Industrialisation & industrial history books

Represents what is happening in small communities across the United States as their newspapers struggle to survive....  Read More >>

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The 18th volume in the Working Americans series focuses on health care workers from 1880 to 2022. This resource...  Read More >>

Set within a wider British and international context of post-war reconstruction, The Everyday Experiences of Reconstruction...  Read More >>

This edited collection of essays shows how new electrical technology changed rural life in Britain in the twentieth...  Read More >>

Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century court and civic festivals incorporated the political ambitions and aesthetic...  Read More >>

Early modern European festivals were the catalyst for the creation of many temporary and occasionally permanent...  Read More >>

This book aims to share understanding of best practice in the industries associated with construction and related...  Read More >>

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This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by expert series editors and contextualised by...  Read More >>

Documenting the county's fascinating industrial history. Which is nowadays associated with food production as the...  Read More >>

Illustrated with more than 200 photographs, Abandoned Train Stations provides a fascinating pictorial journey through...  Read More >>

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This book examines architecture and urban planning in Berlin, Tokyo, and Seoul as the capitals underwent a transnational...  Read More >>

Throughout the ages of sail and steam, migrants made vital contributions to the construction of the urban-maritime...  Read More >>

This study offers a macro picture of the urban process under the British administration, showing how colonial capitalism...  Read More >>

Focusing on heritage and the uses of the past in the plural ethnic and cosmopolitan environment of Mediterranean...  Read More >>

Popular New Orleans traces the evolution of popular depictions of the Crescent City from 19th-century local-color...  Read More >>

"This book presents new research on ""thick spaces"" of scientific research and processes of interurban and transnational...  Read More >>

This book combines urban theory with film studies and cultural theory to explore how twentieth century Los Angeles...  Read More >>

As white settlement spread along railways and through the agricultural areas of Australia, almost every important...  Read More >>

Colourful brands and packaging erupted in the 1920s and 30s, when tariffs killed flour exports to Europe. Australian...  Read More >>

This book studies the hitherto unexplored history of the shawl and silk industries of Kashmir, India.  Read More >>