Industrialisation & industrial history books

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Hot Metal: Material Culture and Tangible Labour

Hot Metal: Material Culture and Tangible Labour
Author: Jesse Adams Stein , Bill Sherman ISBN: 9781784994341 Format: Hardback	$183.99
Hot Metal focuses on the experience of Australian print-workers between the 1960s and 1980s, concentrating on labour,... Read More >>

Tales of the Iron Bloomery: Ironmaking in Southeastern Norway - Foundation of Statehood c. AD 700-1300

Tales of the Iron Bloomery: Ironmaking in Southeastern...
Author: Bernt Rundberget ISBN: 9789004278790 Format: Hardback	$496.32
In Tales of the Iron Bloomery Bernt Rundberget argues that the ironmaking of southern Hedmark was an important basis... Read More >>

Express, Mail & Merchandise Service

Express, Mail & Merchandise Service
Author: Jeff Wilson ISBN: 9781627003780 Format: Paperback	$43.99
Express, Mail & Merchandise Service describes rail express service and merchandise traffic on railroads from the... Read More >>

Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World

Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World...
Author: Liam Matthew Brockey ISBN: 9781138249622 Format: Paperback	$105.00
A collection of essays on the cities of the Portuguese empire that focuses on the social, political, and economic... Read More >>

Plague Hospitals: Public Health for the City in Early Modern Venice

Plague Hospitals: Public Health for the City in Early...
Author: Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw ISBN: 9781138245891 Format: Paperback	$114.00
Lazaretti, or plague hospitals, took on a central role in early modern responses to epidemic disease. An in-depth... Read More >>

Work, Society and Politics: The Culture of the Factory in Later Victorian England

Work, Society and Politics: The Culture of the Factory...
Author: Patrick Joyce ISBN: 9781911204497 Format: Paperback	$68.99
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Electric Worlds / Mondes électriques: Creations, Circulations, Tensions, Transitions (19th–21st C.)

Electric Worlds / Mondes électriques: Creations, Circulations,...
Author: Alain Beltran , Pierre Lanthier ISBN: 9782875743305 Format: Paperback	$149.30
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Work, Society and Politics: The Culture of the Factory in Later Victorian England

Work, Society and Politics: The Culture of the Factory...
Author: Patrick Joyce ISBN: 9781911204503 Format: Hardback	$79.99
With a new Preface by the author. The acclaimed major interpretation of 19th century society and politics concerning... Read More >>

Neo-historical East Berlin: Architecture and Urban Design in the German Democratic Republic 1970-1990

Neo-historical East Berlin: Architecture and Urban Design...
Author: Florian Urban ISBN: 9781138252936 Format: Paperback	$105.00
Drawing from recently released archival sources and interviews with former key government officials, decision-makers... Read More >>

The Industrial Turn in World History

The Industrial Turn in World History
Author: Peter Stearns (George Mason University, USA) ISBN: 9781138672864 Format: Paperback	$79.99
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The Place of the Social Margins, 1350-1750

The Place of the Social Margins, 1350-1750
Author: Andrew Spicer (Oxford Brookes University, UK) , Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw (Oxford Brookes University, UK) ISBN: 9781138790728 Format: Hardback	$315.00
This volume crosses geographical as well as chronological divides in order to emphasise the mutability of the social... Read More >>

Waves of Prosperity: India, China and the West – How Global Trade Transformed The World

Waves of Prosperity: India, China and the West – How...
Author: Greg Clydesdale ISBN: 9781472139009 Format: Paperback	$36.99
A history of the rise and fall of the world's riches nations from China in the days of Marco Polo to the fortunes... Read More >>

The Industrial Turn in World History

The Industrial Turn in World History
Author: Peter Stearns (George Mason University, USA) ISBN: 9781138672857 Format: Hardback	$315.00
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Airports, Cities, and the Jet Age: US Airports Since 1945

Airports, Cities, and the Jet Age: US Airports Since...
Author: Janet R. Bednarek , James Fleming ISBN: 9783319311944 Format: Hardback	$369.57
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Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution

Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution...
Author: A.D. Morrison-Low ISBN: 9781138248540 Format: Paperback	$114.00
At the start of the Industrial Revolution, it appeared that most scientific instruments were made and sold in London,... Read More >>

Food and the City in Europe since 1800

Food and the City in Europe since 1800
Author: Peter Lummel , Peter J. Atkins ISBN: 9781138274198 Format: Paperback	$105.00
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The Life of the City: Space, Humour, and the Experience of Truth in Fin-de-siècle Montmartre

The Life of the City: Space, Humour, and the Experience...
Author: Julian Brigstocke ISBN: 9781138250772 Format: Paperback	$105.00
The Life of the City is a bold and innovative reassessment of the early urban avant-garde movements that sought... Read More >>

The River Pollution Dilemma in Victorian England: Nuisance Law versus Economic Efficiency

The River Pollution Dilemma in Victorian England: Nuisance...
Author: Leslie Rosenthal ISBN: 9781138246188 Format: Paperback	$50.99
Nineteenth-century Britain witnessed a dramatic increase in its urban population, as a hitherto largely rural economy... Read More >>

Who Ran the Cities?: City Elites and Urban Power Structures in Europe and North America, 1750–1940

Who Ran the Cities?: City Elites and Urban Power Structures...
Author: Ralf Roth , Robert Beachy ISBN: 9781138274051 Format: Paperback	$105.00
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Negotiating the French Pox in Early Modern Germany

Negotiating the French Pox in Early Modern Germany
Author: Claudia Stein ISBN: 9781138253230 Format: Paperback	$114.00
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Acid Rain and the Rise of the Environmental Chemist in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Life and Work of Robert Angus Smith

Acid Rain and the Rise of the Environmental Chemist...
Author: Peter Reed ISBN: 9781138247215 Format: Paperback	$105.00
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Unlearning the Colonial Cultures of Planning

Unlearning the Colonial Cultures of Planning
Author: Libby Porter ISBN: 9781138253049 Format: Paperback	$114.00
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The Printed Image in Early Modern London: Urban Space, Visual Representation, and Social Exchange

The Printed Image in Early Modern London: Urban Space,...
Author: Joseph Monteyne ISBN: 9781138247147 Format: Paperback	$114.00
Presenting an inventive body of research that explores the connections between urban movements, space, and visual... Read More >>

The Making of an Indian Metropolis: Colonial Governance and Public Culture in Bombay, 1890-1920

The Making of an Indian Metropolis: Colonial Governance...
Author: Prashant Kidambi ISBN: 9781138245990 Format: Paperback	$105.00
Discusses the social history of colonial Bombay in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. Based on a range of archival... Read More >>

Resources of the City: Contributions to an Environmental History of Modern Europe

Resources of the City: Contributions to an Environmental...
Author: Bill Luckin , Dieter Schott ISBN: 9781138249523 Format: Paperback	$105.00
Topics covered by the essays in this volume include: a metabolic approach to the city; the struggle for urban space;... Read More >>

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