Industrialisation & industrial history books

2391 books were found.

The Mobilization and Demobilization of Middle-Class Revolt: Comparative Insights from Argentina

The Mobilization and Demobilization of Middle-Class...

Author: Daniel Ozarow
ISBN: 9780367671662
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Wine, Networks and Scales: Intermediation in the production, distribution and consumption of wine

Wine, Networks and Scales: Intermediation in the production,...

Author: Stéphanie Lachaud-Martin ,  Corinne Marache
ISBN: 9782807614161
Format: Paperback
$95.74

Wine as a product arises from human connections in know-how and trade as much as from the natural environment in...  Read More >>

Warship Builders: An Industrial History of U.S. Naval Shipbuilding 1922-1945

Warship Builders: An Industrial History of U.S. Naval...

Author: Thomas Heinrich
ISBN: 9781682475379
Format: Hardback
$74.80

Provides the first scholarly study of the US naval shipbuilding industry from the early 1920s to the end of World...  Read More >>

Cultures of Law in Urban Northern Europe: Scotland and its Neighbours c.1350–c.1650

Cultures of Law in Urban Northern Europe: Scotland and...

Author: Jackson W. Armstrong ,  Edda Frankot
ISBN: 9780367206796
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Drawing together an international team of historians, lawyers and historical sociolinguists, this volume investigates...  Read More >>

Imaginary Athens: Urban Space and Memory in Berlin, Tokyo, and Seoul

Imaginary Athens: Urban Space and Memory in Berlin,...

Author: Jin-Sung Chun (Busan National University of Education, Republic of Korea) ,  Youngjae Josephine Bae
ISBN: 9780367639921
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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

Cultures of Law in Urban Northern Europe: Scotland and its Neighbours c.1350–c.1650

Cultures of Law in Urban Northern Europe: Scotland and...

Author: Jackson W. Armstrong ,  Edda Frankot
ISBN: 9780367206802
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Drawing together an international team of historians, lawyers and historical sociolinguists, this volume investigates...  Read More >>

The Experiences of Basque and Spanish Iron Workers and their Descendants in Wales from 1900

The Experiences of Basque and Spanish Iron Workers and...

Author: Stephen James Murray
ISBN: 9781527562318
Format: Hardback
$263.87

This work is concerned with human migration at the turn of the twentieth century, specifically with iron workers...  Read More >>

Losing the Thread: Cotton, Liverpool and the American Civil War

Losing the Thread: Cotton, Liverpool and the American...

Author: Powell
ISBN: 9781789622492
Format: Hardback
$396.00

This is the first full-length study of the effect of the American Civil War on Britain’s raw cotton trade and on...  Read More >>

Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation

Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age...

Author: Jason E. Smith
ISBN: 9781789143188
Format: Hardback
$34.99

A trenchant expose of the effects of automation on worker's lives  Read More >>

Eisenverhuttung Im Dursteltal: Ein Hochofen Des 13. Jahrhunderts in Langenbruck

Eisenverhuttung Im Dursteltal: Ein Hochofen Des 13....

Author: Marianne Senn ,  Jurg Tauber
ISBN: 9783796542961
Format: Hardback
$100.32

In den Jahren 1995 bis 1997 wurden nahe dem Kloster Schontal zwei mittelalterliche Ofen freigelegt, in denen man...  Read More >>

The Night Trains: Moving Mozambican Miners to and from the Witwatersrand Mines, 1902–1955

The Night Trains: Moving Mozambican Miners to and from...

Author: Charles van Onselen
ISBN: 9781787384040
Format: Paperback
$59.95

This seminal book reveals how black labour was exploited in twentieth-century South Africa, the human costs of which...  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: 9781786499202
Format: Hardback
$49.99

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

Matthew Boulton and the Soho Mint: Copper to Customer

Matthew Boulton and the Soho Mint: Copper to Customer...

Author: Sue Tungate
ISBN: 9781858587233
Format: Paperback
$41.27

Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) was a globally important industrialist who introduced innovative minting practices at...  Read More >>

Working in Cork: Everyday life in Irish Steel, Sunbeam Wolsey and the Ford Marina Plant, 1917-2001

Working in Cork: Everyday life in Irish Steel, Sunbeam...

Author: Liam Cullinane
ISBN: 9781782054139
Format: Hardback
$90.56

This book deals with the history of the working class in twentieth-century Ireland through a close examination of...  Read More >>

The Herrin Massacre of 1922: Blood and Coal in the Heart of America

The Herrin Massacre of 1922: Blood and Coal in the Heart...

Author: Greg Bailey
ISBN: 9781476681719
Format: Paperback
$42.00

In 1922, a coal miner strike spread across the US, swallowing the heavily-unionized mining town of Herrin, Illinois....  Read More >>

Contemporary Studies on Modern Chinese History II

Contemporary Studies on Modern Chinese History II

Author: Zeng Yeying ,  Yanwen Sun
ISBN: 9781138483743
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Science in the Metropolis: Vienna in Transnational Context, 1848–1918

Science in the Metropolis: Vienna in Transnational Context,...

Author: Mitchell G. Ash (Universität Wien, Austria)
ISBN: 9780367612580
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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

Urbanization in India During the British Period (1857–1947)

Urbanization in India During the British Period (1857–1947)...

Author: Dipsikha Sahoo
ISBN: 9780367224868
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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

Orality and Literacy: Reflections across Disciplines

Orality and Literacy: Reflections across Disciplines...

Author: Keith Thor Carlson ,  Kristina Fagan
ISBN: 9781487527686
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Orality and Literacy investigates the interactions of the oral and the literate through close studies of particular...  Read More >>

Manila, 1645

Manila, 1645

Author: Pedro Luengo (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)
ISBN: 9780367433369
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Manila, 1645 reconstructs what the city of Manila was like before the earthquakes of the mid-seventeenth century....  Read More >>

The Shortest History of England

The Shortest History of England

Author: James Hawes
ISBN: 9781910400692
Format: Hardback
$33.61

With Brexit, Boris and new baby royals, there's no better time to discover the true history of England - and how...  Read More >>

Popular New Orleans: The Crescent City in Periodicals, Theme Parks, and Opera, 1875–2015

Popular New Orleans: The Crescent City in Periodicals,...

Author: Florian Freitag (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
ISBN: 9780367437718
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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

Architectures of Hurry—Mobilities, Cities and Modernity

Architectures of Hurry—Mobilities, Cities and Modernity...

Author: Phillip Gordon Mackintosh ,  Richard Dennis
ISBN: 9780367591892
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book explores how from the mid-C19th cultural, political, social, technological and economic factors have shaped...  Read More >>

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