Industrialisation & industrial history books

This open access book examines a particular factor in the enduring international success of German companies.  Read More >>

Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the newly formed country of Czechoslovakia built an ambitious national rail network...  Read More >>

This book looks at early mining activity on Dartmoor from the twelfth century, when Stannary Law in Devon was first...  Read More >>

Ye is a historical Chinese city built in 659 BC and burned down to the ground in 580 AD. The book investigates the...  Read More >>

“A propulsive narrative filled with boldfaced names from business and politics. At times, it is a dishy score settler.”—The...  Read More >>

Through the study of the professional trade association of the rigattieri (second-hand dealers), this book explores...  Read More >>

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Historical true crime story, that examines life (and death) of the craftspeople in northern England during the Industrial...  Read More >>

Places is a microhistory study of village settlements in early modern Northwest Italy that aims to expand the notion...  Read More >>

Using declassified archival material and health propaganda, Williams argues that the Bolsheviks, tsarist and Soviet...  Read More >>

The contributions to this volume address the materiality of literary narratives in urban history from a range of...  Read More >>

Communities across Europe for eight centuries contracted with doctors, who provided citizen care, helped govern,...  Read More >>

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

The rise and fall of Britain's most important industry  Read More >>

The gruesome truth hung in the air, and none of us wanted to go near it. Not yet. Ireland, 1848. Fourteen-year-old...  Read More >>

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Forfar, the county town of Angus, Scotland, is small enough for everyone to know almost everyone else in the town....  Read More >>

The Gothic is more than just maidens-in-peril fleeing supernatural villains in another age. Historically, it was...  Read More >>

"Der Maschinenschlosser Hermann Enters wachst Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts in der Textilmetropole des Wuppertals auf....  Read More >>

"Making the Palace Machine Work: Mobilizing People, Objects, and Nature in the Qing Empire brings the studies of...  Read More >>

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1877--Rossburg, Pennsylvania--Golden Age of the Lumber Barons--Sawmill worker and Scottish immigrant Ian Douglas...  Read More >>

The lives of the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, on New York's Lower East Side in 1911, imagined...  Read More >>

Russian Modernism in the Memories of the Survivors tells the stories of participants in the Russian avant-garde...  Read More >>

Five in-depth conversations with eminent historians: David Cannadine, Michael Gordin, Margaret Jacob, Teofilo Ruiz,...  Read More >>