Victorian Dundee: Image and Realities - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 186232171X ISBN 13 : 9781862321717

Editeur : Tuckwell Press Ltd, 2001

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Tuckwell Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 186232171X
• ISBN 13: 9781862321717
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 249
• Éditeur: Miskell Louise, Whatley Christopher A., Harris Bob
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible