Industrialisation & industrial history books

"Described as ""the best MP Scotland never had"", Jimmy Reid was one of the most important figures of twentieth-century...  Read More >>

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Prior to 1914, wars had been comparatively small affairs using relatively small amounts of military supplies and,...  Read More >>

The definitive account of a landmark in the development of democracy - and the bloodiest political event of the...  Read More >>

Pick, shovel, dynamite: the classic account of the men who built the railways.  Read More >>

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In the 16th century, glass manufacture increased and benefited from technological development (largely brought by...  Read More >>

Five Parishes in Late Medieval and Tudor London presents linked microhistorical studies of five London parishes,...  Read More >>

Florence in the Early Modern World offers new perspectives on this important city by exploring the broader global...  Read More >>

Few other cities can compare with Rome's history of continuous habitation, nor with the survival of so many different...  Read More >>

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Saint Katherine of Alexandria was - after the Virgin Mary - arguably the most important female religious figure...  Read More >>

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The essays in this volume shed new light on the corporate system of guilds in the Low Countries, identifying its...  Read More >>

Ginn approaches cultural philanthropy not simply as a project of class self-interest, nor as fanciful ‘missionary...  Read More >>

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This book re-evaluates the contribution of the urban park to our civic history and considers their impact on patterns...  Read More >>

"Some of the richest gold strikes in California history were found in the areas of Randsburg and Johannesburg, located...  Read More >>

Relying on a range of visual and written sources, Gender, Space, and the Gaze offers fresh ways of considering how...  Read More >>

The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time  Read More >>

The Snowy: A History tells theextraordinary story of the mostly migrant workforce who built one of theworld's engineering...  Read More >>

For over 130 years, Imperial Oil dominated Canada's oil industry. Their 1947 discovery of crude oil in Leduc, Alberta...  Read More >>

A nuts and bolts history of engineering enterprise in the first half of the nineteenth century, based on the life...  Read More >>