Northern Identities: Historical Interpretations of 'The North' and 'Northernness'

ISBN-13: 9780754600398 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 256 str.

Neville Kirk

Opis

This volume of essays explores some of the rich and varied historical interpretations of "the North" and "northernness". The focus rests mainly, but not exclusively, on the North of England. The essays highlight the complex and shifting interplay with feelings of localism and nationalism.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Neville Kirk; Part one: Constructions of ’the North’ and ’Northernness’: Constructing ’the North’: space and a sense of place, Stuart Rawnsley; Music and northern identity, 1890-c. 1965, Dave Russell; Urban systems, identity and development in Lancashire and Yorkshire: a complex question, Stephen Caunce; ’The playground of Northern England’: the Isle of Man, Manxness and the northern working class, John Belchem; Tradition and tourism: representing Basque identities in San Sebastián and its province, 1848-1936, John K. Walton; Part two: Case studies: place and identity: Samuel Bamford and northern identity, Martin Hewitt and Robert Poole; Sport and the social construction of identity in north-east England, 1800-1914, Mike Huggins; ’In the Midlands but not of them’: Derbyshire’s dark peak - an imagined northern landscape, Melanie Tebbutt; Ambiguous identities: constructing and de-constructing black and white 'Scouse' identities in twentieth-century Liverpool, Diane Frost; Index.

O autorze

Neville Kirk