Industrialisation & industrial history books

This classic work has been updated by the addition of a detailed narrative on the conservation and restoration of...  Read More >>

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Drawing on a body of research covering primarily Europe and the Americas, but stretching also to Asia and Africa,...  Read More >>

This book refines the history of globalisation by considering the variety of mobile people passing through and near...  Read More >>

This short history tells the story of five hundred years of papermaking against the general background of the coming...  Read More >>

The history of the post office involves many of the most significant themes in the social, economic and political...  Read More >>

This account of the extraordinary growth of the Greek ship-operating industry following the Second World War is...  Read More >>

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When the war against Japan blocked trade routes inside China, these networks were concentrated in Shanghai where...  Read More >>

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This book deals with two key aspects of the history of steam engines, a cornerstone of the Industrial Revolution,...  Read More >>

A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume II offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social...  Read More >>

This book provides a clear historical and theoretical framework for reading three important novels published in...  Read More >>

Europe's infrastructure both united and divided peoples and places via economic systems, crises, and wars. Europe's...  Read More >>

For more than a century, accounts of progress in the West foregrounded the technological feats performed while canals...  Read More >>

Explores the untold side of a well-known American story. This book salvages stories often omitted from the triumphant...  Read More >>

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Coventry has a remarkable bicycle manufacturing heritage. From the first velocipedes built in 1868, the city went...  Read More >>

Marx's Rebellion Against Lenin, by negating the Leninist-Stalinist theory of dialectical materialism and tracing...  Read More >>

"This follow-up in the first Mine to Mill book continues the exploration of the American iron ore trade on the Great...  Read More >>

The industrial revolution was and is a huge development and one of the fundamental changes in human experience in...  Read More >>

The industrial revolution was and is a huge development and one of the fundamental changes in human experience in...  Read More >>

""In this ode to Connecticut's Naugatuck River Valley, vibrant photos and moving poetry relate the region's legendary...  Read More >>

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The Iron Range earned its name honestly: it was once among the world's richest iron ore mining districts. The Iron...  Read More >>