Victorian Dundee: Image and Realities

Christopher Whatley; Bob Harris; Louise Miskell

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2011

Victorian Dundee

Image and Realities

Christopher Whatley , Bob Harris and Louise Miskell

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474473545

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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 surprising enthusiasm for public and private art.

The traditional view of Dundee in this period is of a grim industrial town marred by social deprivation and riven by workplace conflict. This was only part of the story, and comes later. Early Victorian Dundee provided regular work and better wages than had been paid in the countryside (many of the town's inhabitants were migrants). Working people enjoyed spending money as well as earning it and were able to enjoy a range of social amenities such as the town's grand parks.

This book, the first edition of which attracted very favourable reviews, reveals aspects of Dundee that have been hidden from history. This second, extended edition of Victorian Dundee: Image and Realities goes further than the 2000 edition in challenging myth-history. Included are two altogether new chapters. One is on the development - and desecration - of Dundee's ancient waterfront, resulting from the opening of new rail routes. The other reveals who Dundee' s local heroes were, in the shape of the public statues erected in Albert Square. Original chapters have been revised whilst in addition the book is supplemented by more than forty new illustrations that offer fresh and sometimes stunning visual perspectives on a great Scottish city.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Plates Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
List of Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Preface and Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
List of Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xix
Introduction: Altering Images Christopher A. Whatley, Bob Harris and Louise Miskell Publicly Available Download PDF	xxiii
1 ‘Not even the trivial grace of a straight Line’ – Or Why Dundee Never Built a New Town Charles McKean Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 The Growth and Development of the Port of Dundee in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries William Kenefick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
3 Civic Leadership and the Manufacturing Elite: Dundee, 1820–1870 Louise Miskell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
4 Altering Images of the Industrial City: The Case of James Myles, the ‘Factory Boy’, and Mid-Victorian Dundee Christopher A. Whatley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
5 ‘From the Grampians to the Firth of Forth’: The Development of the Dundee Royal Infirmary Lorraine Walsh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
6 ‘An Insurrection of Maids’: Domestic Servants and the Agitation of 1872 Jan Merchant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
7 The Grey Lady: Mary Lily Walker of Dundee Myra Baillie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
8 Docks, Railways or Institutions: Competing Images for Mid-Nineteenth-Century Dundee Rob Duck and Charles McKean Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
9 Contesting Memory and Public Spaces: Albert Square and Dundee’s Pantheon of Heroes Christopher A. Whatley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
10 The Patron, the Professor and the Painter: Cultural Activity in Dundee at the Close of the Nineteenth Century Murdo MacDonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
11 Red Tayside? Political Change in Early Twentieth-Century Dundee John Kemp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
12 ‘City of the Future’: James Thomson’s Vision of the City Beautiful Bob Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	300

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 312
Illustrations
- Other: 62 B/W illustrations 22 colour illustrations
Keywords: Scottish Studies

eBook

Published: November 10, 2011
ISBN: 9781474473545