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At the end of the 1970s, Manchester seemed to be sliding into the dustbin of history. Today the city is an international destination for culture and sport, and one of the fastest-growing urban regions in Europe. This book offers a first-hand account of what happened in between. Arriving in Manchester as a wide-eyed student in 1979, Andy Spinoza went on to establish the arts magazine City Life before working for the Manchester Evening News and ...

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Royals on Tour explores visits by European monarchs and other members of royal families to overseas colonies, and by indigenous royals from the colonies to Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It presents case studies of travel by royals from Britain, France, Portugal, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium to the overseas possessions (and, in some cases, potential possessions) of their countries, and of visits to Europe ...

This book brings to light the lives, experiences and feelings of a range of children born into British world missionary families. Missionary children were an important but relatively hidden part of the modern Protestant missionary movement. As 'empire citizens', their lives were shaped by both political and religious contexts or imperatives. Taking a comparative approach that includes children from Britain (especially Scotland), settler societ...

Feminist mental health activism in England, c.1968-1995 providesthe first in-depth examination of feminist mental health activism in England. Drawing on original oral history interviews and case studies of previously unexplored feminist initiatives, it charts how members of the Women's Liberation Movement initially rejected Freudian psychoanalysis, before employing a range of therapeutic approaches to better understand themselves and politics....

An innovative and timely book that makes a genuinely thought-provoking intervention in both medieval studies and the study of the long history of race and racism.'>'Kao's ambitious readings integrate a range of theoretical influences - from psychoanalysis to biopolitics to cuteness studies -- into literary close reading, all to approach the complexities of medieval race.'>'A must read for anyone interested in medieval literature, critical whit...

This book examines the development of the historiography on the African American freedom struggle from the 1890s to the present day.

This book radically reconceptualises Italian post-unification visual culture by exploring an element that has, until now, been systematically ignored: its fraught entanglement with the Baroque. Evoking a glorious past - the Roman Empire, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance - played a key role in constructing a common Italian identity following the country's unification in 1861. But the Baroque was considered too extravagant, kitsch, and whimsical...

This book examines the development of the historiography on the African American freedom struggle from the 1890s to the present day.

Examining sovereignty as a fundamental and contested concept at the heart of European politics and constitutionalism since early modern times, this book addresses the concept of sovereignty as a sociological topic. The history of sovereignty tells a tale of absolute power, and over the years has referred to God, the King, the people, the nation and the state. It has constantly been at the centre of controversy, revolution and war. Just as cent...

James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. This edition brings together all of the articles published in this year's volume.

In popularizing the term 'speaking truth to power', now widely used throughout the world, Michel Foucault established the basis upon which a new ethics can be constructed. This is the thesis that Mark Olssen advances in Constructing Foucault's ethics. Olssen not only 'speaks truth' to existing moral and ethical theories that have dominated western philosophy since Plato, but also shows how, by using Foucault's insights, an alternative ethical ...

Men and masculinities provides a critical overview of ongoing debates in the history of masculinities and the making of men's lives and ideas of masculinity in Britain between the 1890s and present day.It proposes a new agenda, urging histories to reflect on the enduring influence of patriarchy in contemporary Britain.

This book explores the relationship between visual artists and various disciplines of knowledge from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. The essays gathered here show how scientific and spiritual theories informed the evolution of abstraction, how psychoanalysis influenced the meanings and methods of Surrealism, and how, in the second half of the century, artists made increasingly frequent and sophisticated incursions in...

This is the first comprehensive history of goth music and culture. John Robb explores the origins and legacy of this enduring scene, which has its roots in the post-punk era. Drawing on his own experience as a musician and journalist, Robb covers the style, the music and the clubs that spawned goth culture, alongside political and social conditions. Reaching back further into history, he examines key events and movements that frame the ideas o...

In this brilliant and detailed text, Mariam Motamedi Fraser offers an overdue and unflinching intervention into the study of "species" as a political category, its implicit anthropocentricism, and attendant material and epistemic violence. Importantly, Dog politics points readers towards a fundamental and critical question for animal studies and posthumanism: "What does it mean to actually work towards freedom for the animals we are entangled ...

Ranging across more than two centuries of literature and the visual arts, this edited collection of twelve original essays examines the compelling, much-overlooked subject of Gothic dreams and nightmares. Written by an international group of experts, including leading and lesser-known scholars, this interdisciplinary study promotes the reconsideration of the vastly under-theorised role of the subliminal in the Gothic. It begins with an explora...

The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is a long-running journal that publishes research complementary to the John Rylands Library's extensive special collections.

This book brings a new classroom approach for primary teachers to teach the explicit knowledge of scientific question-asking. This is an essential skill when children are involved in finding out about the world around them through science enquiry. This book challenges the assumption that because children ask lots of questions in science, that this automatically leads to meaningful learning of the enquiry curriculum. QuBuild is important for al...