Industrialisation & industrial history books

Focusing on urban development and the influence of urbanization on industrialization, this volume reflects a radical...  Read More >>

Building on the theory of the demographic transition, Michael S. Teitelbaum assesses the dramatic decline in British...  Read More >>

During the twentieth century, the Soviet Union turned the Kola Peninsula into one of the most populated, industrialized,...  Read More >>

With England’s Great Transformation, Marc W. Steinberg throws a wrench into our understanding of the English Industrial...  Read More >>

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With England’s Great Transformation, Marc W. Steinberg throws a wrench into our understanding of the English Industrial...  Read More >>

While the success of Disneyland is largely credited to Walt and Roy Disney, there was a third, mostly forgotten...  Read More >>

This book, originally published in 1996, traces the development of US government policy toward the oil industry...  Read More >>

Questions of survival and loss bedevil the study of early printed books. Many early publications are not particularly...  Read More >>

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"To the Edge of the World is an adventure in travel--full of extraordinary personalities, more than a century of...  Read More >>

With over half the world's population now living in cities, urbanization is one of the defining features of the...  Read More >>

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

The book aims to understand work participation in the workplace or worker voice by examining the inter-war experience...  Read More >>

Richly comprehensive history, featuring more than 100 photographs and contemporary prints. Involving struggles against...  Read More >>

Shows the growth of iron making from the Middle Ages, covering the importation of blast-furnace methods in the fifteenth...  Read More >>

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From the late 1940s to the early 1970s, farmers in the Corn Belt transformed their region into a new, industrial...  Read More >>

This book has grown out of an oral history project, 'The End of the Shift', which aims to record the working practices...  Read More >>

In this illustrated history, Alastair Cameron explores the history and heritage of the slate mining industry in...  Read More >>

Mapping Space, Sense, and Movement in Florence explores the potential of digital mapping or Historical GIS as a...  Read More >>

Organized thematically, this study explores alcoholic drink through its consumption, sale, function, use and abuse....  Read More >>

This book offers the first encounter between labour history and military history, with an analysis of the working...  Read More >>

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Lavishly illustrated with unique images from the official company archive, this book charts more than 100 years...  Read More >>