Merseypride, Second Edition

Essays in Liverpool Exceptionalism

John Belchem

Merseypride, Second Edition
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John Belchem

Distributed for Liverpool University Press

228 pages | 14 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2006
Paper $25.00 ISBN: 9781846310102 Published August 2006 For sale in North America only
The city of Liverpool remains outside the narrative frameworks of modern British history, at the nexus of competing cultural, economic, and political forces. Merseypride explores just how this sense of otherness shapes Liverpudlian identity, a “Merseypride” that changes with the city’s fortunes. Leading academic John Belchem’s second edition of this acclaimed book paints a fascinating picture of a city currently experiencing an extraordinary renaissance. 

“Belchem is entitled to take pride in this piece of Mersey History.”—History
Contents
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
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