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Inhalt :: Content
Online-Service mit Zugang zu über 1.600 Backlist- und Frontlist-Titeln der Manchester University Press aus den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften. Das Titelangebot umfasst Veröffentlichungen aus den folgenden Bereichen: Anthropologie, Archäologie, Kunst und Architektur, Wirtschaft, Film, Medien und Musik, Geschichte, Humangeographie, Internationale Beziehungen, Recht, Literatur und Theater, Philosophie und Kritische Theorie, Politik, Religion und Soziologie. Sämtliche Titel können als feste, fachbereichsbezogene Pakete oder im Rahmen von individuell zusammengestellten Pick&Choose-Paketen durch Datenkauf bezogen werden. Abgedeckter Zeitraum: 1999 ff. Updates: laufend.
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Verlagsinformation :: Publisher's information
We are dedicated to creating extensive collections to aid in research for students and scholars; manchesterhive currently offers twelve distinct digital collections for perpetual access purchase; Manchester Literature Studies, and Manchester Medieval Studies. You can also create a custom collection from any of the 1600+ eBook titles on manchesterhive.
Each collection presents an easy-to-use online archive, aiming to provide access to the most recent content in each of their respective fields. Our collections are updated annually, to ensure that each year there is new content for exploration and study.
- Manchester Film Studies
Manchester Film Studies is a collection of 163 books written by leading names in the field as well as one journal: Film Studies. It covers all aspects of film studies from volumes on a wide range of British, French, Spanish and Latin American filmmakers to debates and issues that are informing current practice in film and screen studies.
This collection is a valuable resource for students and academics interested in film studies. It aims to help readers develop an understanding of how film engages with socio-cultural and political concerns, placing films in their historical context as well as covering current debates and future challenges for cinema as a medium. Manchester Film Studies will enable readers to explore many aspects of theoretical and historical film studies as well as critical approaches to classical and contemporary films.
- Manchester Gothic
Manchester Gothic is an unrivalled collection of gothic literature including 53 books and the Gothic Studies (1999-2018) journal, written by leading names in the field and covering literature, film, television, theatre and visual arts, dating from the eighteenth century to the present day.
Interest in the gothic has exploded in recent years, making Manchester Gothic a valuable resource to students and academics interested in gothic studies and how the genre has changed over time.
Manchester Gothic explores the reasons why gothic studies is so prevalent in the fields of art, film, literature and culture by providing easy access to digital texts, essays and studies in all things gothic. From the study of gothic and death to monsters, vampires, werewolves and ghosts as well as studies on visionaries such as Terry Gilliam, Alan Moore and Terence Fisher, Manchester Gothic brings them all together in one easy-to-use resource.
- Manchester History of Medicine
Manchester History of Medicine is a collection of 57 books written by leading names in the field. It covers all aspects of health, illness and medicine, from prehistory to the present, in every part of the world.
This collection is a valuable resource for students and academics interested in the history of medicine as it draws upon both the intellectual rigour of the humanities and the practice-based, real-world emphasis of clinical and professional nursing.
Manchester History of Medicine will enable readers to explore all aspects of health and healing including ideas, beliefs and practices, and the social, economic and cultural contexts in which they operate.
- Manchester International Relations
Manchester International Relations is an unrivalled collection of over 65 books written by leading names in the field covering key issues and debates on global issues such as foreign policy, gender, global ethics, environmental politics and terrorism.
Manchester International Relations aims to explore and analyse the critical approaches to the study of global issues - from authority; citizenship; foreign policy, gender, war and peace to global ethics; human rights; media; environmental politics and international law.
This online resource will help scholars understand contemporary international relations and the forces that are reshaping global politics in the 21st century by examining international political systems, international political theory, and developments in contemporary global politics throughout Europe, the USA, Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
- Manchester Literature Studies
Manchester Literature Studies is a collection of 158 books written by leading names in the field, offering readers critical introductions to some of the most exciting and challenging writing of recent years.
Manchester Literature Studies offers readers critical introductions to some of the most exciting and challenging writing of recent years and presents lucid interpretations of authors who have sought to capture the sensibilities of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries as well as critical narratives that dominate conventional and established understandings of nineteenth-century literature.
Informed, but not dominated, by critical theory, this collection of 157 book and 1 journal explores the influence of diverse traditions, histories and cultures on prose fiction, and situates key figures within their relevant social, political, artistic and historical contexts.
- Manchester Medieval Sources Online
Providing easy access to digital history sources, Manchester Medieval Sources Online brings essential texts from the Manchester Medieval Sources series to students and academics all over the world.
From the terror of the Black Death to the drama of the Norman invasion, Manchester Medieval Sources Online brings alive the reality of life in the medieval world through these first hand accounts, many translated into English for the first time. The series is also unique in providing extensive introductory and explanatory material which will enable a beginner in the area to understand the variety of interpretations the sources have had, and any linguistic problems that have been controversial.
- Manchester Medieval Studies
Manchester Medieval Studies is a collection of 70 books written by leading names in the field. It showcases ground breaking scholarship in medieval history, literature and culture. The collection is an ideal companion to Manchester Medieval Sources Online.
The study of the middle ages is being transformed as old orthodoxies are challenged, new methods embraced and fresh fields of enquiry opened up. Manchester Medieval Studies showcases ground breaking scholarship in medieval history, literature and culture. The collection includes 70 books, written by leading names in the field, and promotes interdisciplinary studies of the early Middle Ages through to the late, as well as post-medieval engagements with and representations of the medieval period.
- Manchester Political Studies
Manchester Political Studies is a collection of over 165 books written by leading names in the field covering political events, ideas, movements, roles of government, voters, parties and leaders and the way these elements shape society as a whole.
Manchester Political Studies aims to examine and analyse the theories and practices of power and governance, from local to international level and examine the progress of people, behaviours, policy, events and government from the early 20th century to the present day.
This online resource will help scholars to understand contemporary political problems in their historical perspective and will cover key themes such as political thought, concepts and theory, international politics, globalisation and democracy through the ages.
- Manchester Religious Studies
Manchester Religious Studies is a collection of over 86 books written by leading names in the field as well as the journal, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library. It covers a range of disciplines including theology, philosophy, history of religion and sociology, with a focus on Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
This collection is a valuable resource for students and academics interested in religious studies and will enable readers to explore religious cultural systems, behaviours and faith.
Manchester Religious Studies aims to emphasise systematic, historically based, crosscultural perspectives. It offers rigorous scholarship on a wide variety of subjects, from medieval heresy trials to twenty-first-century Islamic charities, from Victorian hagiology to present-day halal and kosher debates.
- Manchester Security, Conflict & Peace
Manchester Security, Conflict & Peace aims to explore and analyse the structural mechanisms of conflicts, national security and domestic and international terrorism as well as key theories and concepts related to the study of peacebuilding.
Manchester Security, Conflict & Peace includes 61 books covering key issues and debates on international, regional and national security, domestic and international terrorism as well as conflict management and resolution and practices of peacebuilding.
This collection spans a range of disciplines including national and international law, human security, social and foreign policy, intelligence and national security policymaking, cybersecurity, counter-terrorism and peace studies.
- Manchester Shakespeare
Manchester Shakespeare includes 73 books covering a wealth of historical, social and cultural critiques of Shakespeare's works, plus the works of his contemporaries such as Spenser, Kyd, Marlowe and Lyly.
Not of an age, but for all time... our new collection provides new and significant commentary on all aspects of Shakespeare's work, drawing on not only the written word, but Shakespeare in performance, in historical and cultural contexts, and in relation to critical theory.
- Manchester Studies in Imperialism
With over 162 titles, published over two decades, Manchester Studies in Imperialism is firmly positioned at the forefront of the study of imperial history.
The Studies in Imperialism series has played a progressive role in reshaping both British and Imperial histories by greatly expanding their respective repertoires to explore new and previously neglected subjects and by focusing attention more firmly on the tightly interwoven relationships between them.
Manchester Studies in Imperialism delivers a rich source of scholarship on cultural encounters between the coloniser and colonised, the circulation of power through the production and organisation of colonial knowledge, and the construction of identity both at the heart and on the margins of empire.
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