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Triumph of Textiles Industrial Dundee, c. 1700–1918

Whatley, Christopher A Tomlinson, Jim
Heftet / 2025 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781399537827
Publisert
2025-03-31
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Whatley, Christopher A
Tomlinson, Jim

Biografisk notat

Christopher A. Whatley OBE, FRSE, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Dundee. He is the author of the award-winning The Scots and the Union (EUP, 2006 and 2014), and co-edited Edinburgh University Press’s History of Everyday Life in Scotland series. Long interested in Dundee’s history he has co-edited and written several books on the city. Christopher A. Whatley OBE, FRSE, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Dundee. He is the author of the award-winning The Scots and the Union (EUP, 2006 and 2014), and co-edited Edinburgh University Press’s History of Everyday Life in Scotland series. Long interested in Dundee’s history he has co-edited and written several books on the city. Jim Tomlinson is Professor in Economic & Social History at the University of Glasgow, and author of Managing the Economy, Managing the People. Narratives of British Economic Life from Beveridge to Brexit (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Triumph of Textiles Industrial Dundee, c. 1700–1918

Whatley, Christopher A Tomlinson, Jim
Heftet / 2025 / Engelsk
Whatley, Christopher A Tomlinson, Jim
Heftet / 2025 / Engelsk
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A fresh account of the remarkable rise of Dundee as a global industrial city and the origins of its later demise. The background to jute, the product most closely associated with Dundee, is investigated in unprecedented depth. The role of flax and linen as foundations for the jute industry is emphasised. The book challenges many perceptions of Dundee. Linen was as important to Dundee before c.1850 as jute was afterwards; the significance of jute pre-1850 has often been exaggerated by historians. Traditionally Dundee's success was attributed to the production of cheap coarse cloth for sacks, bagging etc. Yet many firms manufactured high quality, admiralty grade canvas, and colourful rugs and carpets in imitation of Brussels and other woollen floor coverings. Design was important. So too were enterprising merchants and manufacturers from the early eighteenth century onwards. Although squalor and industrial and social conflict became the norm after the 1870s, prior to that Dundee was relatively buoyant economically, and greatly admired by visitors including those from as far afield as the US. In short, Dundee was one of Scotland's industrial powerhouses a fact too often overlooked.
Les mer
Describes and reassesses the long-term industrial development of Dundee, emphasising the ever-shifting dynamics of textile production in shaping the city’s history
Acknowledgements List of Tables Illustrations Introduction: Re-writing the history of Industrial Dundee Chapter One: Dundee: The First Town in Great Britain‘The manufacture of linen is now...our principal article of trade...and Dundee is considered, in regard to this kind of manufacture, the first town in Great Britain.’ Chapter Two: The English East India Company and Dundee’s emergence as a global city, 1830s-1870s‘A success that has enriched Scotland and promoted the commerce of the world.’ Chapter Three: Entrepreneurial endeavour, from Angus flax merchants to ‘Lords o’ Juteopolis’‘Nearly half a century ago some sagacious Scotchmen engaged in the manufacture of jute’ (1883) Chapter Four: Dundee’s people and the headlong chaos of industrial transformationA ‘starving, turbulent population’? Chapter Five: The Darker SideIndustrial Dundee: ‘a very dangerous place to live’? Chapter Six: Kolkata bites back: the one-industry city under duress‘Of late, the jute mills of India have been dangerous competitors’ (1883) Chapter Seven: The city divided, c.1876-1918‘Ye rich, that move through plenty/Just think of poor Dundee’ Chapter Eight: The City and the First World War‘[Dundee] is in the strongest position in jute commodities that has ever been experienced’ (1915) Afterword 　 　 　
Les mer
Drawing on much original material, the book tells the remarkable story of Dundee’s rise as Britain’s principal producer of linen cloth and world leader in jute manufacturing

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A fresh account of the remarkable rise of Dundee as a global industrial city and the origins of its later demise. The background to jute, the product most closely associated with Dundee, is investigated in unprecedented depth. The role of flax and linen as foundations for the jute industry is emphasised. The book challenges many perceptions of Dundee. Linen was as important to Dundee before c.1850 as jute was afterwards; the significance of jute pre-1850 has often been exaggerated by historians. Traditionally Dundee's success was attributed to the production of cheap coarse cloth for sacks, bagging etc. Yet many firms manufactured high quality, admiralty grade canvas, and colourful rugs and carpets in imitation of Brussels and other woollen floor coverings. Design was important. So too were enterprising merchants and manufacturers from the early eighteenth century onwards. Although squalor and industrial and social conflict became the norm after the 1870s, prior to that Dundee was relatively buoyant economically, and greatly admired by visitors including those from as far afield as the US. In short, Dundee was one of Scotland's industrial powerhouses a fact too often overlooked.
Les mer
Describes and reassesses the long-term industrial development of Dundee, emphasising the ever-shifting dynamics of textile production in shaping the city’s history
Acknowledgements List of Tables Illustrations Introduction: Re-writing the history of Industrial Dundee Chapter One: Dundee: The First Town in Great Britain‘The manufacture of linen is now...our principal article of trade...and Dundee is considered, in regard to this kind of manufacture, the first town in Great Britain.’ Chapter Two: The English East India Company and Dundee’s emergence as a global city, 1830s-1870s‘A success that has enriched Scotland and promoted the commerce of the world.’ Chapter Three: Entrepreneurial endeavour, from Angus flax merchants to ‘Lords o’ Juteopolis’‘Nearly half a century ago some sagacious Scotchmen engaged in the manufacture of jute’ (1883) Chapter Four: Dundee’s people and the headlong chaos of industrial transformationA ‘starving, turbulent population’? Chapter Five: The Darker SideIndustrial Dundee: ‘a very dangerous place to live’? Chapter Six: Kolkata bites back: the one-industry city under duress‘Of late, the jute mills of India have been dangerous competitors’ (1883) Chapter Seven: The city divided, c.1876-1918‘Ye rich, that move through plenty/Just think of poor Dundee’ Chapter Eight: The City and the First World War‘[Dundee] is in the strongest position in jute commodities that has ever been experienced’ (1915) Afterword 　 　 　
Les mer
Drawing on much original material, the book tells the remarkable story of Dundee’s rise as Britain’s principal producer of linen cloth and world leader in jute manufacturing

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781399537827
Publisert
2025-03-31
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Whatley, Christopher A
Tomlinson, Jim

Biografisk notat

Christopher A. Whatley OBE, FRSE, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Dundee. He is the author of the award-winning The Scots and the Union (EUP, 2006 and 2014), and co-edited Edinburgh University Press’s History of Everyday Life in Scotland series. Long interested in Dundee’s history he has co-edited and written several books on the city. Christopher A. Whatley OBE, FRSE, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Dundee. He is the author of the award-winning The Scots and the Union (EUP, 2006 and 2014), and co-edited Edinburgh University Press’s History of Everyday Life in Scotland series. Long interested in Dundee’s history he has co-edited and written several books on the city. Jim Tomlinson is Professor in Economic & Social History at the University of Glasgow, and author of Managing the Economy, Managing the People. Narratives of British Economic Life from Beveridge to Brexit (Oxford University Press, 2017).

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