The city and its worlds : aspects of Aberdeen's history since 1794
Brotherstone, Terry, 1943-1996
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"The city and its worlds" derives from a conference held in the Town and Country Hall in the Aberdeen Town House on 19 and 20 November 1994.
Main title:
The city and its worlds : aspects of Aberdeen's history since 1794 / edited by Terry Brotherstone & Donald J. Withrington.
Author:
Brotherstone, Terry, 1943-, editor and contributorWithrington, Donald J., editor and contributorHarper, Marjory, contributorBeavan, Iain, contributorDyer, Michael, contributorHargreaves, John D., contributorLee, Clive, contributorLobban, Seamus, contributorMacInnes, Ranald, contributorMorison, John, contributorDiack, Lesley, ontributorRansom, Edward, ontributorTyzack, Rosemary, contributor
Imprint:
Glasgow : Cruithne Press, 1996.
Collation:
xi, 244 p : ill., facsims., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Contributors - - Introduction / Terry Brotherstone and Donald J. Withrington - - Part I: Union Street and beyond - - Aberdeen since 1794: as place and as community / Donald J. Withrington - - Union Street and the 'great street' in Scottish town planning / Ranald MacInnes - - Advertising made a 'fine art' in Victorian Aberdeen / Edward Ransom - - Aberdonians abroad: two centuries of human exports from North-eastern Scotland / Marjory Harper - - The added values of learning / John Hargreaves - - Part II: issues in social, political and cultural history - - 'All new works of interest received on publication': Aberdeen and its access to the printed word, 1800-1850 / Iain Beavan - - 'A woman's greatest adventure': the development of maternity care in Aberdeen since the eighteenth century / Lesley Diack - - Healing for the body as well as for the soul: treatment in the Aberdeen Royal Lunatic Asylum during the nineteenth century / Seamus Lobban - - 'No mean city'? The growth of civic consciousness in Aberdeen with particular reference to the work of the Police Commissioners / Rosemary Tyzack - - Aberdeen into parliament: elections and representatives, 1832-1865 / Michael Dyer - - Aberdeen and Holland: John Forbes White and the Scottish fascination with Dutch art, 1860-1880 / John Morrison - - Part III: capital and labour - - Aberdeen 1800-2000 AD: the evolution of the Urban economy / Clive Lee - - Neither parochial nor soothing: Aberdeen and the future of labour history / Terry Brotherstone - - Index.
ISBN:
18734481209781873448120
Dewey class:
941.23508941.2
Local class:
941.25941.27941.23AaE941.235
Language:
English
Index terms:
Social lifeHistory, 1820 -Grampian (Scotland)ABERDEENABERDONIAN HISTORY
BRN:
653636