Description |
1 online resource (308 pages) |
Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue; 1 From the Earliest Prehistory to the Founding of Liverpool; 2 From Liverpool's Foundation to the Civil War; 3 Civil War and the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; 4 Living in Liverpool; 5 Docks, the Port and Industry; 6 Reshaping the City; 7 Roads, Rails, Tunnels and Tracks; Epilogue; Bibliography; Copyright |
Summary |
The landscape has had a huge impact on the history of Liverpool and Merseyside. The ice age glaciers carved out the Rivers Mersy and Dee; the Sefton coast provided a perfect place for the earliest humans to hunt and gather food; and the Pool and the Mersey, and England's position on the coast gave King John the perfect base from which to launch his Irish campaigns. This book explores the landscaps from these earliest times, and charts the changing city right through to the present day. it explains why Liverpool looks the way it does today, and how clues in the modern landscape reveal deta |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Landscapes -- England -- Liverpool -- History
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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Landscapes.
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SUBJECT |
Liverpool (England) -- History
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Subject |
England -- Liverpool.
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Genre/Form |
History.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780752493862 |
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0752493868 |
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