DUNDEE has transformed itself since 1945. The city's economy has diversified after its long dependence on the jute industry, and cultural and social life have developed in directions that would have been hard to predict two generations ago. Andrew Murray Scott's vivid, informative and finely-illustrated account concentrates on these critical years in Dundee's history. Before World War Two the city was in decline and only in the 1970s, with the advent of new technologies, did Dundee's regeneration begin. Against this background of profound change, the author gives a remarkable account of the rich daily life of Dundee. He recalls important events and individuals, offers keen insights into the processes of development and recovery, and paints a graphic portrait of the modern city and its people. Modern Dundee will be evocative reading for anyone who knows the city and has lived there during the post-war years, and it will also serve as a valuable introduction to its immediate history.
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Andrew Murray Scott is a novelist whose publications includes the novels Estuary Blue and Tumulus and biographies of John Graham of Claverhouse and of Alexander Trocchi. He is the author of Discovering Dundee, the popular guide to Dundee's history, and of the script of the video documentary The Story of Dundee, and edited the Letters of Graham of Claverhouse for the Scottish Historical Society.
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