Industrialisation & industrial history books

In the United States, cheap products made by cheap labour are in especially high demand, purchased by men and women...  Read More >>

In recent years, scholars from a variety of disciplines have addressed many perplexing questions about the Industrial...  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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The story of Hanford and the Tri-Cities of Richland, Pasco, and Kennewick illuminates the history of the modern...  Read More >>

Making the Scene is a history of 1960s Yorkville, Toronto's countercultural mecca.  Read More >>

In July 1888, fourteen hundred women and girls employed by the matchmakers Bryant and May walked out of their East...  Read More >>

Highly illustrated history of Scottish engines from the 1880s-1940s, plus the story of National Museum Scotland's...  Read More >>

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A brilliant, nostalgic and provocative look at the golden age of British aircraft, from the post-war jet age to...  Read More >>

One community's response to globalization and deindustrialization  Read More >>

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Making the Scene is a history of 1960s Yorkville, Toronto's countercultural mecca.  Read More >>

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Reveals the little-known history of the herring  Read More >>

This is the story of 250 years on the canals and of the people who made and used them  Read More >>

Orality and Literacy investigates the interactions of the oral and the literate through close studies of particular...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-century Cuba led the world in sugar manufacture and technological innovation was central to this. Through...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the western Balkans in the period 1820-1912, in particular on the peoples and social groups...  Read More >>

A study of the major role played by royal monuments in the public space of expanding cities across eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

How the Victorians struggled to overcome diseases such as cholera, typhoid and scarlet fever in their cities.  Read More >>

A colourful tale of trade and travel in the little-reported post-colonial era in West Africa  Read More >>

Employing the first analysis of the entire population of any British town, this book examines how overseas migrants...  Read More >>

William Edmundson examines the spectacular life story of 'Colonel' John Thomas North, also known as 'The Nitrate...  Read More >>

Guide to East Cornwall mines of the UNESCO-designated Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site....  Read More >>