Industrialisation & industrial history books

It demonstrates that developments in technology, commerce, and infrastructure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth...  Read More >>

Many books have been devoted to the life of those in domestic service in such houses, but this book looks not so...  Read More >>

The Jackson Project is a dramatic, hard-hitting account of a brutal laboUr dispute at a West Tennessee textile mill....  Read More >>

A beautifully illustrated guide to the trains that took over as the Age of Steam was drawing to a close in the 1950s....  Read More >>

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Investigating how - water - was 'conquered' by draining fens and marshes, straightening the courses of rivers, building...  Read More >>

In 1831 John Dodgson Carr, son of a Quaker grocer, set off to walk from his home in Kendal to Carlisle, determined...  Read More >>

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This book details the history of Robert Walker Haulage's success, including many anecdotes and 185 previously unprinted...  Read More >>

A unique pictorial exploration of Australia's railways  Read More >>

For nearly seventy years, John J. Young Jr. photographed railroads. With unparalleled scope and span, he documented...  Read More >>

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Tourism is a major industry of Central Australia today. It is of national and international significance and interestingly...  Read More >>

The First World War was above all a war of logistics. Whilst the conflict will forever be remembered for the mud...  Read More >>

First published in 1985, this book explores the social history of the Irish in Britain across a variety of cities,...  Read More >>

First published in 1965, this book explores Oxford in the Victorian period, providing accounts of the development...  Read More >>

First published in 1982, this study explores the dynamics of class formation during the vital decades between 1830...  Read More >>

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The rise of China is no doubt one of the most important events in world economic history since the Industrial Revolution....  Read More >>

The rise of China is no doubt one of the most important events in world economic history since the Industrial Revolution....  Read More >>

Based on extensive archival research, The Wobblies in their Heyday looks at the union during the World War I era...  Read More >>

Be it eyeglasses or telescopes, camera or movie lenses, microscopes or microsurgical instruments, the ZEISS brand...  Read More >>

An enlightened commentary on British society in the years after the end of Empire.  Read More >>

The 1973 'Oil Shock' is considered a turning point in the history of the twentieth century. This book provides an...  Read More >>