Victorian Dundee: Image and Realities

ISBN 10: 186232171X / ISBN 13: 9781862321717

Published by Birlinn Ltd, 2002

Seller Inventory # U9781862321717

Synopsis:

This volume represents a scholarly challenge to Dundee's traditional image as a town overshadowed by the jute industry, abandoned by its wealthy middle classes and characterized by social strife and architectural ugliness. The book brings together new research on the activities of Dundee's businessmen, civic elites, intellectuals, social reformers, urban planners and working classes to reveal a civic image that differs radically from the "juteopolis" myth. Jute's domination of the local economy was shortlived, and its influence on modern perceptions of the city has been over-played. This book, exploring the development of Dundee before and after the heyday of jute, offer a contribution to the history of urban society and its management in Scotland in the 19th century and to a growing body of work on textile and manufacturing towns in this period.

About the Author:

Christopher A. Whatley OBE, FRSE is Emeritus Professor of Scottish History at the University of Dundee. Initially an historian of the coal and salt industries, and of Scottish industrialisation, he has since written on Scotland’s everyday life, urban society, popular protest, riot and disorder, the causes and consequences of the Union of 1707, memorialisation, and Scottish writers including Robert Burns and his legacy, and John Galt.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Victorian Dundee: Image and Realities
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: 19364933
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Edition: 1769080113.