Industrialisation & industrial history books

This guidebook of historic iron-production sites is designed to give the reader a factual and illuminating look...  Read More >>

This is the first book to examine in a systematic way the entrepreneurial society of the Welsh Valleys. The book...  Read More >>

In the history of the American auto mechanic, Borg finds the origins of a persistent anxiety that even today accompanies...  Read More >>

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'The Story of Abaca' is a human story told through the experiences of farmers, traders, and entrepreneurs who cultivate,...  Read More >>

The Chinese economy has been the subject of substantial research in recent years in the United States and abroad...  Read More >>

This volume examines the dynamism of the São Paulo region and its coffee industry and evolution since the latter...  Read More >>

The era of American labor's greatest struggles, vividly reconstructed by one of labor history's greatest historians....  Read More >>

"A fascinating, comprehensive study of the American workforce, from the ""roaring twenties"" through the Great Depression."...  Read More >>

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

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It was not until the eighteenth century that books became widely available throughout the whole of England. Publishing...  Read More >>

This book surveys the field of industrialisation in Ghana and its effects through such other factors as migration....  Read More >>

Legal Publishing in Antebellum America presents a history of the law book publishing and distribution industry in...  Read More >>

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a profound change swept across Britain. The rapid advance of technology...  Read More >>

Following the real fortunes of seven-year-old Joey Burkinshaw and his family, Alan Gallop recreates the events surrounding...  Read More >>

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A selection of papers that introduces students to the history of the book in the West from late Antiquity to the...  Read More >>

The familiar industrialisation of northern England and less familiar de-industrialisation of the south are shown...  Read More >>

Transforming Labour offers one of the first critical assessments of women's paid labour in this era, a period when...  Read More >>

The telegraph and the telephone were the first electrical communications networks to become hallmarks of modernity....  Read More >>

Transforming Labour offers one of the first critical assessments of women's paid labour in this era, a period when...  Read More >>

Offers explanations as to why motor manufacturing followed the British motorcycle, bicycle and cotton industries...  Read More >>

South Carolina's first transportation revolution was the development of a network of canals and waterways. This...  Read More >>