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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0853234272 ISBN 13: 9780853234272

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 1992

Synopsis

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 humour. 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 labour history, this volume illuminates, the complex social history of Liverpool popular politics.

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About the Author

John Belchem, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Liverpool, is acknowledged as Liverpool’s leading historian, whose many publications include editing the Liverpool 800 book, published on the city’s 800th anniversary. He recently contributed to the Peterloo Massacre bicentenary programme.

Edition details

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0853234272
• ISBN 13: 9780853234272
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Belchem John