Jack Webster's Aberdeen

A History

Auteur Jack Webster

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Jack Webster's Aberdeen

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ISBN

9781841584782

Bindwijze

Hardcover

Taal

Engels

Auteur

Jack Webster

Uitgeverij

Birlinn General

Jaar van uitgifte

2007

Aantal pagina's

320

Waar gaat het over?

Aberdeen has had its fair share of attention from historians down the centuries. But in this fresh look at the story, Jack Webster condenses the knowledge and wisdom of past research and focuses on the later history. He observes the city's dramatic transformation in the twentieth century, when it went from an economy based on farming, fishing, textiles and granite to an industry which outshone them all. Who could have guessed that the Granite City would take on an international reputation as the oil capital of Western Europe? The events that unfolded from the 1960s were to transform the prosperity of Aberdeen and the North East of Scotland on an unprecedented scale. Jobs, housing, hotels and restaurants sprang up everywhere, and the standard of living was raised to a level unthinkable to a previous generation.

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