Description: Describes and reassesses the long-term industrial development of Dundee, emphasising the ever-shifting dynamics of textile production in shaping the city's history
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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.Review Quotes: Whatley and Tomlinson have pooled their expert knowledge of textile industries and of politics to provide a rigorous new look at industrialisation in Dundee - a city long neglected by most economic historians of Scotland. Linen turns out to have been as important as jute in the making of 'Juteopolis'.--George C. Peden, Emeritus Professor, University of Stirling