Manchester Unspun

Author : Andy Spinoza
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526168448
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manchester unspun written by Andy Spinoza and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 creating his own PR firm. In a forty-year career he has encountered a who’s who of Manchester personalities, from cultural icons such as Tony Wilson to Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson and influential council leaders Sir Richard Leese and Sir Howard Bernstein. His remarkable account traces Manchester’s gradual emergence from its post-industrial malaise, centring on the legendary nightclub the Haçienda and the cultural renaissance it inspired.

Author : Isaac Rose
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1915672198
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rentier City written by Isaac Rose and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Manchester became the poster-child of neoliberal urbanisation, and what can the people that live there do about it? In cities across the world, gentrification and the housing crisis are facts of life. But how did we get to this point? And is there any way we can fight back? A good place to begin answering these questions is Manchester, England. Over the last thirty years, corporate developers, rentier capitalists and boosterist politicians have reshaped Manchester in their image, replacing its working-class communities, public spaces and affordable housing with skyscrapers, luxury developments and a private rental market that creates wealth for rentiers and impoverishes everybody else. The Rentier City traces this story, showing how it fits within the longer history of Manchester. In doing so unveils a larger story of the relationship between capital and our cities, between rentier and rentee, and gives us a blueprint of how fight back against rentier capitalism and take back control of the cities we live in.

Author : Justin O'Connor
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526171252
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture is not an industry written by Justin O'Connor and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture is at the heart to what it means to be human. But twenty-five years ago, the British government rebranded art and culture as ‘creative industries’, valued for their economic contribution, and set out to launch the UK as the creative workshop of a globalised world. Where does that leave art and culture now? Facing exhausted workers and a lack of funding and vision, culture finds itself in the grip of accountancy firms, creativity gurus and Ted Talkers. At a time of sweeping geo-political turmoil, culture has been de-politicised, its radical energies reduced to factors of industrial production. This book is about what happens when an essential part of our democratic citizenship, fundamental to our human rights, is reduced to an industry. Culture is not an industry argues that art and culture need to renew their social contract and re-align with the radical agenda for a more equitable future. Bold and uncompromising, the book offers a powerful vision for change.

Author : Caroline Sturdy Colls
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526149052
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'Adolf Island' written by Caroline Sturdy Colls and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Adolf Island’ offers new forensic, archaeological and spatial perspectives on the Nazi forced and slave labour programme that was initiated on the Channel Island of Alderney during its occupation in the Second World War. Drawing on extensive archival research and the results of the first in-field investigations of the ‘crime scenes’ since 1945, the book identifies and characterises the network of concentration and labour camps, fortifications, burial sites and other material traces connected to the occupation, providing new insights into the identities and experiences of the men and women who lived, worked and died within this landscape. Moving beyond previous studies focused on military aspects of occupation, the book argues that Alderney was intrinsically linked to wider systems of Nazi forced and slave labour.

Author : Joseph C. Salamone
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780849322266
Total Pages : 1782 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Concise Polymeric Materials Encyclopedia written by Joseph C. Salamone and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1998-08-28 with total page 1782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concise Polymeric Materials Encyclopedia culls the most used, widely applicable articles from the Polymeric Materials Encyclopedia - more than 1,100 - and presents them to you in a condensed, well-ordered format. Featuring contributions from more than 1,800 scientists from all over the world, the book discusses a vast array of subjects related to the: synthesis, properties, and applications of polymeric materials development of modern catalysts in preparing new or modified polymers modification of existing polymers by chemical and physical processes biologically oriented polymers This comprehensive, easy-to-use resource on modern polymeric materials serves as an invaluable addition to reference collections in the polymer field.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Paper Box and Bag Maker written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes reports of annual conferences held by various trade federations.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World's Paper Trade Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Rule
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317870700
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vital Century written by John Rule and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long neglected, the Eighteenth Century is now the focus for much of the most exciting work in history today. This new research has so altered and expanded our understanding of the Georgian economy that some historians now question the very idea of an `Industrial Revolution'. John Rule uses the latest scholarship for a comprehensive and magisterial review -- of population, output, agriculture, manufacture, labour, communications, towns, finance and domestic and overseas markets -- through which he reassesses the `vital century' in which the contours of the modern economy first emerge to view. An analytical survey which offers the first comprehensive economic history of the C.18th.

Author : Christina Riggs
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0857856774
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unwrapping Ancient Egypt written by Christina Riggs and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First runner-up for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies 2015. In ancient Egypt, wrapping sacred objects, including mummified bodies, in layers of cloth was a ritual that lay at the core of Egyptian society. Yet in the modern world, attention has focused instead on unwrapping all the careful arrangements of linen textiles the Egyptians had put in place. This book breaks new ground by looking at the significance of textile wrappings in ancient Egypt, and at how their unwrapping has shaped the way we think about the Egyptian past. Wrapping mummified bodies and divine statues in linen reflected the cultural values attached to this textile, with implications for understanding gender, materiality and hierarchy in Egyptian society. Unwrapping mummies and statues similarly reflects the values attached to Egyptian antiquities in the West, where the colonial legacies of archaeology, Egyptology and racial science still influence how Egypt appears in museums and the press. From the tomb of Tutankhamun to the Arab Spring, Unwrapping Ancient Egypt raises critical questions about the deep-seated fascination with this culture – and what that fascination says about our own.

Author : Great Britain. Executive commission. Philadelphia exhibition, 1876
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Official Catalogue of the British Section written by Great Britain. Executive commission. Philadelphia exhibition, 1876 and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: