Jute No More: Transforming Dundee - Hardcover

Jim Tomlinson; Christopher Whatley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 184586090X ISBN 13: 9781845860905

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2011

Synopsis

This publication is the third in a series on the history of Dundee, as the trilogy ends with the story of Dundee in the 20th Century. As the Victorian era drew to a close, Dundee was the world's jute manufacturing capital Juteopolis. But behind that success lay social distress factory chimney s poured forth steam and smoke, housing was substandard and overcrowded, infant mortality was shockingly high. But as the present century dawned, a new Dundee was in the making. Juteopolis no more; in its stead Dundee proclaimed itself Scotland s City of Discovery . Biosciences and computer games are what many people now associate with Dundee. Students abound where mill workers formerly promenaded. This book traces the process of industrial decline and its social and political reverberations. But it is also a remarkable story of urban transformation, and how this impacted on jobs, the physical environment, social life, culture and politics. Jute No More is richly illustrated with over sixty images, most of them published for the first time.

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About the Authors

Jim Tomlinson is Professor in Economic & Social History at the University of Glasgow, and author of Managing the Economy, Managing the People. Narratives of British Economic Life from Beveridge to Brexit (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Christopher A. Whatley OBE, FRSE, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Dundee. He is the author of the award-winning The Scots and the Union (EUP, 2006 and 2014), and co-edited Edinburgh University Press’s History of Everyday Life in Scotland series. Long interested in Dundee’s history he has co-edited and written several books on the city.

Christopher A. Whatley OBE, FRSE, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Dundee. He is the author of the award-winning The Scots and the Union (EUP, 2006 and 2014), and co-edited Edinburgh University Press’s History of Everyday Life in Scotland series. Long interested in Dundee’s history he has co-edited and written several books on the city.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184586090X
• ISBN 13: 9781845860905
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: J. Tomlinson