Industrialisation & industrial history books

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Reterritorializing the Spaces of Violence in Colombia: Collective Efforts

Reterritorializing the Spaces of Violence in Colombia:...

Author: Constanza López Baquero
ISBN: 9781032442587
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This volume examines how violence and resilience is experienced in urban spaces, and explores the history of a variety...  Read More >>

Swansea’s Royal Institution and Wales’s First Museum

Swansea’s Royal Institution and Wales’s First Museum...

Author: Helen Hallesy ,  Gerald Gabb
ISBN: 9781837720903
Format: Hardback
$95.95

In 1841, the Royal Institution of South Wales founded the first museum in Wales. Specialist authors describe its...  Read More >>

Ships of State: Literature and the Seaman's Labour in Proto-Imperial Britain

Ships of State: Literature and the Seaman's Labour in...

Author: Laurie Ellinghausen
ISBN: 9781487529475
Format: Hardback
$134.55

Ships of State analyses representations of seaborne labour across popular literary genres during the early years...  Read More >>

Coal and Community in Wales: Images of the Miners' Strike: before, during and after

Coal and Community in Wales: Images of the Miners' Strike:...

Author: Richard Williams ,  Amanda Powell
ISBN: 9781800995031
Format: Paperback
$38.79

A unique perspective on the 1984 85 UK Miners' Strike from a husband-and-wife team who reported on it in person...  Read More >>

Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China

Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early...

Author: Ian M. Miller ,  Paul S. Sutter
ISBN: 9780295752877
Format: Paperback
$84.48

A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE Restores China’s place in forest history The disappearance of China’s naturally...  Read More >>

Malabar Farm: Louis Bromfield, Friends of the Land, and the Rise of Sustainable Agriculture

Malabar Farm: Louis Bromfield, Friends of the Land,...

Author: Anneliese Abbott
ISBN: 9781606354315
Format: Paperback
$79.07

"Established in 1939 by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and farmer Louis Bromfield, Malabar Farm was once considered...  Read More >>

From a Rock to a Hard Place: The 1984/85 Miners' Strike

From a Rock to a Hard Place: The 1984/85 Miners' Strike...

Author: Beverley Trounce
ISBN: 9781803994659
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A powerful book collating memories of the Miners’ Strike, encompassing pickets, collieries and communities, forty...  Read More >>

Engineers in Germany: Social Situation, Mentalities and Politics 1890-1933

Engineers in Germany: Social Situation, Mentalities...

Author: Tobias Sander
ISBN: 9783658417963
Format: Paperback
$206.97

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UNITE History Volumes 1-6

UNITE History Volumes 1-6

Author: Mary Davis ,  John Foster
ISBN: 9781835532287
Format: Paperback
$158.37

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Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870-1919

Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking...

Author: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9781009016940
Format: Paperback
$69.84

Drawing on German, English, Japanese and Chinese primary sources, Ghassan Moazzin explores how foreign banks financially...  Read More >>

Urban Life in Nordic Countries

Urban Life in Nordic Countries

Author: Heiko Droste (Stockholm University, Sweden)
ISBN: 9781032387215
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Based on empirical studies, this book investigates the particular urban history of the North from the 17th century...  Read More >>

Mines of the Gwydyr Forest: Metal Mining Ventures in the Heart of North Wales

Mines of the Gwydyr Forest: Metal Mining Ventures in...

Author: Robert Vernon
ISBN: 9781838362126
Format: Paperback
$163.68

The updated and revised second edition of this popular series edition published in one volume provides a history...  Read More >>

Poverty, Children and the Poor Law in Industrial Belfast, 1880-1918

Poverty, Children and the Poor Law in Industrial Belfast,...

Author: Olwen Purdue ,  Georgina Laragy
ISBN: 9781800855427
Format: Hardback
$284.63

The late nineteenth-century city acted as a magnet for the poor of rural Ireland, attracting them with the promise...  Read More >>

The Long Millennium: Affluence, Architecture and Its Dark Matter Economy

The Long Millennium: Affluence, Architecture and Its...

Author: Mark Jarzombek
ISBN: 9781032244167
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This history of the ‘long’ first millennium CE, from the period of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the Colonial...  Read More >>

Networks of Influence and Power: Business, Culture and Identity in Liverpool's Merchant Community, c.1800 to 1914

Networks of Influence and Power: Business, Culture and...

Author: Robert Lee
ISBN: 9781409406082
Format: Hardback
$452.00

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The Long Millennium: Affluence, Architecture and Its Dark Matter Economy

The Long Millennium: Affluence, Architecture and Its...

Author: Mark Jarzombek
ISBN: 9781032244143
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This history of the ‘long’ first millennium CE, from the period of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the Colonial...  Read More >>

Pestilence, Insanity, and Trees: How Stephen Smith Changed New York

Pestilence, Insanity, and Trees: How Stephen Smith Changed...

Author: John M. Harris Jr.
ISBN: 9781032603940
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This is the first full-length biography of New York surgeon and social activist Stephen Smith (1823–1922), who was...  Read More >>

The Coming of New Industrial Society: Reloaded

The Coming of New Industrial Society: Reloaded

Author: Sergey Bodrunov ,  Tomi Haxhi Haxhi
ISBN: 9798887192864
Format: Hardback
$115.00

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Lead Mining Land the Northern Pennines: Astride Auden's Watershed

Lead Mining Land the Northern Pennines: Astride Auden's...

Author: Judith Milton ,  Chrissie Peters
ISBN: 9781399952767
Format: Paperback
$43.96

An informal, informative introduction to lead mining in the Northern Pennines.  Read More >>

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