Glasgow / / Irene Maver.
Glasgow is enshrined in the popular consciousness as a city of multiple and often contradictory identities. The 'Second City of Empire', the 'Venice of the North', 'Red Clydeside' and the 'Merchant City' are a few of the phrases that have been used to project...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor's Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- The Pre-Industrial City
- 1. Glasgow prior to 1690
- 2. The Rise of the Merchant City, 1690-1800
- Industrial Transformation, 1800-1860
- 3. The Consolidation of the Urban Economy
- 4. Pressures for Political Reform
- 5. Remaking Society
- Second City of the Empire, 1860-1918
- 6. The Mature Industrial Economy
- 7. Changing Political Directions
- 8. Living in the 'Second City'
- Glasgow Since 1918
- 9. Industrial Decline and Economic Reorientation
- 10. Municipal and Parliamentary Politics
- 11. Social Change and Modernisation
- Further Reading
- Index