Industrialisation & industrial history books

Die westdeutsche Atomindustrie der 1970er Jahre hatte ein Absatzproblem: Nachdem sie in den 1950er und 1960er Jahren...  Read More >>

In den Jahren zwischen 1800 und 1870 wurden die Weichen fur eine neue Epoche gestellt. Industrialisierung, Staatsreform...  Read More >>

Influenza was the great killer of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the so-called 'Russian flu' killed...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1972, The University and British Industry looks at the impact of industry on the development...  Read More >>

First published in 1924. This book provides a balanced picture of Trade Unionism as it was in the 1920s. The study...  Read More >>

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Traces the birth and growth of the early coal and coke industry from 1870 to 1920, primarily in Fayette and Westmoreland...  Read More >>

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Originating in archaic parables of the Garden and the Citadel, gender allegories have been projected upon built...  Read More >>

""This book explores how the convergence of American industrialization and the influx of immigrant workers helped...  Read More >>

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An active-participant account of the final ten years of Swindon Works – bringing to an end 147 years of railway...  Read More >>

This volume brings the history of the environment together with that of work. Faced with the “great acceleration”...  Read More >>

Most of the time, when you sit down with a book of history, you are going to be reading about men. Men who win wars...  Read More >>

This book offers a comprehensive history of the Czechoslovak Ocean Shipping Company (C. O. S.) from its beginning...  Read More >>

A new approach to economic history that focuses on four aspects: manufacture, technology, luxury, and global trade....  Read More >>

This edited volume assembles the most up-to-date research on the design and construction of ancient cities in the...  Read More >>

By examining the manufacturing, commercial, and cultural activities of the maverick industrialist Chen Diexian (1879–1940),...  Read More >>

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This book, first published in 1985, tackles questions about the course of industrial evolution: what are the features...  Read More >>

Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s London factories. The Sugar Girls went straight to number...  Read More >>

This monograph traces the journey of Bengal textiles that were in great demand world-wide from the mid-seventeenth...  Read More >>

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The book draws together theory in the field and implications for practice in landscape architecture and concludes...  Read More >>

A history of and guided walks through the industrial heritage of Cromford, Derbyshire  Read More >>