Industrialisation & industrial history books

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Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work

Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded...

Author: Jason Resnikoff
ISBN: 9780252044250
Format: Hardback
$239.00

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The World's Last Steam Locomotives in Industry: The 20th Century

The World's Last Steam Locomotives in Industry: The...

Author: Gordon Edgar
ISBN: 9781445685090
Format: Paperback
$51.72

A stunning collection of rare photographs documenting the last years of industrial steam around the world.  Read More >>

The Soho Manufactory, Mint and Foundry, West Midlands: Where Boulton, Watt and Murdoch Made History

The Soho Manufactory, Mint and Foundry, West Midlands:...

Author: George Demidowicz
ISBN: 9781800349285
Format: Hardback
$113.85

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The Industry of Evangelism: Printing for the Reformation in Martin Luther’s Wittenberg

The Industry of Evangelism: Printing for the Reformation...

Author: Drew B. Thomas
ISBN: 9789004462403
Format: Hardback
$396.00

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

Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia

Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and...

Author: Gregg Mitman
ISBN: 9781620973776
Format: Hardback
$47.99

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

Senses of the Empire: Multisensory Approaches to Roman Culture

Senses of the Empire: Multisensory Approaches to Roman...

Author: Eleanor Betts
ISBN: 9781032242255
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Making Urban Theory: Learning and Unlearning through Southern Cities

Making Urban Theory: Learning and Unlearning through...

Author: Mary Lawhon (University of Oklahoma, U.S.A.) ,  Lene Le Roux
ISBN: 9781032238852
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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

Architecture and the Language Debate: Artistic and Linguistic Exchanges in Early Modern Italy

Architecture and the Language Debate: Artistic and Linguistic...

Author: Nicholas Temple
ISBN: 9781032238494
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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

Wires That Bind – Nation, Region, and Technology in the Southwestern United States, 1854–1920

Wires That Bind – Nation, Region, and Technology in...

Author: Torsten Kathke
ISBN: 9783837637908
Format: Paperback
$74.95

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Lockheed, Atlanta, and the Struggle for Racial Integration

Lockheed, Atlanta, and the Struggle for Racial Integration...

Author: Randall L. Patton
ISBN: 9780820361727
Format: Paperback
$81.71

Provides a rare, perhaps unique, account of African American struggle and management response, set within the context...  Read More >>

Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace

Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace

Author: Kristin M.S. Bezio (University of Richmond, USA) ,  Scott Oldenburg (Tulane University, USA)
ISBN: 9780367502317
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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

Gray Gold: Lead Mining and Its Impact on the Natural and Cultural Environment, 1700-1840

Gray Gold: Lead Mining and Its Impact on the Natural...

Author: Mark Chambers
ISBN: 9781621906988
Format: Hardback
$171.60

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

Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding

Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped...

Author: Hannah Farber
ISBN: 9781469663630
Format: Hardback
$63.80

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Sam Coverly's Journal with Historical Notes: Traveling and Trading in the Early Republic

Sam Coverly's Journal with Historical Notes: Traveling...

Author: John A. Albertini
ISBN: 9781527576032
Format: Hardback
$263.87

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

England's Asian Renaissance

England's Asian Renaissance

Author: Su Fang Ng ,  Carmen Nocentelli
ISBN: 9781644532409
Format: Paperback
$97.55

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

England's Asian Renaissance

England's Asian Renaissance

Author: Su Fang Ng ,  Carmen Nocentelli
ISBN: 9781644532416
Format: Hardback
$396.00

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

Two Centuries of Maine Shipbuilding

Two Centuries of Maine Shipbuilding

Author: Nathan Lipfert
ISBN: 9781608936816
Format: Hardback
$121.00

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The Built Environment Transformed: Textile Lancashire during the Industrial Revolution

The Built Environment Transformed: Textile Lancashire...

Author: Geoffrey Timmins
ISBN: 9781800856530
Format: Hardback
$126.79

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

Cathedrals of Steam: How London’s Great Stations Were Built – And How They Transformed the City

Cathedrals of Steam: How London’s Great Stations Were...

Author: Christian Wolmar
ISBN: 9781786499226
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Energy in the Americas: Critical Reflections on Energy and History

Energy in the Americas: Critical Reflections on Energy...

Author: Amelia Kiddle
ISBN: 9781552389393
Format: Paperback
$118.77

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

Land of Milk and Money: The Creation of the Southern Dairy Industry

Land of Milk and Money: The Creation of the Southern...

Author: Alan I. Marcus
ISBN: 9780807176054
Format: Hardback
$132.00

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

Company Suburbs: Architecture, Power, and the Transformation of Michigan's Mining Frontier

Company Suburbs: Architecture, Power, and the Transformation...

Author: Sarah Fayen Scarlett
ISBN: 9781621906773
Format: Hardback
$145.20

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

With Golden Visions Bright Before Them: Trails to the Mining West, 1849-1852

With Golden Visions Bright Before Them: Trails to the...

Author: Will Bagley
ISBN: 9780806169224
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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

When Giants Ruled the Sky: The Brief Reign and Tragic Demise of the American Rigid Airship

When Giants Ruled the Sky: The Brief Reign and Tragic...

Author: John J. Geoghegan
ISBN: 9780750987837
Format: Hardback
$65.00

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

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