Industrialisation & industrial history books

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Neighbours of Passage: A Microhistory of Migrants in a Paris Tenement, 1882–1932

Neighbours of Passage: A Microhistory of Migrants in...

Author: Fabrice Langrognet
ISBN: 9781032196046
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The book is a sociocultural microhistory of migrants. From the 1880s to the 1930s, it traces the lives of the occupants...  Read More >>

Governance and Public Space in the Australian City: Negotiating Public Order in Brisbane, 1875-1914

Governance and Public Space in the Australian City:...

Author: Anna Temby (University of Queensland, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032484945
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Governance and Public Space in the Australian City is a rich and evocative examination of the production and use...  Read More >>

The Gas Sector in Latin Europe’s Industrial History: Lighting and Heating the World

The Gas Sector in Latin Europe’s Industrial History:...

Author: Ana Cardoso de Matos ,  Alexandre Fernandez
ISBN: 9783031366734
Format: Hardback
$448.77

This volume sheds light on the technical and institutional handicaps that the gas industry had to face since the...  Read More >>

Second City: Birmingham and the Forging of Modern Britain

Second City: Birmingham and the Forging of Modern Britain...

Author: Richard Vinen
ISBN: 9780141993171
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Richard Vinen makes a compelling case for Birmingham as the overlooked heart of British history For over a century,...  Read More >>

The Value of Work since the 18th Century: Custom, Conflict, Measurement and Theory

The Value of Work since the 18th Century: Custom, Conflict,...

Author: Massimo Asta ,  Pedro Ramos Pinto
ISBN: 9781350332072
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Beginning in the 18th century, a turning point in labour history as work encountered an industrialising modernity,...  Read More >>

South Wales Miners: Glowyr de Cymru: A History of the South Wales Miners' Federation, 1898-1914

South Wales Miners: Glowyr de Cymru: A History of the...

Author: Robert Page Arnot
ISBN: 9781032577326
Format: Hardback
$242.00

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Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor

Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor...

Author: Kim Kelly
ISBN: 9781982171063
Format: Paperback
$52.77

An inclusive, character-driven, and deeply researched history of the American labor movement from Teen Vogue labor...  Read More >>

Ludwig Loewe, the Forgotten Pioneer Industrialist of Imperial Berlin: A Life (1837–1886)

Ludwig Loewe, the Forgotten Pioneer Industrialist of...

Author: Heidi Zogbaum
ISBN: 9783631904886
Format: Hardback
$80.21

Ludwig Loewe (1837-1886) laid the foundations for mass production in the German metal industry with the help of...  Read More >>

Workplace Relations in Colonial Bengal: The Jute Industry and Indian Labour 1870s-1930s

Workplace Relations in Colonial Bengal: The Jute Industry...

Author: Anna Sailer (Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany) ,  Janaki Nair
ISBN: 9781350233560
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This book connects the history of labour movements with the transformation of workplace relations in South Asia...  Read More >>

Craftworkers in Nineteenth Century Scotland: Making and Adapting in an Industrial Age

Craftworkers in Nineteenth Century Scotland: Making...

Author: Stana Nenadic
ISBN: 9781474493086
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Explores how artisans and hand skills evolved against a background of technical and commercial modernisation in...  Read More >>

Why the Industrial Revolution Happened in Britain

Why the Industrial Revolution Happened in Britain

Author: Jeremy Black
ISBN: 9781398114494
Format: Hardback
$59.49

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Beyond Piggly Wiggly: Inventing the American Self-Service Store

Beyond Piggly Wiggly: Inventing the American Self-Service...

Author: Lisa C. Tolbert
ISBN: 9780820364414
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Patented in 1917, Piggly Wiggly was the most influential self-service store of the early twentieth century. This...  Read More >>

Progress in Trade Facilitation in CAREC Countries: A 10-Year Corridor Performance Measurement and Monitoring Perspective

Progress in Trade Facilitation in CAREC Countries: A...

Author: Asian Development Bank
ISBN: 9789292698546
Format: Paperback
$73.92

Discusses progress made by the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program's trade facilitation efforts...  Read More >>

Beyond Piggly Wiggly: Inventing the American Self-Service Store

Beyond Piggly Wiggly: Inventing the American Self-Service...

Author: Lisa C. Tolbert
ISBN: 9780820364421
Format: Hardback
$303.47

Patented in 1917, Piggly Wiggly was the most influential self-service store of the early twentieth century. This...  Read More >>

American Artists Engage the Built Environment, 1960-1979

American Artists Engage the Built Environment, 1960-1979...

Author: Susanneh Bieber (School of Architecture at Texas A&M University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032262680
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960s—from minimal and pop art to...  Read More >>

America's Urban History

America's Urban History

Author: Lisa Krissoff Boehm (Emmanuel College, MA, USA) ,  Steven H. Corey
ISBN: 9781032136073
Format: Paperback
$94.99

In this second edition, America’s Urban History now includes contemporary analysis of race, immigration, and cities...  Read More >>

Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860

Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes...

Author: Franco Piperno ,  Simone Caputo
ISBN: 9780367748425
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 presents new perspectives on the role music...  Read More >>

The Battle Against the Luddites: Unrest in the Industrial Revolution During the Napoleonic Wars

The Battle Against the Luddites: Unrest in the Industrial...

Author: Paul L Dawson
ISBN: 9781399052405
Format: Hardback
$75.00

Uncovers the full story of the social unrest that was seen throughout Britain at the times of the Napoleonic Wars....  Read More >>

Losing the Thread: Cotton, Liverpool and the American Civil War

Losing the Thread: Cotton, Liverpool and the American...

Author: Powell
ISBN: 9781837644346
Format: Paperback
$77.60

This is the first full-length study of the effect of the American Civil War on Britain’s raw cotton trade and on...  Read More >>

The Miners: One Union, One Industry: A History of the National Union of Mineworkers 1939-46

The Miners: One Union, One Industry: A History of the...

Author: R. Page Arnot
ISBN: 9781032514550
Format: Hardback
$189.00

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