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Liverpool : city of radicals / edited by John Belchem and Bryan Biggs.
- Title
- Liverpool : city of radicals / edited by John Belchem and Bryan Biggs.
- Publication
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2011.
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| Text | Request in advance | DA690.L8 L58 2011 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 207 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Uncontrollable, anarchic, separate and alienated from mainstream England, the Liverpool of popular imagination is a hotbed of radicalism and creativity. But is that reputation really justified? Starting in 1911, a year which saw a warship on the Mersey suppressing near revolution in the Liverpool Transport Strike, the remarkable exhibition of paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Cézanne and the European avant-garde alongside works by local artists at the Bluecoat, and the opening of The Liver Building, the first major building in the UK to use reinforced concrete in its construction and crowned by two liver birds that came to symbolise the city's resilience, this fascinating book looks at one hundred years of radicals and radicalism in Liverpool. Ranging widely across a century of politics, music, football, theatre, architecture and art, Liverpool: City of Radicals concludes with a look at the contemporary city and asks what role radicalism can play in the future of Liverpool."--Publisher's website.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : a democratic promenade / John Belchem and Bryan Biggs -- Radical prelude : 1911 / John Belchem -- Rebuilding the temple : modernism with ancestry in the Liverpool School of Architecture / Peter Richmond -- Radical art city? / Bryan Biggs -- The revolution will not be dramatised / Roger Hill -- The heavens above and the dirt below : Liverpool's radical music / Paul Du Noyer -- Women and radicalism in Liverpool, c1890-1930 / Krista Cowman -- The Liverpool way, the Matchless Kop and the Anny Road Boys : notes on the contradictions in Liverpool football supporter radicalism / John Williams -- Liverpool 1911 and its era : foundational myth or authentic tradition? / Mark O'Brian -- From the ground up : radical Liverpool now / Kenn Taylor -- Scouse and the city : radicalism and identity in contemporary Liverpool / Clare Devaney -- Radical soundings.
- ISBN
- 1846316472
- 9781846316470
- OCLC
- 698911854
- SCSB-10832133
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library