Books from Manchester University Press
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Affairs to Remember: The Hollywood Comedy of the Sexes
By Bruce Babington, Peter William Evans... Touch of Mink ( 1962 ) , Cathy Timberlake ( Doris Day ) hits upon the strategy of confessing the unspeakable : ' I have an uncle who's a socialist .
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Family rhythms: The changing textures of family life in Ireland
By Jane Gray, Ruth Geraghty, David RalphPahl and Pevalin (2005) suggested that in Britain this may be attributable to the increased geographical mobility of younger people who left home to pursue higher education or job opportunities in the changing socio-economic conditions ...
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Sectarian Violence: The Liverpool Experience, 1819-1914 : an Aspect of Anglo-Irish History
By Frank NealO. D.O.M. W.M. W.M. 50 Eastlake St , Everton Lithographic printer 40 Sandhayes St , Walton Rd Timber Salesman Hall Lane Manager 45 Back Salisbury St Brewer 36 Olive St Woodturner County Rd , Walton Funeral Furnisher 61 Summerseat 39 ...
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Women of the Fields: Representations of Rural Women in the Nineteenth Century
By Karen SayerThe women were therefore represented by Dr Hunter as , at best , careless and unthinking mothers . They did not know how to look after their children when they were with them and when they went to the fields it was claimed that they ...
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Noblewomen, aristocracy and power in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm
By Susan M. JohnsH. Clover and M. Gibson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979), pp. 160–3 (no. 50). For Eva Crispin see ibid., pp. ... For women and books in the Middle Ages generally see Bell, 'Medieval women book owners'. 10 Judith married Tostig earl of ...
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Women's Medical Work in Early Modern France
By Susan BroomhallThis text combines detailed research with a clear presentation of the existing literature of women's medical work, making it useful to students of gender and medical history.
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Tasso's art and afterlives: The Gerusalemme liberata in England
By Jason LawrenceBlake speculates that Porter himself was instrumental in selecting this specific theme: The subject of Porter's newly commissioned painting might have been specially chosen to please and flatter both the artist and King Charles.
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Louis XIV and the parlements: The assertion of royal authority
By John J. Hurt13 The Jansenist issue did not become prominent in the parlements until the 1730s. See Peter R. Campbell, Power and Politics in Old Regime France, 1720–1745 (London and New York, 1996), pp. 195–221, 237–274, and Dale K. Van Kley, ...
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An Economic and Social History of Gambling in Britain and the USA
By Roger MuntingHargreaves , J. ( 1986 ) Sport , power and culture : a social and historical analysis of popular sports in Britain , Cambridge , Cambridge University Press . Harris , H.A. ( 1975 ) Sport in Britain . Its origins and development , London ...
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Women and the shaping of British Methodism: Persistent preachers, 1807–1907
By Jennifer M. LloydO'Bryan's parents and grandparents used the last name Brian or Bryant; the majority of his children chose the latter. O'Bryan himself was convinced, on little evidence, that he had Irish ancestry, and preferred the Irish spelling.
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Britain’s ‘brown babies’: The stories of children born to black GIs and white women in the Second World War
By Lucy BlandSherwood, Pastor Daniels Ekarte, p. 24. St Clair Drake commented that it was 'a term that outrages higher status Negro sentiments'; 'The Brown Baby Problem', Box 20 60/15. On Garvey, see Colin Grant, Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall ...
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Clanship to Crofter's War: The Social Transformation of the Scottish Highlands
By Thomas Martin Devine, Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History and Palaeography and Director of the Scottish Centre of Diaspora Studies T M DevineTwo families are strictly prohibited from living upon one croft . If one of a family marries , he must leave the croft ; and a case has even been brought under my notice , in which the only son of a widow , who is in joint possession of ...
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Whig Principles and Party Politics: Earl Fitzwilliam and the Whig Party, 1748-1833
By William Lewis Sachse29 Zouch to Fitzwilliam , 19 December , J. Preston , 21 December and S. Croft , 21 December 1783 ( F 34b ) ; Wyvill Papers , II , p . 289. Fitzwilliam had tried without success to persuade Weddell and Sir John Ramsden to second Foljambe ...
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André Téchiné
By Bill MarshallL'Anti - Oedipe : capitalisme et schizophrénie . ... Où en est l'homosexualité en 85 , ou pourquoi je ne veux pas être un ' écrivain gay ' . ... Alderson and L. Anderson ( eds ) , Territories of Desire in Queer Culture .
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Sport in Britain: A Bibliography of Historical Publications, 1800-1988
By Richard William Cox5644 Aflalo , F. G. 501 ; 2596 ; 5226 Agelasto , C. 2010 Aherne , S. 5645 Ainscow , L. 2937 Ainslie , C. M. 3569 ... C. W. 5489 Anderson , C. 4644 Anderson , E. 760 Anderson , J. 2262 Anderson , J. R. L. 6982 Anderson , R. A. 4965 ...
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Radical Artisan, William James Linton, 1812-97
By Francis Barrymore SmithRadical Artisan, William James Linton, 1812-97
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Artisan to Graduate: Essays to Commemorate the Foundation in 1824 of the Manchester Mechanics' Institution, Now in 1974 the University...
By Donald Stephen Lowell Cardwell... D. , 46 Rutherford , Ernest ( Lord Ruther- Stewart , M. , 46 ford ) , 9 Stone , D. , 102 Stowell , Rev. ... P. , 27 , 28 Schofield , F. , 211 Thompson , W. , 95 Schunck , H. E. , 137 Thomson , J. , 47 Schunck , M. , 79 Tootal ...
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Contemporary Korean Cinema: Culture, Identity and Politics
By Hyangjin LeeBaudry , Jean - Louis , ' Ideological effects of the basic cinematographic apparatus ' , in Bill Nichols ( ed . ) , Movies and Methods Volume II : An Anthology ( Berkeley , University of California Press , 1985 ) , pp . 531-42 .
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The Nature of African Customary Law
By Taslim Olawale EliasJohnson has this to say of the Ogboni Secret Societies among the Yorubas : ' Amongst the Egbas and Ijebus , the Ogbonis are the chief executive , they have the power of life and death , and power to enact and to repeal laws : but in the ...
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Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: New Interdisciplinary Essays
By Adam Smith, Kathryn Sutherland3 Donald Winch , ' Science and the Legislator : Adam Smith and After ' , Economic Journal , 93 ( 1983 ) , p . 509 . 4 See Franco Zallio , ' Adam Smith's Dual Circulation Framework ' , Royal Bank of Scotland Review , 166 ( 1990 ) , pp .