Industrialisation & industrial history books

James Watt is celebrated as the inventor of the energy efficient pumping and rotative steam engines. Studies of...  Read More >>

Die Dortmund-Horder Huttenunion (DHHU) war neben Hoesch das zweite groae Unternehmen der Dortmunder Eisen- und Stahlindustrie....  Read More >>

This book presents an integrated history of the guilds in the Southern Netherlands, connecting political history,...  Read More >>

New Perspectives on Welsh Industrial History is a collection of eight essays examining different aspects of industrial...  Read More >>

Late medieval and early modern cities are often depicted as cradles of artistic creativity and hotbeds of new material...  Read More >>

The studies included in this volume focus on the monuments of two cities in Roman Spain, Emerita (now Mérida) and...  Read More >>

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Exploring the relationship between postindustrial writing and developments in energy production, manufacturing,...  Read More >>

This book deals with two key aspects of the history of steam engines, a cornerstone of the Industrial Revolution,...  Read More >>

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Cities and Solidarities charts the ways in which the study of individuals and places revitalises our understanding...  Read More >>

This book is the first study of port labor in colonial Calcutta and British India. Drawing on primary source material,...  Read More >>

Urban studies has been engulfed by a creative city narrative in which concepts like the creative economy, the creative...  Read More >>

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Based on the papers of a personnel executive, the memoir of an African American employee, interviews, and company...  Read More >>

Places is a microhistory study of village settlements in early modern Northwest Italy that aims to expand the notion...  Read More >>

An important new study with a vast scope: the people and events that made the achievements of Stephenson and Brunel...  Read More >>

"In the earliest decades of the 20th century, more than twenty-eight million men and women--black and white--began...  Read More >>

Empire of Gunsexpertly brings to life a bustling industrial society with a human story at its heart to offer a radically...  Read More >>

This reissue (1990) commemorates one of the most notable economic historians of his age. These essays cover period...  Read More >>

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Dr Chaloner considers economic history to be a branch of what the French call the historical sciences. In this collection...  Read More >>

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This title was first published in 2002: This collection of essays looks at how the urban environment was fundamental...  Read More >>