Victorian Dundee : : Image and Realities /

Victorian Dundee : : Image and Realities / / Louise Miskell, Christopher Whatley, Bob Harris.

Victorian Dundee: a city grown prosperous on more than a century's lead in linen production and for a time the world's jute capital - 'Juteopolis'. But textile production was accompanied by a strong sense of civic pride, some remarkable architectural triumphs and perhaps a surpri...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
VerfasserIn:
Whatley, Christopher,
Harris, Bob,
Miskell, Louise,
MitwirkendeR:
Baillie, Myra,
Duck, Rob,
Harris, Bob,
Kemp, John,
Kenefick, William,
MacDonald, Murdo,
McKean, Charles,
Merchant, Jan,
Miskell, Louise,
Walsh, Lorraine,
Whatley, Christopher A.,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2011
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 62 B/W illustrations 22 colour illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Plates
  • List of Tables
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction: Altering Images
  • 1 ‘Not even the trivial grace of a straight Line’ – Or Why Dundee Never Built a New Town
  • 2 The Growth and Development of the Port of Dundee in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
  • 3 Civic Leadership and the Manufacturing Elite: Dundee, 1820–1870
  • 4 Altering Images of the Industrial City: The Case of James Myles, the ‘Factory Boy’, and Mid-Victorian Dundee
  • 5 ‘From the Grampians to the Firth of Forth’: The Development of the Dundee Royal Infirmary
  • 6 ‘An Insurrection of Maids’: Domestic Servants and the Agitation of 1872
  • 7 The Grey Lady: Mary Lily Walker of Dundee
  • 8 Docks, Railways or Institutions: Competing Images for Mid-Nineteenth-Century Dundee
  • 9 Contesting Memory and Public Spaces: Albert Square and Dundee’s Pantheon of Heroes
  • 10 The Patron, the Professor and the Painter: Cultural Activity in Dundee at the Close of the Nineteenth Century
  • 11 Red Tayside? Political Change in Early Twentieth-Century Dundee
  • 12 ‘City of the Future’: James Thomson’s Vision of the City Beautiful
  • Notes
  • Index

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