Liverpool: A Landscape History

Liverpool: A Landscape History
ISBN-10
0752493868
ISBN-13
9780752493862
Series
Liverpool
Category
History
Pages
160
Language
English
Published
2013-06-03
Publisher
The History Press
Author
Martin Greaney

Description

The landscape has had a huge impact on the history of Liverpool and Merseyside. The ice age glaciers carved out the Rivers Mersey 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 landscapes 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 details of its long history. You’ll see how the landscape created Liverpool, and how in turn Liverpool recreated the landscape.

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