Industrialisation & industrial history books

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Colchester at Work is a fascinating pictorial history of the working life of the Essex town of Colchester in the...  Read More >>

Set within a wider British and international context of post-war reconstruction, The Everyday Experiences of Reconstruction...  Read More >>

Planning Labour explores the early socialist industrialization and the implementation of central economic planning...  Read More >>

100 Innovations of the Industrial Revolution celebrates the major inventions and projects of the period 1700-1860:...  Read More >>

James Hamilton-Paterson turns his literary and analytical skills to the wider picture of Britain's lost industrial...  Read More >>

A comprehensive history of the industries of the Granite City of Aberdeen  Read More >>

This collection aims to correct the imbalance of London-dominated periodicals by investigating the development,...  Read More >>

This volume crosses geographical as well as chronological divides in order to emphasise the mutability of the social...  Read More >>

Comprising nineteen papers taken from a conference held at Worcester College, Oxford in 2000, this book focuses...  Read More >>

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This book provides a detailed account of how Bristol was transformed by a growing population, industrial change,...  Read More >>

The purpose of this study is to explore how automobile manufacturer General Motors (GM) has framed its corporate...  Read More >>

Underground Empires examines how Chinese views of strategic mineral resources developed in the last decades of the...  Read More >>

West German Industrialists and the Making of the Economic Miracle investigates the mentality of post-war German...  Read More >>

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This is the first book on the early woollens’ industry. Based on original research, it explains how the eventual...  Read More >>

The more people are living in cities, the more nature is said to be ""urbanizing"": turned into a resource or commodity...  Read More >>

In spite of the popularity she enjoyed during her lifetime, Charlotte Riddell (1832-1906) has received little attention...  Read More >>

With its focus on a contested political field, this book contributes to practical and theoretical debates within...  Read More >>

Cities, Railways, Modernities presents the transformation of 19th-century London and Paris in the light of the futures...  Read More >>

Focusing on Berlin’s destruction during WWII and its reconstruction, this book offers a rethinking of how the practices...  Read More >>

This book explores the development of the putting-out system in hand-woven textile industries in late Qing Dynasty...  Read More >>