Industrialisation & industrial history books

While various aspects of violence (warfare, murder, theft, piracy) have been long studied on their own, there has...  Read More >>

A History of the Lewis Chemical Works, Isle of Lewis which was operational from 1857 - 1874.  Read More >>

Cet ouvrage rend compte des formes de restauration ferroviaire par des etudes sur la diversite des cultures, les...  Read More >>

First book of its kind; detailing mining disasters from the 1900s to the 1980s  Read More >>

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Covers preserved steam machinery.  Read More >>

For countless generations prior to European contact, land and territory informed Haundenosaunee thought and philosophy,...  Read More >>

"."".. the careers of three pioneering businesswomen--Tillie Lewis (founder of Flotill Products), Olive Ann Beech...  Read More >>

In this masterful synthesis, Charalambos Bouras draws together material and textual evidence for Athens in the Middle...  Read More >>

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

In Newspaper City, Phillip Gordon Mackintosh scrutinizes the reluctance of early Torontonians to pave their streets....  Read More >>

This text demonstrates how the sexualized image of Berlin in Weimar Germany arose at the same time as radical social...  Read More >>

Examining the fifteenth-century Florentine palazzo, this book considers the buildings comprehensively as complete...  Read More >>

In this surprising new look at how clothing, style, and commerce came together to change American culture, Jennifer...  Read More >>

Explores the nineteenth- and twentieth-century spread of modern industry to the global periphery to understand the...  Read More >>

Their parents worked as miners and lace workers, but by the mid-twentieth century new opportunities beckoned for...  Read More >>

This book is a history and technical description of Palmer Mills which were cotton spinning mills in the town of...  Read More >>

Provides fresh insight into various practices of managerial control from the 1880s to the present and their effects...  Read More >>

Despite much recent interest in the area of urban governance, little work has been done on the changing ethical...  Read More >>

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American evangelicalism has long walked hand in hand with modern consumer capitalism. Timothy Gloege shows us why,...  Read More >>

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Chadderton Mill, built 1884-85, was one of the many cotton spinning mills in Oldham, Lancashire. When it closed...  Read More >>

This volume considers the role of states in explaining patterns of continuity and change in labour relations across...  Read More >>