Industrialisation & industrial history books

Traces the impact of cotton from the southern US on most of the important facets of life in antebellum America,...  Read More >>

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Bringing together renowned scholars in the field with younger researchers, this interdisciplinary study of the history...  Read More >>

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""[A]n illuminating narrative that shows, among much else, what happened when Yankee ingenuity met the Industrial...  Read More >>

Down in the fiery belly of the luxury liners of the Titanic era, a world away from the first-class dining rooms...  Read More >>

Steven Fenberg tells the story of Jesse Holman Jones, the Houston businessman who went to Washington as an appointed...  Read More >>

This well-known Italian brand will remain famous for having introduced many innovations in the world of modelling,...  Read More >>

Cityscapes in History: Creating the Urban Experience explores the ways in which scholars from a variety of disciplines...  Read More >>

In recent years he has become more involved in work on the history of Bristol and south-west England, working with...  Read More >>

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The Industrial Revolution was a period of exceptional change in Britain, not only in terms of technology but also...  Read More >>

In a bold reappraisal, Katherine Epstein uncovers the origins of the “military–industrial complex” not in the Cold...  Read More >>

The rubber industry was an industry born in bankruptcy and built through bankruptcies. Many of the great rubber...  Read More >>

In recent decades, the decline of traditional manufacturing – deindustrialization - has been one of the most significant...  Read More >>

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This book explores the nature of power and labor in the early American Pacific from the perspective of sailors,...  Read More >>

In presenting 25 industrial sites of national significance in the context of changing techno-economic paradigms,...  Read More >>

Europe's critical infrastructure is a key concern to policymakers, NGOs, companies, and citizens today. This book...  Read More >>

Europe's critical infrastructure is a key concern to policymakers, NGOs, companies, and citizens today. This book...  Read More >>

During the nineteenth century the American economy was able to expand rapidly due to the availability of cheap and...  Read More >>

This book explains the causes and consequences of the intersection of two transformative global forces - trade and...  Read More >>

After World War II, the AFL-CIO pursued an ambitious agenda of containing global communism and helping to throw...  Read More >>