Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vi
4. List of Tables vii
5. List of Abbreviations viii
6. Acknowledgements ix
7. Introduction: Rewriting the History of Industrial Dundee 1
8. 1 Dundee: The First Town in Great Britain 24
9. 2 The English East India Company and Dundee’s Emergence as a Global City, 1830s–1870s 60
10. 3 Entrepreneurial Endeavour, from Angus Flax Merchants to ‘Lords o’ Juteopolis’ 92
11. 4 Dundee’s People and the Headlong Chaos of Industrial Transformation 132
12. 5 The Darker Side 171
13. 6 Calcutta Bites Back: The One-industry City under Duress 187
14. 7 The City Divided, c. 1876–1918 214
15. 8 The City and the First World War 245
16. Afterword 277
17. Index 283