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Description for Liverpool
Paperback. Looks at one hundred years of radicals and radicalism in Liverpool. Ranging widely across a century of politics, music, football, theatre, architecture and art, this book also looks at the contemporary city and asks what role radicalism can play in the future of Liverpool. Editor(s): Belchem, John; Biggs, Bryan. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 369 x 14. Weight in Grams: 388.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
388g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846316470
SKU
V9781846316470
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About John Belchem
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. Bryan Biggs has worked at Bluecoat, Liverpool’s contemporary arts centre, for over four decades, curating numerous exhibitions, and live ... Read more
Reviews for Liverpool
The reader will come away from this book with a rich understanding of “Mersey pride” and a wish to visit this remarkable city. Philip Harling, The Historian, Vol. 74, No. 3