Industrialisation & industrial history books

This book is about a lost world, albeit one less than 50 years old. It is the story of a grand plan to demolish...  Read More >>

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Suitable for those who wish to understand the effects of the Great War in its fullest context, including the reactions,...  Read More >>

By the end of the 19th century, Paris was widely acknowledged as the cultural capital of the world; Edinburgh, a...  Read More >>

The four national associations studied in this book are the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS),...  Read More >>

Illustrates the variety of ways in which minorities found a place in towns - as citizens, outsiders, or in some...  Read More >>

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Reading the Royal Monument in Eighteenth-Century Europe is the first in-depth study of the major role played by...  Read More >>

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This series of edited papers, first published in 1981, examines Britain’s industrial and commercial performance...  Read More >>

We remember Thomas Edison as the inventor of the incandescent light bulb, but he deserves credit for something much...  Read More >>

This book offers a new perspective on the social history of twentieth-century Europe by investigating the ideals...  Read More >>

An account of a devastating mining disaster, celebrating the 175th...  Read More >>

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Argues that, as industrial mining came of age in the United States, the development of maps and models gave power...  Read More >>

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Drawing on sources from Japanese, Swiss, and American archives, this book tackles a wide range of actors and sheds...  Read More >>

The most flamboyant, consistently dishonest racketeer was Supervisor of Internal Revenue John McDonald, whose organization...  Read More >>

Property is central to any historical analyses of production, reproduction and consumption. It lies at the heart...  Read More >>

Cities have always had a key role in warfare, as strategic centres which periodically suffered the horrors of siege...  Read More >>

Oral testimony is one of the most valuable but challenging sources for the study of modern history, providing access...  Read More >>

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Explores the men behind what was once the largest industrial building in the world.  Read More >>

This book sheds new light on the role of industrial districts in the industrial development of the past and present....  Read More >>