90 2004
Honecker's Children: Youth and patriotism in East(ern) Germany, 1979-2002 2007
Horseracing and the British 1919–30 2003
Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution: Populism and democracy in a globalised age 2009
Human Rights and the Borders of Suffering: The Promotion of Human Rights in International Politics 2002
Humphrey Jennings 2010
Iain Sinclair 2007
Ian McEwan 2007
The ideology of the extreme right OPEN ACCESS 2000
Ignorance: Literature and agnoiology 2009
Immigration and social cohesion in the Republic of Ireland 2011
Imperial citizenship: Empire and the question of belonging 2006
Imperial spaces: Placing the Irish and Scots in colonial Australia 2011
Implementing international environmental agreements in Russia OPEN ACCESS 2003
Impostures in early modern England: Representations and perceptions of fraudulent identities 2009
In the wake of the great rebellion: Republicanism, agrarianism and banditry in Ireland after 1798 2008
Inclusion, exclusion and the governance of European security 2007
India in a globalized world 2006
Indigenous peoples and Human rights 2002
Innovation by demand: An interdisciplinary approach to the study of demand and its role in innovation 2002
In/security in Colombia: Writing political identities in the Democratic Security Policy 2010
"Insubordinate Irish": Travellers in the Text 2011
The international dimension of the failed Algerian transition: Democracy betrayed? 2009
Interpreting the Labour Party: Approaches to Labour politics and history 2003
The IRA 1956-69: Rethinking the Republic 2011
Irish nationalism and European integration: The official redefinition of the island of Ireland 2009
Irish regiments in the Great War: Discipline and Morale 2003
Irish women in medicine, c.1880s-1920s: Origins, education and careers 2012
The Israeli response to Jewish extremism and violence OPEN ACCESS 2002
Jack Rosenthal 2009
James Kelman 2007
Jews and other foreigners: Manchester and the rescue of the victims of European Fascism, 1933–40 2011
John Donne's Performances: Sermons, poems, Letters and devotions 2010
John Hume and the revision of Irish nationalsm 2010
Jonathan Lethem 2012
Judicial tribunals in England and Europe, 1200–1700: The trial in history, volume I 2003
Julian Barnes 2011
Julio Medem 2007
The Kosovo crisis and the evolution of a post-Cold War European security: The Evolution of Post Cold War European Security 2003
The Labour governments 1964-1970 vol 1: Labour and cultural change 2003
The Labour Party and the world, volume 1: The evolution of Labour's foreign policy, 1900–51 2003
The Labour Party and the World - volume 2: Labour's foreign policy since 1951 2011
Labours old and new: The parliamentary right of the British Labour Party 1970-79 and the roots of New Labour 2008
The Lancashire witches: Histories and stories 2002
The Länder and German federalism OPEN ACCESS 2003
The Last Taboo: Women and body hair 2006
Laudian and royalist polemic in seventeenth-century England: The career and writings of Peter Heylyn 2007
Leading the localities: Executive mayors in English local governance 2006
Leisure, citizenship and working-class men in Britain, 1850–1940 2005
Limiting Institutions?: The challenge of Eurasian security governance 2013
Limits of Horror: Technology, bodies, Gothic 2008
Living in sin: Cohabiting as husband and wife in nineteenth-century England 2008
Louis XIV and the Parlements: The assertion of royal authority 2002
Louise Erdrich 2010
Love, Intimacy and Power: Marriage and patriarchy in Scotland, 1650-1850 2011
Luther's lives: Two contemporary accounts of Martin Luther 2002
Mainstreaming Gender, Democratizing The State?: Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women 2003
Male witches in early modern Europe OPEN ACCESS 2003
The "Malleus Maleficarum" and the construction of witchcraft: Theology and popular belief 2003
Managing Europe from Home: The changing face of European policy-making under Blair and Ahern 2011
Managing labour migration in Europe: Ideas, knowledge and policy change 2010
Mapping European Security After Kosovo OPEN ACCESS 2002
Market relations and the competitive process 2002
Maurice Pialat 2006
Maxine Hong Kingston 2006
Memory and popular film OPEN ACCESS 2003
Michael Logue and the Catholic Church in Ireland, 1879–1925 2009
Michael Ondaatje 2009
Might, right, prosperity and consent: Representative democracy and the international economy 1919-2001 2008
Mike Leigh 2007
A minority and the state: Travellers in Britain in the twentieth century 2008
Modern motherhood: Women and family in England, 1945–2000 2012
Modern women on trial: Sexual transgression in the age of the flapper 2013
More than a game: The computer game as fictional form 2003
'More work! Less pay!': Rebellion and repression in Italy, 1972–77 2009
Mothers and meaning on the early modern English stage 2010
Munitions of the mind: A history of propaganda 2003
Music and the Sociological Gaze: Art worlds and cultural production 2006
Myth and materiality in a woman’s world: Shetland 1800–2000 2005
National Missile Defence and the politics of US identity: A poststructural critique 2008
The naval war film: Genre, history and national cinema 2007
Negotiating sovereignty and human rights: International society and the International Criminal Court 2009
The new aestheticism OPEN ACCESS 2003
New Labour and the New World Order: Britain's role in the war on terror 2011
Noblewomen, aristocracy and power in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm OPEN ACCESS 2003
Object matters: Condoms, adolescence and time 2008
Odoevsky's four pathways into modern fiction: A comparative study 2010
On Anachronism 2010
The origins of the Scottish Reformation 2006
The other empire: Metropolis, India and progress in the colonial imagination 2003
Pan-Gemanism and the Austrofascist State, 1933-38 2011
Parliamentary reform at Westminster 2009
Parliaments, Nations and Identities in Britain and Ireland, 1660-185 2003
Passing into the present: Contemporary American fiction of racial and gender passing 2010
Paul Auster 2007
Paving the Empire Road: BBC television and West Indian immigration 2011
Peace, war and party politics: The Conservatives and Europe, 1846-59 2007
Peter Carey 2003
Philip Roth 2007
Piercing the bamboo curtain: Tentative bridge-building to China during the Johnson years 2008
Playing for time: Stories of lost children, ghosts and the endangered present in contemporary theatre 2007
Political concepts OPEN ACCESS 2003
Political Corruption in Ireland, 1922-2010: A crooked harp? 2012
The political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The impossibility of reason 2003
Political responsibility and the European Union 2008
The politics of alcohol: A history of the drink question in England 2009
The politics of Englishness 2007
The politics of participation: From Athens to e-democracy 2007
The politics of war reporting: Authority, authenticity and morality 2011
The politics of writing: Julia Kavanagh, 1824-77 2009
The poor in England 1700-1850: An economy of makeshifts 2003
Popular culture and working-class taste in Britain, 1930-39: A round of cheap diversions? 2010
Postcolonial contraventions: Cultural readings of race, imperialism and transnationalism OPEN ACCESS 2003
Potentials of Disorder: Explaining Conflict and Stability in the Caucasus and in the Former Yugoslavia 2003
Precarious childhood in post-independence Ireland 2009
Producing globalisation: Politics of discourse and institutions in Greece and Ireland 2009
Qualities of food OPEN ACCESS 2004
R. K. Narayan 2007
R. S. Thomas: Identity, environment, deity 2003
Race and empire: Eugenics in colonial Kenya 2007
Reading and politics in early modern England: The mental world of a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman 2010
Reading Ireland: Print, reading and social change in early modern Ireland 2005
The Reality of Film: Theories of filmic reality. 2011
Redefining Security in the Middle East OPEN ACCESS 2002
Re-evaluating Irish national security policy: Affordable threats? 2009
Refugee women in Britain and France 2010
Regulatory Quality in Europe: Concepts, measures and policy processes 2007
Repeal and revolution: 1848 in Ireland 2009
Republican learning: John Toland and the crisis of Christian culture, 1696-1722 2003
Resisting history: Religious transcendence and the invention of the unconscious 2007
Rethinking equality: The challenge of equal citizenship 2006
Re-visioning myth: Modern and contemporary drama by women 2011
Rhetoric and the Writing of History, 400-1500 2011
Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats: Unfinished business 2011
Robert Southwell: Snow in Arcadia: redrawing the English lyric landscape, 1586-95 2006
Romania and the European Union: How the weak vanquished the strong 2009
Salman Rushdie 2007
Samuel Beckett and the primacy of love OPEN ACCESS 2002
The Scots in South Africa: Ethnicity, identity, gender and race, 1772-1914 2007
Second Sight: The visionary imagination in late Victorian literature 2009
The secret vice: Masturbation in Victorian fiction and medical culture 2008
Security in a greater Europe: The possibility of a pan-European approach 2008
Shakespeare and laughter: A cultural history 2008
Shakespeare and Spenser: Attractive opposites 2008
Sir Robert Filmer (1588–1653) and the patriotic monarch: Patriarchalism in seventeenth-century political thought 2012
Social change and everyday life in Ireland, 1850–1922 2007
The social construction of Swedish neutrality: Challenges to Swedish identity and sovereignty 2006
Socio-ideological fantasy and the Northern Ireland conflict: The Other side 2006
Spanish Identity in the Age of nations 2011
Special Relationships: Anglo-American Affinities and Antagonisms 1854-1936 2002
Spilling the beans: Eating, cooking, reading and writing in British women's fiction, 1770-1830 2009
Spoken Word: Oral culture in Britain, 1500–1850 2002
Sports law and policy in the European Union OPEN ACCESS 2003
State of play: Contemporary 'high-end' TV drama 2007
Stories of women: Gender and narrative in the postcolonial nation OPEN ACCESS 2005
The structure of modern cultural theory 2008
The subject of love: Hélène Cixous and the feminine divine 2009
Supranational citizenship 2006
Sweden and ecological governance: Straddling the fence 2004
Taking the long view: a study of longitudinal documentary 2010
Theorising Media: Power, Form and Subjectivity 2011
Theory and reform in the European Union 2003
The Third Way and beyond: Criticisms, futures and alternatives 2004
This England: Essays on the English nation and Commonwealth in the sixteenth century 2011
The tide of democracy: Shipyard workers and social relations in Britain, 1870-1950 2010
Time and world politics: Thinking the present 2008
Tony Garnett 2007
Towards a regional political class?: Professional politicians and regional institutions in Catalonia and Scotland 2009
Treading the bawds: Actresses and playwrights on the Late Stuart stage 2006
Troy Kennedy Martin 2007
'The truest form of patriotism': Pacifist feminism in Britain, 1870–1902 2003
Truth recovery in Northern Ireland: Critically interpreting the past 2009
Turkey: facing a new millennium: Coping with intertwined conflicts 2003
The United Nations Democracy Agenda: A conceptual history 2011
The United Nations, intra-state peacekeeping and normative change OPEN ACCESS 2003
The United States Congress OPEN ACCESS 2003
Unpacking international organisations: The dynamics of compound bureaucracies 2010
Using Europe: territorial party strategies in a multi-level system 2010
Vanishing for the vote: Suffrage, citizenship and the battle for the census 2014
The Victorian soldier in Africa OPEN ACCESS 2004
Victorians and the Virgin Mary: Religion and gender in England 1830 - 1885 2008
War and welfare: British prisoner of war families, 1939-45 2009
War crimes and crimes against humanity in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 2009
A war of individuals: Bloomsbury attitudes to the Great War 2002
Watching the World: Screen documentary and audiences 2007
West Indian intellectuals in Britain 2003
Who the Devil Taught Thee So Much Italian?': Italian language learning and literary imitation in early modern England 2005
Witchcraft narratives in Germany: Rothenburg, 1561–1652 2003
Women and ETA: The gender politics of radical Basque nationalism 2007
Women and the shaping of British Methodism: Persistent preachers, 1807-1907 2009
Women, marriage and property in wealthy landed families in Ireland, 1750–1850 2008
Women’s writing in contemporary France: New writers, new literatures in the 1990s 2002
World Bank Group interactions with environmentalists: Changing international organisation identities 2010
The wounds of nations: Horror cinema, historical trauma and national identity 2008
Writing Local History 2007
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