Industrialisation & industrial history books

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This book explores the genesis, development and collapse of London’s controversial post-war plans for urban motorways,...  Read More >>

In this volume, some of the leading figures in the field have been brought together to write on the roots of the...  Read More >>

Shows how during the 1980s Sheffield, once the steel centre of the world, endured startling industrial changes that...  Read More >>

In this volume, some of the leading figures in the field have been brought together to write on the roots of the...  Read More >>

Fellow Travellers considers the origins and development of the Communist presence among French railway workers,...  Read More >>

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The oil price collapse of 1985-6 had momentous global consequences: non-fossil energy sources quickly became uncompetitive,...  Read More >>

This title was first published in 2000. Practised since the Middle Ages, it is only over the course of the last...  Read More >>

A discussion of art institutions in Victorian London. Eleven scholars, experts on the individual institutions, analyze...  Read More >>

A History of Siena provides a concise and up-to-date biography of the city, from its medieval development through...  Read More >>

Richard Menke links media innovation to imaginative literature, making the case for writers from Whitman to Twain,...  Read More >>

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A global guide to sewers that celebrates the magnificently designed and engineered structures beneath the world's...  Read More >>

Through the study of the professional trade association of the rigattieri (second-hand dealers), this book explores...  Read More >>

A new history of ingenuity from the author of The Secret Lives of Colour.  Read More >>

Celebrate the heyday of passenger rail travel around Britain with this beautiful Times railway book.  Read More >>

Historical Studies in Industrial Relations was established in 1996 by the Centre for Industrial Relations, Keele...  Read More >>

Detailed analysis of railway operating practices and layouts and of colliery history and production tonnages.  Read More >>

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Women's emancipation through productive labour was a key tenet of socialist politics in post-World War II Yugoslavia....  Read More >>

A centenary tribute to Britain's trailblazing, boundary-breaking women engineers  Read More >>