Industrialisation & industrial history books

Telegraphy and railroads bound the Southwest to the United States in the nineteenth century. They forever redrew...  Read More >>

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Broadens understandings of early colonial and Native American history by turning attention to the ways that mining...  Read More >>

Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape...  Read More >>

Examines the establishment of the dairy industry in the United States South during the 1920s. Alan Marcus suggests...  Read More >>

Sam Coverly was an entrepreneur and an adventurous traveler. His trading took him to China and England, to Montreal...  Read More >>

Questioning long-standing dichotomies between East and West and embracing a capacious understanding of translatio...  Read More >>

Questioning long-standing dichotomies between East and West and embracing a capacious understanding of translatio...  Read More >>

The book describes the complex interplay of black protest, federal policy, and management action in a crucial space...  Read More >>

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A fascinating combination of biographical material about the great Scottish engineer Thomas Telford (1757–1834),...  Read More >>

Brings the diverse energy histories of North and South American nations into dialogue with one another, presenting...  Read More >>

Contrasts two types of neighbourhoods that transformed Michigan's mining frontier between 1875 and 1920: paternalistic...  Read More >>

How the American airship came within a hair’s breadth of replacing planes, trains, and ocean liners as dominant...  Read More >>

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Maurice Broomfield (1916-2010) was a humanist photographer of the heroic and sublime - and sometimes surreal - qualities...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Rural Life brings together the latest research on peasantry in medieval Europe....  Read More >>

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Presents the history of the American jet aircraft manufacturing industry from World War II to 1972, documenting...  Read More >>

Robert Dudley Best (1892-1984) had a ringside seat at the birth of the Modern Movement in England and this remarkable...  Read More >>

Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021) is about the past and present of home-based work and homebased...  Read More >>

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Japan's national identity associates the ‘Japanese people’ with the Japanese land, making the farmer the backbone...  Read More >>

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