Industrialisation & industrial history books

2411 books were found.

Beyond Piggly Wiggly: Inventing the American Self-Service Store

Beyond Piggly Wiggly: Inventing the American Self-Service...

Author: Lisa C. Tolbert
ISBN: 9780820364421
Format: Hardback
$303.47

Patented in 1917, Piggly Wiggly was the most influential self-service store of the early twentieth century. This...  Read More >>

America's Urban History

America's Urban History

Author: Lisa Krissoff Boehm ,  Steven H. Corey (Columbia College, Chicago, USA)
ISBN: 9781032139821
Format: Hardback
$284.00

In this second edition, America’s Urban History now includes contemporary analysis of race, immigration, and cities...  Read More >>

Craftworkers in Nineteenth Century Scotland: Making and Adapting in an Industrial Age

Craftworkers in Nineteenth Century Scotland: Making...

Author: Stana Nenadic
ISBN: 9781474493086
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Explores how artisans and hand skills evolved against a background of technical and commercial modernisation in...  Read More >>

Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860

Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes...

Author: Franco Piperno ,  Simone Caputo
ISBN: 9780367748425
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 presents new perspectives on the role music...  Read More >>

The Battle Against the Luddites: Unrest in the Industrial Revolution During the Napoleonic Wars

The Battle Against the Luddites: Unrest in the Industrial...

Author: Paul L Dawson
ISBN: 9781399052405
Format: Hardback
$75.00

Uncovers the full story of the social unrest that was seen throughout Britain at the times of the Napoleonic Wars....  Read More >>

Losing the Thread: Cotton, Liverpool and the American Civil War

Losing the Thread: Cotton, Liverpool and the American...

Author: Powell
ISBN: 9781837644346
Format: Paperback
$77.60

This is the first full-length study of the effect of the American Civil War on Britain’s raw cotton trade and on...  Read More >>

A History of the Scottish Miners: From the Earliest Times

A History of the Scottish Miners: From the Earliest...

Author: Robert Page Arnot
ISBN: 9781032514581
Format: Hardback
$284.00

First published in 1955, A History of the Scottish Miners recounts the peculiar circumstances of the seventeenth...  Read More >>

The Miners: One Union, One Industry: A History of the National Union of Mineworkers 1939-46

The Miners: One Union, One Industry: A History of the...

Author: R. Page Arnot
ISBN: 9781032514550
Format: Hardback
$194.00

First published in 1979, The Miners: A History of the National Union of Mineworkers 1939-46 describes the events...  Read More >>

Oil for Britain: The United Kingdom and the Remaking of the International Oil Industry, 1957-1988

Oil for Britain: The United Kingdom and the Remaking...

Author: Jonathan Kuiken (Wilkes University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032291147
Format: Hardback
$284.00

While famous for its liberal policy towards oil and gas production, both before and after the discovery of North...  Read More >>

The Whisky Distilleries of the United Kingdom

The Whisky Distilleries of the United Kingdom

Author: Alfred Barnard
ISBN: 9781839830167
Format: Hardback
$103.50

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Effects of German Industrialization on Turkish-German Military-Strategic Relations (1815-1929)

Effects of German Industrialization on Turkish-German...

Author: Atakan Büyükdağ
ISBN: 9783631891322
Format: Paperback
$113.85

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Railway Nation: Tales of Canadian Pacific, the Worlds Greatest Travel System

Railway Nation: Tales of Canadian Pacific, the Worlds...

Author: David Laurence Jones
ISBN: 9781772033496
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Since its founding in 1881, Canadian Pacific has made an indelible mark on the lives of Canadians. Most commonly...  Read More >>

Cold War Cities: Politics, Culture and Atomic Urbanism, 1945–1965

Cold War Cities: Politics, Culture and Atomic Urbanism,...

Author: Richard Brook (Manchester School of Architecture, UK) ,  Martin Dodge (University of Manchester, UK)
ISBN: 9780367619909
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book examines the impact of the Cold War in a global context and focuses on city-scale reactions to the atomic...  Read More >>

Micro-geographies of the Western City, c.1750–1900

Micro-geographies of the Western City, c.1750–1900

Author: Alida Clemente ,  Dag Lindström (Uppsala University, Sweden)
ISBN: 9780367702311
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book examines the overlapping spaces in modern western cities to explore the small-scale processes that have...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Rural Life

The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Rural Life

Author: Miriam Müller (University of Birmingham, UK)
ISBN: 9781032048505
Format: Paperback
$92.99

The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Rural Life brings together the latest research on peasantry in medieval Europe....  Read More >>

Tobacco on the Periphery: A Case Study in Cuban Labour History 1860-1958

Tobacco on the Periphery: A Case Study in Cuban Labour...

Author: Jean Stubbs ,  Victor Bulmer-Thomas
ISBN: 9781914278051
Format: Paperback
$64.56

This new edition expands on the 1985 original, adding other source material, with a new Preface and a Foreword by...  Read More >>

The Weight of Gold

The Weight of Gold

Author: Mica Jorgenson
ISBN: 9781647791049
Format: Hardback
$79.09

Tells the story of the rise of Canadian gold mining and its environmental consequences in the Abitibi region of...  Read More >>

Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia

Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and...

Author: Gregg Mitman
ISBN: 9781620977965
Format: Paperback
$34.99

An ambitious and shocking exposeae s of America's hien empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation,...  Read More >>

XIT: A Story of Land, Cattle, and Capital in Texas and Montana

XIT: A Story of Land, Cattle, and Capital in Texas and...

Author: Michael M. Miller
ISBN: 9780806192017
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Describing the Texas capitol project in its full scope and gritty detail, XIT cuts through the popular portrayal...  Read More >>

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