Industrialisation & industrial history books

The Age of Coal describes the enormous contribution of coal to the history of Europe over the last 250 years and...  Read More >>

A lyrical tour of life as a young working-class man born into the first days of the 20th century, Caliban Shrieks...  Read More >>

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

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The emergence, dominance, and alarmingly rapid retreat of modernist industrial capitalism on Cape Breton Island...  Read More >>

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

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The war in Ukraine, with the exposure of nuclear power stations and the danger of atomic warfare, has made the legacy...  Read More >>

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La presente selecci�n de textos de Charles Fourier (1772-1837) surge de su obra El nuevo mundo industrial y societario,...  Read More >>

In 1841, the Royal Institution of South Wales founded the first museum in Wales. Specialist authors describe its...  Read More >>

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A unique perspective on the 1984 85 UK Miners' Strike from a husband-and-wife team who reported on it in person...  Read More >>

A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE Restores China’s place in forest history The disappearance of China’s naturally...  Read More >>

In most studies of British decolonisation, the world of labour is neglected, the key roles being allocated to metropolitan...  Read More >>

Established in 1939 by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and farmer Louis Bromfield, Malabar Farm was once considered...  Read More >>

Organized into four sections, this book covers: Theory and Historiography, Geography and Economy, Architecture and...  Read More >>

Argues that the combination of reading and writing with manual tinkering and scientific observation promoted in...  Read More >>

Drawing on German, English, Japanese and Chinese primary sources, Ghassan Moazzin explores how foreign banks financially...  Read More >>

A powerful book collating memories of the Miners’ Strike, encompassing pickets, collieries and communities, forty...  Read More >>

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A new collection of essays from one of the most influential historians of the twentieth century.  Read More >>

Engineers represent the (industrial) modern age like no other profession. In the German Empire and the Weimar Republic,...  Read More >>

Sold as a multi-volume set – the individual volumes are also available for purchase. This is the complete collection...  Read More >>

Based on empirical studies, this book investigates the particular urban history of the North from the 17th century...  Read More >>