Table of Contents

List of Figures and Table
Acknowledgements
Preface

Introduction
1. The Rise of Sectarianism
2. The Influence of the Orange Order
3. Explaining the Decline of Orangeism
4. Sectarian Dividing Lines and Post-War Slum Clearance
5. The Diminishing Politics of Sectarianism: How Class Politics Displaced Identity Politics
6. Ecumenism: ‘The Great Mersey Miracle’ and a Decline in Religious Observance
7. The Transfer of Racism: Did Liverpool’s Black and Chinese Communities Become ‘New Aliens’?
8. The Emergence of a Common Identity: The Integration of the Irish and the Harmony of ‘Merseybeat’
9. Everton and Liverpool Football Clubs: New Gods
Conclusion

Select Bibliography
Appendices
Index 

About the Author

Keith Daniel Roberts is an independent political historian who specialises in the history of the city of Liverpool.

Reviews

'A major academic work on the eclipse of clashing identities in urban Britain, [this book is] multi-faceted in its scope, using a tremendous amount of new research.'