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The Licensed City - Regulating drink in Liverpool, 1830-1920 (Hardcover)
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The Licensed City - Regulating drink in Liverpool, 1830-1920 (Hardcover)
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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 child neglect and excess mortality in its slums.
These dangers, heightened in Liverpool by the apparent connections
between the drink trade and the city's civic elite, marked urban
living and made alcohol a pressing political issue. As a temperance
movement emerged to tackle the dangers of drink, campaigners
challenged policy makers to re-imagine the acceptable reach of
government. While national leaders often failed to agree on what
was practically and philosophically palatable, social reformers in
Liverpool focused on the system that licensed the sale of drink in
the city's pubs and beerhouses. By reforming licensing, they would
later boast, Liverpool had tackled its reputation as the
drunkenness capital of England. The Licensed City reveals just how
battles over booze have made the modern city. As such, it confronts
whether licensing is equipped to regulate today's problem drinking.
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