Industrialisation & industrial history books

This volume presents a discussion on the significance of labour-intensive industrialization by leading economic...  Read More >>

The terrible truth behind the history of our railways by Terry Deary, creater of Horrible Histories. Strictly for...  Read More >>

The sugar industry in Trinidad and Tobago has considerably reduced after over 200 years of dominating the landscape....  Read More >>

Drawing on three detailed case studies the sewing machine, a glass bottle blowing factory, and the cyanide process...  Read More >>

Drawing on three detailed case studies the sewing machine, a glass bottle blowing factory, and the cyanide process...  Read More >>

This book is an essential source to rediscover – at the time of a new capitalist crisis – the legacy of the first...  Read More >>

Synthesizing a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán offers a fresh study of...  Read More >>

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A fascinating account of how cotton transformed the world we live in today: it industrialised Europe and became...  Read More >>

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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

In Time, Capitalism and Alienation, Jonathan Martineau provides a socio-historical analysis of the modern temporal...  Read More >>

In this 1835 work, journalist and MP Edward Baines surveys cotton manufacture from its origins to its 'second birth'...  Read More >>

Radical Newcastle brings together short illustrated essays from leading scholars, local historians and present...  Read More >>

Nicholas Daly offers a lively and provocative account of the transformation of culture by the population explosion...  Read More >>

British Tank Production and the War Economy, 1934-1945 explores the under-researched experiences of the British...  Read More >>

This book looks at the rail-connected quarries of Bardon Aggregates, a company that started from small beginnings...  Read More >>

Mark Kuhlberg challenges the orthodox interpretation of the relationship between the corporations which ran the...  Read More >>

Showcases how small machines and consumer goods that originated in Europe and North America became objects of everyday...  Read More >>

Slates from quarries in Wales once went to roof the world. By the late nineteenth century as many as a third of...  Read More >>

Slates from quarries in Wales once went to roof the world. By the late nineteenth century as many as a third of...  Read More >>

During the fourth century BC the number of Greeks who did not live as citizens in the city-states of southern mainland...  Read More >>

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According to the Marxist interpretation still dominant in Japanese studies, the last century and a half of the Tokugawa...  Read More >>

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>