Industrialisation & industrial history books

2411 books were found.

The Miners and Coal Levels of Gwent: Britain in Old Photographs

The Miners and Coal Levels of Gwent: Britain in Old...

Author: Colin Spencer
ISBN: 9780752452517
Format: Paperback
$33.61

A history of the miners and coal levels of Gwent  Read More >>

Windmills of Yorkshire

Windmills of Yorkshire

Author: Roy Gregory ,  Laurence Turner
ISBN: 9781840334753
Format: Paperback
$36.10

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The Medway Valley: A Kent Landscape Transformed

The Medway Valley: A Kent Landscape Transformed

Author: Andrew Hann
ISBN: 9781860776007
Format: Paperback
$38.79

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Memories of the Lancashire Aircraft Industry

Memories of the Lancashire Aircraft Industry

Author: Ron Freethy
ISBN: 9781846741661
Format: Paperback
$23.26

A nostalgic look back at the county's aircraft industry from balloon flight through to the A.R. Roe company's Lancaster...  Read More >>

Renaissance Secrets: Recipes & Formulas

Renaissance Secrets: Recipes & Formulas

Author: Jo Wheeler ,  Katy Templl
ISBN: 9781851775774
Format: Hardback
$79.07

From recipes for plague amulets to aphrodisiacs and formulas for things from lip balm to paint pigments, this book...  Read More >>

The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism

The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern...

Author: Harriet Ritvo
ISBN: 9780226720821
Format: Hardback
$46.95

Purchased by the city of Manchester in the 1870s, Thirlmere was dammed and converted into a reservoir. This book...  Read More >>

City of Industry: Genealogies of Power in Southern California

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

Author: Victor Valle
ISBN: 9780813545738
Format: Hardback
$65.87

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

We Were Merchants: The Sternberg Family and the Story of Goudchaux's and Maison Blanche Department Stores

We Were Merchants: The Sternberg Family and the Story...

Author: Hans J. Sternberg ,  James E Shelledy
ISBN: 9780807134498
Format: Hardback
$79.07

The words “Goudchaux's/Maison Blanche” conjure up a wealth of fond memories for local shoppers, but not many know...  Read More >>

The Hancocks of Marlborough: Rubber, Art and the Industrial Revolution - A Family of Inventive Genius

The Hancocks of Marlborough: Rubber, Art and the Industrial...

Author: John Loadman ,  Francis James
ISBN: 9780199573554
Format: Hardback
$73.95

This book tells the largely unknown history of the Hancock family of Marlborough. It shows how members of one unique...  Read More >>

Sutton Bridge - An Industrial History

Sutton Bridge - An Industrial History

Author: Neil R. Wright ,  Beryl Jackson
ISBN: 9780903582377
Format: Paperback
$25.75

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Flying Scotsman

Flying Scotsman

Author: Brian Sharpe
ISBN: 9781845630904
Format: Hardback
$105.57

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The Potteries

The Potteries

Author: David Sekers
ISBN: 9780747807599
Format: Paperback
$34.19

'The Potteries' is the name given to the industrial area in the English Midlands that was home to hundreds of pottery-making...  Read More >>

Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba

Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba

Author: Tom Gjelten
ISBN: 9780143116325
Format: Paperback
$39.99

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The Big Fella

The Big Fella

Author: Robert Macklin ,  Peter Thompson
ISBN: 9781741667103
Format: Hardback
$105.47

The compelling story of how BHP and its partner Billiton rose from the humblest beginnings in the Australian Outback...  Read More >>

Financing Innovation in the United States, 1870 to Present

Financing Innovation in the United States, 1870 to Present...

Author: Naomi R Lamoreaux ,  Kenneth L Sokoloff
ISBN: 9780262513326
Format: Paperback
$68.64

Leading economists and economic historians offer case studies and theoretical perspectives that fill a longstanding...  Read More >>

Mining in a Medieval Landscape: The Royal Silver Mines of the Tamar Valley

Mining in a Medieval Landscape: The Royal Silver Mines...

Author: Prof. Steve Rippon ,  Dr. Peter Claughton
ISBN: 9780859898287
Format: Paperback
$58.22

This book explores an industry that was of profound importance both in terms of the local economy and the history...  Read More >>

St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project: An Oral History of the Greatest Construction Show on Earth

St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project: An Oral History...

Author: Claire Parham
ISBN: 9780815609131
Format: Hardback
$92.27

Reveals the human side of the St Lawrence Seaway and Power Project in the words of its engineers, laborers, and...  Read More >>

Nation, State and the Industrial Revolution: The Visible Hand

Nation, State and the Industrial Revolution: The Visible...

Author: Lars Magnusson
ISBN: 9780415461771
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This book puts the industrial revolution in a political and institutional context of state-making and the creation...  Read More >>

Mining in a Medieval Landscape: The Royal Silver Mines of the Tamar Valley

Mining in a Medieval Landscape: The Royal Silver Mines...

Author: Prof. Steve Rippon ,  Dr. Peter Claughton
ISBN: 9780859898270
Format: Hardback
$194.06

This book explores an industry that was of profound importance both in terms of the local economy and the history...  Read More >>

The Complete Book of North American Railroading

The Complete Book of North American Railroading

Author: Kevin EuDaly ,  Mike Schafer
ISBN: 9780760328484
Format: Hardback
$105.60

Offers a tour of the railways' inroads into the economy, society, and culture on America. With over 400 historic...  Read More >>

Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution

Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial...

Author: Robert C. Allen
ISBN: 9780691144313
Format: Paperback
$87.99

To say that history's greatest economic experiment - Soviet communism - was also its greatest economic failure is...  Read More >>

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