Cains: The Story of Liverpool in a Pint

Christopher Routledge

ISBN 10: 1846311500 / ISBN 13: 9781846311505

Published by Liverpool University Press, 2009

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160 Pages Illus.

Seller Inventory # 032837

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cains: The Story of Liverpool in a Pint
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846311500
• ISBN 13: 9781846311505
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • British History

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Synopsis

The story of Cain’s, like the story of Liverpool, is one of passion, ambition, and graft. It takes in immigration, global trade, terrible poverty, and vast wealth. In just two generations the Cain family went from the slums of Irish Liverpool to a seat in the House of Lords. As the city grew so did the brewery and as it struggled, so Cain’s fought for survival. At the height of Liverpool’s fortunes Robert Cain owned 200 public houses across Merseyside, including the world famous Philharmonic Dining Rooms -’The Phil’ - which he built. City and brewery have shared the highs and lows of recent Liverpool history and the remarkable revival of Cain’s by another immigrant family, the Dusanjs, in the twenty-first century is matched by the city’s own recovery and reinvention. Here then, is the story of Liverpool in a pint.

About the Author

Christopher Routledge is a freelance writer and editor. Previous publications include Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language (Edinburgh University Press, 2005), Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language and Mystery in Children's Literature. He the editor of The Reader Online, the online offspring of The Reader magazine.