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The licensed city : regulating drink in Liverpool, 1830-1920 /

In nineteenth-century Britain few cities could rival Liverpool for recorded drunkenness. Civic pride at Liverpool's imperial influence was undercut by anxieties about social problems that could all be connected to alcohol, from sectarian unrest and prostitution in the city's streets to chi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beckingham, David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Liverpool : the making of a licensed city
  • Liberty on license
  • Between teetotalism and free trade : the rise of temperance politics in Liverpool
  • Mapping drink : the spatial logic of social reform
  • Attacking the licensing system : the 'twin evils' of drunkenness and prostitution
  • Women and the public house
  • The reformed licensing system : slum clearance and social reform
  • 'Liverpool's temperance lesson to the nation'? : the challenge of compensation
  • The licensed city at war
  • Conclusions : liberalism's local logic.