Industrialisation & industrial history books

""Chocolate: The British Chocolate Industry"".  Read More >>

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Clanging: Belfast in its industrial pomp must have been noisy: shipyards manipulating sheets of metal, the constant...  Read More >>

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.  Read More >>

official history of NUPE  Read More >>

Clayton Wheat Williams, West Texas oilman, rancher, civic leader, veteran of the Great War left behind a treasure...  Read More >>

"""A superb history of labor on the East Coast waterfront that may be the best account we have, not only of the...  Read More >>

The Big Easy family saga of an eccentric father, a workaholic mother, and thebirth of the Ruth's Chris Steak House...  Read More >>

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The Hawaiian pineapple industry emerged in the late nineteenth century as part of an attempt to diversify the Hawaiian...  Read More >>

This book raises awareness of the wide range and varied character of the historic mills, buildings and canals which...  Read More >>

In Coal and Tobacco, Dr Beckett has attempted, by analysing the west Cumberland economy, and the Lowther's entrepreneurial...  Read More >>

The incidence of industrial conflict and the nature of workplace industrial relations have occupied a central place...  Read More >>

Written by the leading expert in the history of UK energy, this study provides new, in-depth analysis of the development...  Read More >>

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The first balanced account of the rise and fall of the Mexican business empire of nineteenth-century British entrepreneur...  Read More >>

This book is focused on the social and occupational origins of the founders of modem British industry: what kind...  Read More >>

David Hill relates the extraordinary people and staggering events of Australia's great gold - rush years. From the...  Read More >>

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

De La Rue, a company celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2013, and Portals, which will be 300 years old in 2012,...  Read More >>

Focusing on five Los Angeles environmental policy debates between 1920 and 1950, Sarah Elkind investigates how practices...  Read More >>

From Panama to Punjab, from Tasmania to Turin, Wolmar shows how cultures were enriched, and destroyed, by one of...  Read More >>

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A new, incisive history of the transcontinental railroads and how they transformed America in the decades after...  Read More >>

Florence Kelley (1859–1932) was a committed socialist who campaigned against child labour in the United States....  Read More >>