Industrialisation & industrial history books

Off the Pacific coast of South America, nutrients mingle with cool waters rising from the ocean’s depths, creating...  Read More >>

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Off the Pacific coast of South America, nutrients mingle with cool waters rising from the ocean’s depths, creating...  Read More >>

Reprint of a classic history of canals with upgraded material.  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 >>

The Ottoman Empire went through rapid economic and social development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth...  Read More >>

Tells the story of a fearful time in America’s recent history, as people in the heartland endured massive layoffs,...  Read More >>

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Networks of Modernity: Germany in the Age of the Telegraph, 1830-1880 investigates the origins and impact of the...  Read More >>

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Completed in 1938, the Trans-Iranian Railway connected Tehran to Iran's two major bodies of water: the Caspian Sea...  Read More >>

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"This original study of the ""New Police"" in Cambridge provides a more nuanced picture of policing in early-Victorian...  Read More >>

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2021 Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2021 Longlisted for...  Read More >>

A fascinating account of the century-long effort to define, access, preserve, develop, and exploit the uniquely...  Read More >>

Women's emancipation through productive labour was a key tenet of socialist politics in post-World War II Yugoslavia....  Read More >>

17 b/w illus, 26 b/w graphs & 31 b/w tbls.  Read More >>

This book explores the role of emotions in the making and remaking of the city, from the medieval to the modern...  Read More >>

Oscar Wilde said 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.' Was he right? In Civilisations, David Olusoga...  Read More >>

With its focus on a contested political field, this book contributes to practical and theoretical debates within...  Read More >>

This book reflects on the motivations of creative practitioners who have moved out of cities from the mid-1960s...  Read More >>

This book introduces the concept of ‘deep cities’, a novel approach to the understanding and management of sustainable...  Read More >>

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Originally published in 1981, French Cities in the Nineteenth Century analyses large-scale processes of social change...  Read More >>