Popular Politics, Riot and Labour: Essays in Liverpool History 1790-1940: 8 (Liverpool Historical Studies)

ISBN 10: 0853234272 / ISBN 13: 9780853234272

Editore: Liverpool University Press, 2000

The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Codice articolo GOR006839427

Riassunto:

Based on extensive new research, this volume of essays explores the contrast between Liverpool’s contemporary image and its historical experience. The "shock city" of post-industrial Britain, Liverpool is now identified by a self-defeating image, condemned to failure by a militant micro-culture of truculent defiance, collective solidarity and fatalist humor. Much of the image, however, is media myth, lacking in historical resonance before the city’s recent economic decline. In contrast with its current projection, Liverpool’s past is not well-known. Failing to conform to the main pattern and narrative of modem British history, the city has attracted little attention from historians other than as the exception which proved the rule. These essays seek to redress the balance, to reconstruct a distinctive Liverpool identity in a manner which belies media distortion or historiographical condescension. An exercise in new labor history, this volume illuminates, the complex social history of Liverpool popular politics.

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Titolo: Popular Politics, Riot and Labour: Essays in...
Casa editrice: Liverpool University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2000
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Good