Industrialisation & industrial history books

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Urban Emotions and the Making of the City: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Urban Emotions and the Making of the City: Interdisciplinary...

Author: Katie Barclay (University of Adelaide, Australia) ,  Jade Riddle (Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Australia)
ISBN: 9780367754679
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This book explores the role of emotions in the making and remaking of the city, from the medieval to the modern...  Read More >>

Fueling Mexico: Energy and Environment, 1850–1950

Fueling Mexico: Energy and Environment, 1850–1950

Author: Germán Vergara (Georgia Institute of Technology)
ISBN: 9781108932677
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Germán Vergara explains how, when, and why fossil fuels became the basis of Mexican society, comparing Mexico's...  Read More >>

Space, Movement, and Visibility in Pompeian Houses

Space, Movement, and Visibility in Pompeian Houses

Author: Michael Anderson (San Francisco State University, USA.)
ISBN: 9781472485953
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This volume examines the role of movement, visibility, and experience within Pompeian houses through the application...  Read More >>

Social City: Urban Experience and Belonging in Surat

Social City: Urban Experience and Belonging in Surat...

Author: Sadan Jha (Centre for Social Studies, Surat, India)
ISBN: 9781032158310
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book examines urban experience from the vantage point of the global South. Drawing upon narratives coming from...  Read More >>

Urban Popular Culture and Entertainment: Experiences from Northern, East-Central, and Southern Europe, 1870s–1930s

Urban Popular Culture and Entertainment: Experiences...

Author: Antje Dietze (University of Leipzig, Germany) ,  Alexander Vari (Marywood University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032161839
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book is part of an ongoing transnational turn in cultural history.  Read More >>

Railways

Railways

Author: Christian Wolmar
ISBN: 9781788549851
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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UNITE History Volume 3 (1945-1960): The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU): Post War Britain, the Welfare State and the Cold War

UNITE History Volume 3 (1945-1960): The Transport and...

Author: Marjorie Mayo
ISBN: 9781802077100
Format: Paperback
$18.09

Sold as a multi-volume set – the individual volumes are also available for purchase. This is the third volume...  Read More >>

UNITE History Volume 4 (1960-1974): The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU): 'The Great Tradition of Independent Working Class Power'

UNITE History Volume 4 (1960-1974): The Transport and...

Author: John Foster
ISBN: 9781802077032
Format: Paperback
$18.09

By 1974 a mobilised trade union movement had forced a Conservative government from office, compelled the abandonment...  Read More >>

Fighting Deindustrialisation: Scottish Women’s Factory Occupations, 1981-1982

Fighting Deindustrialisation: Scottish Women’s Factory...

Author: Andy Clark
ISBN: 9781802077124
Format: Paperback
$64.66

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Maritime Men of the Asia-Pacific: True-Blue Internationals Navigating Labour Rights 1906-2006

Maritime Men of the Asia-Pacific: True-Blue Internationals...

Author: Diane Kirkby ,  Lee-Ann Monk
ISBN: 9781802077513
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Winner of the Australia and New Zealand Law and History Society (ANZLHS) Prize for 2023 Maritime workers occupy...  Read More >>

Fighting Deindustrialisation: Scottish Women’s Factory Occupations, 1981-1982

Fighting Deindustrialisation: Scottish Women’s Factory...

Author: Andy Clark
ISBN: 9781802077117
Format: Hardback
$245.81

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Shantyboats and Roustabouts: The River Poor of St. Louis, 1875–1930

Shantyboats and Roustabouts: The River Poor of St. Louis,...

Author: Gregg Andrews
ISBN: 9780807178478
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Uses the waterfront squatter settlements and Black entertainment district near the levee in St. Louis as a window...  Read More >>

Agrarian Revolt in the Sierra of Chihuahua, 1959-1965

Agrarian Revolt in the Sierra of Chihuahua, 1959-1965...

Author: Elizabeth Henson
ISBN: 9780816550302
Format: Paperback
$92.40

The Popular Guerrilla Group (GPG) took shape from sporadic armed conflicts. Early victories encouraged the GPG to...  Read More >>

Modernising Post-war France: Architecture and Urbanism during Les Trente Glorieuses

Modernising Post-war France: Architecture and Urbanism...

Author: Nicholas Bullock
ISBN: 9780367556518
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This book is about the role played by architects, engineers and planners in transforming France during the three...  Read More >>

Modernising Post-war France: Architecture and Urbanism during Les Trente Glorieuses

Modernising Post-war France: Architecture and Urbanism...

Author: Nicholas Bullock
ISBN: 9780367556501
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book is about the role played by architects, engineers and planners in transforming France during the three...  Read More >>

Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London

Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian...

Author: Joshua Stuart-Bennett (Research Associate at University of Leicester, UK)
ISBN: 9780367752750
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Motherhood, Respectability & Baby-Farming in Victorian & Edwardian London explores the largely obscured marketplace...  Read More >>

Rural China Takes Off: Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform

Rural China Takes Off: Institutional Foundations of...

Author: Jean C. Oi ,  "Agency ""Б2Б Перевод"""
ISBN: 9798887190754
Format: Hardback
$54.99

In this analysis of one of the economic breakthroughs in the Deng era, Jean C.Oi shows how and why Chinese rural-based...  Read More >>

The Insider: How the Kiplinger Newsletter Bridged Washington and Wall Street

The Insider: How the Kiplinger Newsletter Bridged Washington...

Author: Rob Wells
ISBN: 9781625347039
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Part journalism history, part biography, and part democratic chronicle, The Insider offers a deeply researched portrayal...  Read More >>

The Insider: How the Kiplinger Newsletter Bridged Washington and Wall Street

The Insider: How the Kiplinger Newsletter Bridged Washington...

Author: Rob Wells
ISBN: 9781625347046
Format: Hardback
$237.60

Part journalism history, part biography, and part democratic chronicle, The Insider offers a deeply researched portrayal...  Read More >>

I Will Live for Both of Us: A History of Colonialism, Uranium Mining, and Inuit Resistance

I Will Live for Both of Us: A History of Colonialism,...

Author: Joan Scottie ,  Warren Bernauer
ISBN: 9780887552656
Format: Paperback
$64.56

Born at a traditional Inuit camp in what is now Nunavut, Joan Scottie has spent decades protecting the Inuit hunting...  Read More >>

I Will Live for Both of Us: A History of Colonialism, Uranium Mining, and Inuit Resistance

I Will Live for Both of Us: A History of Colonialism,...

Author: Joan Scottie ,  Warren Bernauer
ISBN: 9780887552717
Format: Hardback
$181.13

Offers a reflection on recent political and environmental history and a call for a future in which Inuit traditional...  Read More >>

Will Britain Make it?: The Rise, Fall and Future of British Industry

Will Britain Make it?: The Rise, Fall and Future of...

Author: Richard Morris
ISBN: 9780750999922
Format: Hardback
$49.99

If you ever wondered how and why British industry and its empire collapsed, then this is the book to read!  Read More >>

Learning behind Bars: How IRA Prisoners Shaped the Peace Process in Ireland

Learning behind Bars: How IRA Prisoners Shaped the Peace...

Author: Dieter Reinisch
ISBN: 9781487545826
Format: Hardback
$127.59

This book sheds light on Irish republican prisoners during the Northern Irish Troubles and the ways in which they...  Read More >>

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