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Author Belchem, John.

Title Merseypride : essays in Liverpool exceptionalism / John Belchem.

Publication Info. Liverpool [England] : Liverpool University Press, 2006.

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Edition Rev. 2nd ed.
Description 1 online resource (xxxvi, 228 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Previous edition: 2000.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Title Page; Contents; Introduction: the new 'Livercool'; Preface to the first edition; Part One: Merseypride; 1: 'Liverpool's story is the world's glory'; 2: 'An accent exceedingly rare': Scouse and the inflexion of class; Part Two: Irish Liverpool; 3: Ribbonism, nationalism and the Irish pub; 4: Charity, ethnicity and the Catholic Parish; 5: Micks on the make on the Mersey; Part Three: Tory Town; 6: Protectionism, paternalism and Protestantism: popular Toryism in early Victorian Liverpool; Part Four: Comparative Perspectives; 7: Ethnicity, migration and labour history.
Summary Liverpool stands outside the main narrative frameworks of modern British history, located as it is at the intersection of competing cultural, economic and geo-political formations. Repudiated by some as an external imposition, an unmerited stigma originating from the days of the slave trade or the Irish famine, Liverpool?s?otherness? has been upheld (and inflated) in self-referential myth, a?Merseypride? that has shown considerable ingenuity in adjusting to the city?s changing fortunes. The response to the city?s selection as European Capital of Culture for 2008 displayed dramatically Liverp.
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Subject Liverpool (England) -- History.
Liverpool (England) -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Belchem, John. Merseypride. Rev. 2nd ed. Liverpool [England] : Liverpool University Press, 2006 1846310105 9781846310102 (OCoLC)63137201
ISBN 9781846313547 (electronic book)
1846313546 (electronic book)
1846310105 (paperback)
9781846310102 (paperback)