Merseypride: Essays in Liverpool Exceptionalism

by John Belchem

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846310105
• ISBN13: 9781846310102
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"