SCOUSE REPUBLIC

Liverpool beguiles Liverpool bewilders Swift s superb analysis gets to the scarred heart of this troubled beautiful and spirited city Paul Du Noyer Swift has a terrific eye for the telling detail You should read this book Guardian Fascinating funny and full of great stories just like the city itself Alywn Turner Deftly blends a sweeping multi century history of the city s rising and fading fortunes with the cultural vignettes of Beatlemania and Merseybeat the figure of the scally and Liverpool s birds and the emergence of football casual culture which began on Anfield and Goodison Park s terraces New Statesman Liverpool is a unique city within the United Kingdom its dialect hedonism friendliness rejection of Englishness and most pertinently its politics all make for a rich cultural landscape Yet many of the things that make Liverpool the city it is today were not always at the fore Furthermore the complexity of the city and an investigation into all aspects of its past has not been readily available until now In Scouse Republic David Swift expertly tracks the city s transformation from a humble village to a central component of the transatlantic slave trade and one of the most important ports in the world fr