Industrialisation & industrial history books

This three-volume account of the 1851 Great Exhibition, first published the following year, describes the planning...  Read More >>

This is the second, much expanded 1892 edition of James M. Swank's influential history of the rise of iron manufacturing...  Read More >>

This three-volume account of the 1851 Great Exhibition, first published the following year, describes the planning...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1981, represents a systematic attempt to describe and analyse the evolution of Soviet...  Read More >>

'No other group of workers in the history of the English working-class has received more sympathy and less scholarly...  Read More >>

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Tells the story of one of Australia's biggest business disasters, which involves government complicity, and is a...  Read More >>

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A striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe industrialised and Asia did not. Focusing on divergence...  Read More >>

Poole Pottery is a great British institution, and for more than 130 years has been in the very first rank of producers...  Read More >>

After the Revolutionary War, despite political independence, the United States still relied on other countries for...  Read More >>

Grounded in archival research and oral history, Militant Minority provides a valuable case study of one of the most...  Read More >>

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This pioneering comparative study investigates how agricultural workers in Puerto Rico, Hawai’i, and California...  Read More >>

The delicious true story of the early chocolate pioneers by the award-winning writer, and direct descendant of the...  Read More >>

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Drawing on his knowledge of the technical aspects of civil aviation, Alan P. Dobson's history of the international...  Read More >>

Drawing on primary historical material, The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation, provides a historical...  Read More >>

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This book provides the first comprehensive history of the world airline industry from the early 1960s to the present...  Read More >>

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A history of the Industrial Revolution and the steam engine, as well as an account of how inventors first came to...  Read More >>

The Industrial Revolution had a profound and lasting effect on socioeconomic and cultural conditions in Britain....  Read More >>

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