Industrialisation & industrial history books

Adopting Argentina’s rebellion as a case study, The Mobilization and Demobilization of Middle-Class Revolt uses...  Read More >>

Interest in the history of the workplace is on the rise. This book focuses on the new approaches in this important...  Read More >>

This book analyzes wildfire preparedness and policy in Australia. Drawing on data from interviews with residents,...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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

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

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 >>

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

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

This seminal book reveals how black labour was exploited in twentieth-century South Africa, the human costs of which...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

With the Empire gone, Brexit looming and the break-up of the United Kingdom itself a real possibility, there's no...  Read More >>