Industrialisation & industrial history books

This monograph examines the rise of the Wittenberg printing industry and analyses how it overtook the Empire’s leading...  Read More >>

Using contemporary records and exploring developments on British Railways, this account covers the period from 1938...  Read More >>

"""An ambitious and shocking expose�e s of America's hien empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation,...  Read More >>

""" This book facilitates more careful engagement with the production, politics and geography of knowledge as scholars...  Read More >>

This book examines the creative exchanges between architects, artists and intellectuals, from the Early Renaissance...  Read More >>

Through a series of multisensory case studies centred on people, places, buildings and artefacts, and on specific...  Read More >>

This exciting collection of essays explores new ways of understanding politics and governance in Europe’s cities...  Read More >>

Telegraphy and railroads changed power relations throughout the world in the nineteenth century. Torsten Kathke...  Read More >>

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Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape...  Read More >>

Broadens understandings of early colonial and Native American history by turning attention to the ways that mining...  Read More >>

This book explores the intersection between geographic, material, and ideological marketplaces through the lens...  Read More >>

Sam Coverly was an entrepreneur and an adventurous traveler. His trading took him to China and England, to Montreal...  Read More >>

Questioning long-standing dichotomies between East and West and embracing a capacious understanding of translatio...  Read More >>

Questioning long-standing dichotomies between East and West and embracing a capacious understanding of translatio...  Read More >>

Covering the entire coast, this rich visual history focuses on the industry and the vessels produced, highlighting...  Read More >>

By making comparisons with developments occurring at similar types of site elsewhere in Britain, as well as in Europe...  Read More >>

The epic story of London's major railway stations, by Britain's bestselling transport historian.  Read More >>

Brings the diverse energy histories of North and South American nations into dialogue with one another, presenting...  Read More >>

Contrasts two types of neighbourhoods that transformed Michigan's mining frontier between 1875 and 1920: paternalistic...  Read More >>

Examines the establishment of the dairy industry in the United States South during the 1920s. Alan Marcus suggests...  Read More >>

How the American airship came within a hair’s breadth of replacing planes, trains, and ocean liners as dominant...  Read More >>

During the mid-nineteenth century, a quarter of a million travelers - men, women, and children - followed the ‘road...  Read More >>

Maurice Broomfield (1916-2010) was a humanist photographer of the heroic and sublime - and sometimes surreal - qualities...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Rural Life brings together the latest research on peasantry in medieval Europe....  Read More >>