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ОглавлениеPRAISE FOR LIVERPOOL: CITY OF THE SEA
‘Tony Lane has succeeded in encapsulating Liverpool’s unique spirit, while at the same time charting its beginnings, the rise and decline of its “old families”, its hideous poverty, its great wealth, its inability to adapt.’
George Melly, The Guardian
‘What the book does, it does brilliantly ... Buzzes with the startling details of a passionate but disciplined enthusiasm’
Frank Cottrell Boyce
‘Remarkably prescient’
Tristram Hunt
TONY LANE, who was brought up on the Isle of Wight, went to sea at the age of seventeen, serving on the Queen Mary as well as oil tankers and other vessels. After attending Ruskin College, Oxford, on a TUC scholarship he moved to Liverpool University where he wrote a number of acclaimed books including Grey Dawn Breaking: British Merchant Seafarers in the Late Twentieth Century and The Merchant Seamen’s War, and also contributed to History Workshop Journal and other journals. He later directed the Seafarers International Research Centre at Cardiff University, and now lives in West Wales.
Liverpool
City of the Sea
Tony Lane
Serif
London
This revised and updated e-book edition first published 2015 by
Serif
47 Strahan Road
London E3 5DA
First published as Liverpool: Gateway of Empire in 1987 by Lawrence & Wishart Second, revised edition published as Liverpool: City of the Sea in 1997 by Liverpool University Press
Copyright © Tony Lane 1987, 1997, 2015
e-book edition copyright © Serif 2015
The moral rights of the author have been asserted.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted or stored in a retrieval system, in any form or by any means, without prior permission in writing from the publishers
ISBN: 978 1 909150 16 4
e-book produced by Will Dady
Cover photograph by Peter Broadbent
Cover design by Pentagram
