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Liverpool As It Was During The Last Quarter Of The Eighteenth Century, 1775 To 1800

Liverpool As It Was During The Last Quarter Of The Eighteenth Century, 1775 To 1800

Brooke, Richard

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General ReferenceFiction AnthologiesBritish History

ISBN10: 9354418163
ISBN13: 9789354418167
Publisher: Alpha Ed
Published: Feb 15 2021
Pages: 572
Weight: 2.88
Height: 1.16 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Step into Liverpool at the height of its Georgian transformation, when crowded quaysides, narrow streets and new public buildings were reshaping a provincial town into a thriving port. The streets come alive here. First published in the mid-nineteenth century, Richard Brooke's Liverpool As It Was During The Last Quarter Of The Eighteenth Century, 1775 To 1800 is a classic liverpool history book that captures everyday scenes, characters, trades and landmarks drawn from living memory and contemporary records. As urban history nonfiction it offers an intimate portrait of life in Georgian Liverpool, from commerce and religion to leisure and local politics, opening a rare window onto eighteenth century urban life for curious general readers as well as for local history researchers. Brooke wrote as a native who had watched late 18th century Liverpool grow from compact town to bustling seaport, making his testimony a cornerstone of british social history book writing on the history of British port cities and Georgian era Merseyside. Treasured by liverpool maritime history readers and collectors of classic local histories and any serious british regional history collection, it remains both a vivid narrative and a meticulous reference to streets, buildings and institutions long vanished. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure, and an ideal gift for history buffs who enjoy richly observed, authentically voiced accounts of the past.

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