Industrialisation & industrial history books

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North and South

North and South

Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
ISBN: 9780007902255
Format: Paperback
$11.64

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

Leadership and Democracy: History of The National Union of Public Employees

Leadership and Democracy: History of The National Union...

Author: Stephen Williams ,  R.H. Fryer
ISBN: 9781907103377
Format: Paperback
$77.63

official history of NUPE  Read More >>

Unprecedented Power: Jesse Jones, Capitalism and the Common Good

Unprecedented Power: Jesse Jones, Capitalism and the...

Author: Steven Fenberg
ISBN: 9781603444347
Format: Hardback
$71.50

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

Harsh Country, Hard Times: Clayton Wheat Williams and the Transformation of the Trans-Pecos

Harsh Country, Hard Times: Clayton Wheat Williams and...

Author: Janet Williams Pollard ,  Louis Gwin
ISBN: 9781603442831
Format: Hardback
$71.50

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

Ancoats: The cradle of industrialisation

Ancoats: The cradle of industrialisation

Author: Mike Rose ,  Keith Falconer
ISBN: 9781848020276
Format: Paperback
$52.80

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

The Official History of North Sea Oil and Gas: Vol. II: Moderating the State’s Role

The Official History of North Sea Oil and Gas: Vol....

Author: Alex Kemp (University of Aberdeen, UK)
ISBN: 9780415570947
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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

British Lions and Mexican Eagles: Business, Politics, and Empire in the Career of Weetman Pearson in Mexico, 1889–1919

British Lions and Mexican Eagles: Business, Politics,...

Author: Paul Garner
ISBN: 9780804774451
Format: Hardback
$104.95

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

The Gold Rush

The Gold Rush

Author: David Hill
ISBN: 9781864711301
Format: Paperback
$26.99

The fever that forever changed Australia The fever that forever changed Australia. David Hill relates the extraordinary...  Read More >>

The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak: A New Orleans Family Memoir

The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak: A New Orleans...

Author: Randy Fertel
ISBN: 9781617030826
Format: Hardback
$73.92

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

Dangerous Hoops: A Forensic Marketing Action Adventure

Dangerous Hoops: A Forensic Marketing Action Adventure...

Author: D. Larry Crumbley ,  Fred H. Campbell
ISBN: 9780807139110
Format: Paperback
$71.50

Part crime novel, part textbook, Dangerous Hoops combines the principles of marketing and forensic accounting into...  Read More >>

The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1200-1850

The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles,...

Author: Giorgio Riello (Assistant Professor in Global History and Culture at the University of Warwick) ,  Prasannan Parthasarathi (Associate Professor of History at Boston College)
ISBN: 9780199696161
Format: Paperback
$145.20

This collection of essays examines the history of cotton textiles at a global level over the period 1200-1850. It...  Read More >>

Blood, Iron & Gold

Blood, Iron & Gold

Author: Christian Wolmar
ISBN: 9780753152508
Format: Paperback
$79.17

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How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy: Business, Power, and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles

How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy: Business, Power,...

Author: Sarah S. Elkind
ISBN: 9780807834893
Format: Hardback
$118.80

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

City of Industry: Genealogies of Power in Southern California

City of Industry: Genealogies of Power in Southern California...

Author: Victor Valle
ISBN: 9780813551920
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Presents a kaleidoscopic view of the corruption that resulted when local land owners, media barons, and railroads...  Read More >>

Breaking the Sheep's Back

Breaking the Sheep's Back

Author: Charles Massy
ISBN: 9780702238857
Format: Paperback
$39.95

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Poole Pottery

Poole Pottery

Author: Will Farmer (Composer, UK)
ISBN: 9780747808350
Format: Paperback
$36.99

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

The Life and Times of Francis Cabot Lowell, 1775-1817

The Life and Times of Francis Cabot Lowell, 1775-1817...

Author: Chaim M. Rosenberg
ISBN: 9780739146842
Format: Paperback
$64.95

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Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement Before the UFW: Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, California

Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement Before...

Author: Dionicio Nodín Valdés
ISBN: 9780292743960
Format: Paperback
$52.95

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

Militant Minority: British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left, 1948-1972

Militant Minority: British Columbia Workers and the...

Author: Benjamin Isitt
ISBN: 9781442641945
Format: Hardback
$160.00

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

Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement before the UFW: Puerto Rico, Hawai’i, California

Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement before...

Author: Dionicio Nodín Valdés
ISBN: 9780292726390
Format: Hardback
$145.20

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

The British Industrial Revolution

The British Industrial Revolution

Author: Alan Allport ,  Alan Allport
ISBN: 9781604134988
Format: Hardback
$71.50

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Chocolate Wars: From Cadbury to Kraft: 200 Years of Sweet Success and Bitter Rivalry

Chocolate Wars: From Cadbury to Kraft: 200 Years of...

Author: Deborah Cadbury
ISBN: 9780007325573
Format: Paperback
$33.61

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