Industrialisation & industrial history books

Originally published in 1978, The Making of Urban Scotland traces the evolution of towns from their prehistoric...  Read More >>

This book uses a story-telling approach to present the multitude of applications associated with industrial engineering....  Read More >>

The most significant debate in global economic history over the past twenty years has dealt with the Great Divergence,...  Read More >>

'The Knight who invented Champagne' is the story of how developments in the British glass industry in the early...  Read More >>

In spite of being named the first 'Garden City', Letchworth was conceived as a model industrial town built on enterprise...  Read More >>

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Jonathan A. Grant analyzes the connections between private business, disarmament, and re-armament as they affected...  Read More >>

The follow-up to Hannah's Story, this recounts the fortunes of Hannah’s female descendants into the 20th century...  Read More >>

Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines tells the stories of the women at the heart of this group - from...  Read More >>

The Making of the American Creative Class narrates the history of workers in New York's publishing, advertising,...  Read More >>

This book describes and analyses the 2003 British Airways (BA) Customer Service Agents (CSA) 24-hour unofficial...  Read More >>

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The story of Richard Bateson, the last potter of Black Burton and the pottery industry in North West England.  Read More >>

In most studies of British decolonisation, the world of labour is neglected, the key roles being allocated to metropolitan...  Read More >>

The extraction of raw turpentine and tar from the southern longleaf pine constitutes what was once the largest industry...  Read More >>

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The flooding and subsequent closure of Scotland’s last deep coal mine in 2002 brought a centuries long saga to an...  Read More >>

The flooding and subsequent closure of Scotland’s last deep coal mine in 2002 brought a centuries long saga to an...  Read More >>

During the California Gold Rush, many of the miners and merchants who hoped to strike it rich left behind letters...  Read More >>

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This book examines the overlapping spaces in modern western cities to explore the small-scale processes that have...  Read More >>

During the California Gold Rush, many of the miners and merchants who hoped to strike it rich left behind letters...  Read More >>

The oil and gas sector is currently one of the most important sectors of the Russian economy, and Russian oil and...  Read More >>

This book examines the impact of the Cold War in a global context and focuses on city-scale reactions to the atomic...  Read More >>

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