Liverpool has been shaped by its historic dependence on ships and seaborne trade to an extent unequalled anywhere else in Britain. This history has left its birthmark on the present. In a unique analytical essay blending economic and social history with sociology, Tony Lane shows how the structures and the everyday life experiences of shipowners and seafarers, merchants and dockers have together produced a city with a distinctive social character. The city's dependence on shipping and commerce has ended, but it passing is recent enough for it still to exert a powerful influence and give this remarkable city a 'feel' of being noticeably different from anywhere else in England. This book is a second fully revised and updated edition of Tony Lane's Liverpool: Gateway of Empire (Lawrence and Wishart, 1987).
- ISBN10 0853237808
- ISBN13 9780853237808
- Publish Date 1 March 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 February 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Liverpool University Press
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English