878 títulos para "Manchester University Press"
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The My Lai Massacre in American History and Memory
Oliver, Kendrick
978-0-7190-6891-1On 16 March 1968, two US infantry companies entered a Vietnamese village and in the course of a single morning killed over 400 of its unarmed, unresisting inhabitants . . . This is the first book to examine the response of American society to the My Lai massacre and its ambiguous place in American...
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New Challenges for Documentary
978-0-7190-6899-7The first edition of New challenges for documentary provided a major stimulus for teaching about documentary film and television and fresh encouragement for critical thinking about practice. This second edition brings together many new contributions, both from academics and filmmakers, reflecting sh...
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Telling Tales about Men
Bibbings, Lois S. / Bibbings
978-0-7190-6923-9Telling tales about men explores some of the ways in which conscientious objectors to compulsory military service were viewed and treated in England during the First World War. In doing so it considers these men's experiences, their beliefs, perceptions and actions. This volume will be essential r...
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The Sense of Early Modern Writing
Robson, Mark
978-0-7190-6947-5In The sense of Early Modern writing, Mark Robson pursues the relation between the concept of the 'early modern' and modernity, tracing the complex interactions of post-Romantic, philosophical aesthetics and early modern rhetoric and poetics. The book therefore questions the status of what we now th...
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Qualities of Food
978-0-7190-6855-3In this book, available for the first time in paperback, the complexity and the significance of the foods we eat are analysed from a variety of perspectives, by sociologists, economists, geographers and anthropologists. Chapters address a number of intriguing questions: how do people make judgements...
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Trevor Griffiths
Tulloch, John / Tulloch
978-0-7190-6859-1Trevor Griffiths has been a critical force in British television writing for over three decades. His successes have included the series Bill Brand (1976), his adaptations of Sons and Lovers and The Cherry Orchard (1981) and his television plays, The Comedians (1979), Hope in the Year Two (1994) and...
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Political Ideology Today
Adams, Ian
978-0-7190-6020-5This second edition of an established textbook on political ideology provides a comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the powerful and persuasive ideas which have motivated the actions of both political leaders and the electorate. Political ideology today begins with an explanation of the natur...
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Gender and Warfare in the Twentieth Century
978-0-7190-6575-0Gender and warfare in the twentieth century is a collection of exciting, accessible and very readable essays that span the twentieth century, exploring the ways in which men and women have both represented warfare, and represented themselves as participants in warfare. A range of contributors from d...
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Climate Change and the Oil Industry
Skjaerseth, Jon Birger / Skodvin, Tora
978-0-7190-6559-0Multinational corporations are not merely the problem in environmental concerns, but could also be part of the solution. The oil industry and climate change provide the clearest example of how the two are linked; what is less well-known is how the industry is responding to these concerns. This volu...
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The Invention of Spain
Howarth, David J.
978-0-7190-6563-7This book considers the close but sometimes contested relationship between Britain and Iberia in the period c.1770-1870. It begins by considering how British Enlightenment writers came to terms with the decline of Spain as a political and economic force following the Seven Years War. It then consid...
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