Merseypride : essays in Liverpool exceptionalism

著者

• Belchem, John

書誌事項

Merseypride : essays in Liverpool exceptionalism

John Belchem

Liverpool University Press, 2000

• : pbk

注記

Includes index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

ISBN 9780853237150

内容説明

Once the second city of empire, now descended by seemingly irreversible economic and demographic decline into European Union Objective One status, Liverpool defies historical categorization. Located at the intersection of competing cultural, economic and geo-political formations, it stands outside the main narrative frameworks of modern British history, the exception to general norms. What was it that established Liverpool as different or apart? In exploring this proverbial exceptionalism, these essays by a leading scholar of the history of Liverpool and of the Irish show how a sense of apartness has always been crucial to Liverpool's identity. While repudiated by some as an external imposition, an unmerited stigma originating from the slave trade days or the Irish famine influx, 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 first stage towards an urban biography of Liverpool, these essays in cultural history reconstruct the city's past through changes in image, identity and representation. Among the topics considered are Liverpool's problematic projection of itself through history and heritage; the belated emergence of 'scouse', an accent 'exceedingly rare', as cultural badge and signifier; the origins and dominance of Toryism in popular political culture, the deepest and most enduring political 'deviance' among Victorian workers, at odds with present-day perceptions of Merseyside militancy; and an investigation of the crucial sites-the Irish pub and the Catholic parish-where the Liverpool-Irish identity was constructed, contested and continued, seemingly immune to the normal processes of ethnic fade. The final section offers comparative methodological and theoretical perspectives embracing North America, Australia and other European 'second cities'.

目次

Illustrations Tables Acknowledgements 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 8 'Grandes villes': Liverpool, Lyon and Munich Index

巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780853237259

内容説明

Once the second city of empire - now descended into seemingly irreversible economic and demographic decline - Liverpool defies historical categorization. These essays in cultural history reconstruct the city's past through changes in image, identity and representation. Among the topics considered are: Liverpool's problematic projection of itself through history and heritage; the belated emergence of "scouse" - an accent now exceedingly rare as a cultural badge and signifier; the origins and dominance of Toryism in popular political culture; Merseyside militancy; and an investigation of the crucial sites - the Irish pub and the Catholic parish where the Liverpool-Irish community was constructed. The final section offers comparative methodological and theoretical perspectives embracing North America, Australia, and other European "second cities".

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA52796620
• ISBN:
  • 0853237158
  • 0853237255
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Liverpool
• ページ数/冊数: xvii, 228 p., [8] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 24 cm