Industrialisation & industrial history books

In The Georgian Triumph, 1700–1830 (originally published in 1983), Michael Reed re-creates the ambience of eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

This monograph puts a focus on the fundamental role of timber, in the European industrialization process. This ties...  Read More >>

Going to Market rethinks women’s contributions to the early modern commercial economy. A number of previous studies...  Read More >>

Divided into five chronological sections (Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Modern and Contemporary)...  Read More >>

Taking the form of two companion volumes, Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland represents the first major...  Read More >>

Taking the form of two companion volumes, Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland represents the first major...  Read More >>

The history of medieval Germany, particularly that of the lower social orders, has thus far remained largely unknown...  Read More >>

The café as an institutional site has been the subject of renewed interest amongst scholars in the past decade,...  Read More >>

Festivals and ceremonials played a major role in the Spanish world; through them local identities as well as a common...  Read More >>

Early modern Naples has been characterized as a marginal place on the fringes of the European world. In recent historiography...  Read More >>

The essays in this volume concentrate on festival iconography, the visual and written languages, including ephemeral...  Read More >>

This book is the first comprehensive economic, social and political study of the London suburb of Croydon from 1900...  Read More >>

The debut work by bestselling author of Demon Copperhead: a true story of female-led resilience during the Great...  Read More >>

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This book examines the 1894 Pullman Strike, one of the most consequential clashes between labor and capital that...  Read More >>

A radical new history of energy and humanity's insatiable need for resources that will change the way we talk about...  Read More >>

Emma Paterson, Trade Unionist and Feminist, In Her Own Words brings together the major works that comprise Emma...  Read More >>

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Density of housing in late medieval and early modern London could make access to light and privacy incompatible,...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary volume focuses on the politics, economics, technologies, uses, and cultures of maintenance...  Read More >>

This book reveals how the 19th Century modernisation of Bogotá led to a transformation in the social role of plants...  Read More >>

Exploring Tom Rolt’s many landscapes, and legacy, through a series of linked essays  Read More >>

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This book is an interdisciplinary study that draws on a combination of archaeological evidence, building archaeological...  Read More >>

How all great powers decline-including the US  Read More >>