Industrialisation & industrial history books

Winner of the Australia and New Zealand Law and History Society (ANZLHS) Prize for 2023 Maritime workers occupy...  Read More >>

The recent vast upsurge in social science scholarship on job precarity has generally little to say about earlier...  Read More >>

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The Popular Guerrilla Group (GPG) took shape from sporadic armed conflicts. Early victories encouraged the GPG to...  Read More >>

This book is about the role played by architects, engineers and planners in transforming France during the three...  Read More >>

This book is about the role played by architects, engineers and planners in transforming France during the three...  Read More >>

A full-length biography chronicling Joseph G. Butler’s early life through his impactful career in the iron and steel...  Read More >>

Motherhood, Respectability & Baby-Farming in Victorian & Edwardian London explores the largely obscured marketplace...  Read More >>

In this analysis of one of the economic breakthroughs in the Deng era, Jean C.Oi shows how and why Chinese rural-based...  Read More >>

Part journalism history, part biography, and part democratic chronicle, The Insider offers a deeply researched portrayal...  Read More >>

Part journalism history, part biography, and part democratic chronicle, The Insider offers a deeply researched portrayal...  Read More >>

Born at a traditional Inuit camp in what is now Nunavut, Joan Scottie has spent decades protecting the Inuit hunting...  Read More >>

Offers a reflection on recent political and environmental history and a call for a future in which Inuit traditional...  Read More >>

If you ever wondered how and why British industry and its empire collapsed, then this is the book to read!  Read More >>

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Jan Breman analyses labour bondage in India's changing political economy from 1962 to 2017. Focusing on what has...  Read More >>

During the twentieth century, German government and industry created a highly skilled workforce as part of an ambitious...  Read More >>

This book shows that there were key points of convergence and divergence in the past between the United States and...  Read More >>

Many of London’s Victorian buildings are built of coarse-textured yellow bricks – London stocks, produced in huge...  Read More >>

Churchill's American Arsenal describes in depth how WWII became the ""War of Factories,"" telling the heroic narratives...  Read More >>

Water in the Making of a Socio-Natural Landscape explores the transition from early modern to modern water management...  Read More >>

How did Washington become the leading producer of America’s most popular fruit? In this enlightening book, Amanda...  Read More >>

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