Industrialisation & industrial history books

2411 books were found.

Reframing Technology: An Intellectual History of Thinking Beyond the Machine

Reframing Technology: An Intellectual History of Thinking...

Author: Kent Hufford
ISBN: 9783111396118
Format: Hardback
$266.61

Reframing Technology is an intellectual history about a shift in the way Americans tell stories about technology....  Read More >>

Happy Apocalypse: A History of Technological Risk

Happy Apocalypse: A History of Technological Risk

Author: Jean-Baptiste Fressoz ,  David Broder
ISBN: 9781839765506
Format: Hardback
$40.00

How risk, disasters and pollution were managed and made acceptable during the Industrial Revolution  Read More >>

s.s. Neath Abbey: A Bristol Channel Coasting Steamer

s.s. Neath Abbey: A Bristol Channel Coasting Steamer...

Author: Allan Sutcliffe
ISBN: 9781789634464
Format: Paperback
$58.05

The construction, working life and shipwreck of one of the many ships that plied their trade around the English...  Read More >>

s.s. Neath Abbey: A Bristol Channel Coasting Steamer

s.s. Neath Abbey: A Bristol Channel Coasting Steamer...

Author: Allan Sutcliffe
ISBN: 9781789634471
Format: Hardback
$79.17

The construction, working life and shipwreck of one of the many ships that plied their trade around the English...  Read More >>

The City of Rainbows: A Colourful History of Prince Rupert

The City of Rainbows: A Colourful History of Prince...

Author: Blair Mirau
ISBN: 9781772034752
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Since time immemorial, rain has defined life on Kaien Island, now known as the townsite of Prince Rupert. As the...  Read More >>

Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American Rust Belt

Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American...

Author: Amanda McMillan Lequieu
ISBN: 9780231198752
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Through the cases of the former steel manufacturing hub of southeast Chicago and a shuttered mining community in...  Read More >>

Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American Rust Belt

Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American...

Author: Amanda McMillan Lequieu
ISBN: 9780231198745
Format: Hardback
$232.95

Through the cases of the former steel manufacturing hub of southeast Chicago and a shuttered mining community in...  Read More >>

Management and Labor Conflict: An Introduction to the US and Canadian History

Management and Labor Conflict: An Introduction to the...

Author: Jason Russell
ISBN: 9781032391281
Format: Paperback
$41.99

This book shows that there were key points of convergence and divergence in the past between the United States and...  Read More >>

Butterworth: A Case Study of Apartheid Industrial Decentralisation and Democratic De-Industralisation, 1968 to 2007

Butterworth: A Case Study of Apartheid Industrial Decentralisation...

Author: Jongikhaya Mvenene
ISBN: 9781776151073
Format: Paperback
$29.70

Takes the reader back to the era of industrialisation during the time of apartheid in South Africa. The book makes...  Read More >>

Industrialization in West Africa

Industrialization in West Africa

Author: J O C Onyemelukwe
ISBN: 9781032764115
Format: Hardback
$194.00

First published in 1984, Industrialization in West Africa is an authoritative text on the industrial development...  Read More >>

The Rise and Fall of the Freedman's Savings Bank: And its Lasting Socio-Economic Impact on Black America

The Rise and Fall of the Freedman's Savings Bank: And...

Author: Rodney A. Brooks
ISBN: 9781910151495
Format: Paperback
$45.10

Tells the history of the Freedman’s Savings Bank, how it grew much too quickly, why it failed and the impact on...  Read More >>

Manufacturing Catastrophe: Massachusetts and the Making of Global Capitalism, 1813 to the Present

Manufacturing Catastrophe: Massachusetts and the Making...

Author: Shaun S. Nichols (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Boise State University)
ISBN: 9780197665329
Format: Paperback
$56.95

American economic history has traditionally been told as a narrative of industrialization and affluence collapsing...  Read More >>

Nordic Welfare Cities: Negotiating Urban Citizenship since 1850

Nordic Welfare Cities: Negotiating Urban Citizenship...

Author: Magnus Linnarsson ,  Mats Hallenberg
ISBN: 9781032459110
Format: Hardback
$294.00

This book examines Nordic cities from 1850 and their transformation from traditional, oligarchic towns to modern,...  Read More >>

Made in Manchester: A People’s History of the City That Shaped the Modern World

Made in Manchester: A People’s History of the City That...

Author: Brian Groom
ISBN: 9780008608521
Format: Hardback
$56.93

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Publishers, Censors and Collectors in the European Book Trade, 1650–1750

Publishers, Censors and Collectors in the European Book...

Author: Ann-Marie Hansen ,  Arthur Weduwen
ISBN: 9789004691933
Format: Hardback
$599.28

This edited volume explores the development of the European book world between 1650 and 1750, concentrating on changes...  Read More >>

Soviet Russia: An Introduction

Soviet Russia: An Introduction

Author: Jacob Miller
ISBN: 9781032674773
Format: Hardback
$183.00

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Petroleum from Coal: A Century of Synthesis

Petroleum from Coal: A Century of Synthesis

Author: Anthony Stranges
ISBN: 9789004544116
Format: Hardback
$506.88

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The Shadow of the Mine: Coal and the End of Industrial Britain

The Shadow of the Mine: Coal and the End of Industrial...

Author: Ray Hudson ,  Huw Beynon
ISBN: 9781839767982
Format: Paperback
$32.99

The Miners' Strike - 40 Years On  Read More >>

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and...

Author: Malcolm Harris
ISBN: 9781529430912
Format: Paperback
$26.99

The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley  Read More >>

Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea

Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change...

Author: Yong-Chool Ha ,  Clark W. Sorensen
ISBN: 9780295752273
Format: Paperback
$64.99

South Korea's rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaebol (family-owned business conglomerates)...  Read More >>

Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea

Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change...

Author: Yong-Chool Ha ,  Clark W. Sorensen
ISBN: 9780295752266
Format: Hardback
$216.99

South Korea's rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaebol (family-owned business conglomerates)...  Read More >>

Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of Americas Biggest Retail Stores

Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of Americas Biggest...

Author: Bart Elmore ,  Rachel S. Gross
ISBN: 9781646425938
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Big Box USA presents a new look at how the big box retail store has dramatically reshaped the US economy and its...  Read More >>

Ships of State: Literature and the Seaman's Labour in Proto-Imperial Britain

Ships of State: Literature and the Seaman's Labour in...

Author: Laurie Ellinghausen
ISBN: 9781487529475
Format: Hardback
$135.00

Ships of State analyses representations of seaborne labour across popular literary genres during the early years...  Read More >>

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