📗 Libro en inglés LIVERPOOL AND THE UNMAKING OF BRITAIN

Few cities in the world are as famous as Liverpool the home of the modern world s most celebrated rock group and of a legendary football team The city is equally notorious for its poverty its ethnic and racial divides and above all its decline For Liverpool was once a great port growing rich on slavery on trade with the Americas and the British Empire s outposts in Africa and Asia In the 1980s it was described as obsolete yet the city stubbornly refuses to die This is a brilliant elegantly written history of Liverpool since the Second World War It is a story of vast docklands shrinking and eventually vanishing when corporations discovered they should shift goods in containers and dispense with human workers of industries like car manufacturing mushrooming and disappearing of huge new suburbs being built and neglected It is a moving and horrifying narrative of casual racism Chinese sailors deported en masse in the aftermath of the war systematic discrimination against the city s Black population and of resistance culminating in the Toxteth riots of 1981 The de industrialisation of the city under Margaret Thatcher s government the various attempts to renew and gentrify the devastated waterfront and the bizarre interlude of Militant control of