Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. List of Plates ix
5. List of Tables xiii
6. Preface and Acknowledgements xv
7. List of Contributors xix
8. Introduction: Altering Images xxiii
9. 1 ‘Not even the trivial grace of a straight Line’ – Or Why Dundee Never Built a New Town 1
10. 2 The Growth and Development of the Port of Dundee in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 29
11. 3 Civic Leadership and the Manufacturing Elite: Dundee, 1820–1870 45
12. 4 Altering Images of the Industrial City: The Case of James Myles, the ‘Factory Boy’, and Mid-Victorian Dundee 69
13. 5 ‘From the Grampians to the Firth of Forth’: The Development of the Dundee Royal Infirmary 102
14. 6 ‘An Insurrection of Maids’: Domestic Servants and the Agitation of 1872 112
15. 7 The Grey Lady: Mary Lily Walker of Dundee 134
16. 8 Docks, Railways or Institutions: Competing Images for Mid-Nineteenth-Century Dundee 151
17. 9 Contesting Memory and Public Spaces: Albert Square and Dundee’s Pantheon of Heroes 173
18. 10 The Patron, the Professor and the Painter: Cultural Activity in Dundee at the Close of the Nineteenth Century 197
19. 11 Red Tayside? Political Change in Early Twentieth-Century Dundee 217
20. 12 ‘City of the Future’: James Thomson’s Vision of the City Beautiful 239
21. Notes 258
22. Index 300