Industrialisation & industrial history books

Examines and explains the waves of urbanization across Europe from the fall of the Roman empire to the dawn of the...  Read More >>

Describes the history of Japanese social adaptation to railway development. This book details the often overlooked...  Read More >>

Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution occur in eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

A documentation of 400 years of improvements in public health, this work looks at the challenges faced by engineers...  Read More >>

Introduces readers to a remarkable range of transportation firsts and other related developments that occurred within...  Read More >>

This descriptive account tells the history of two Lea Valley armories that were responsible for supplying weapons...  Read More >>

This book compares the recent history of Allentown, Pennsylvania, with that of Youngstown, Ohio. Sean Safford offers...  Read More >>

This book uses a case study to explore the contribution which scientific knowledge made to the growth trajectory...  Read More >>

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Explores the subject of lenses, spectacles, aventurine glass, and windows found in China from the sixteenth century....  Read More >>

Combining political, cultural, and social history, Coolies and Cane is a compelling study of race, Reconstruction,...  Read More >>

Contesting claims that postwar American liberalism retreated from fights against unemployment and economic inequality,...  Read More >>

This book collects seventeen previously published essays by John Armstrong concerning the British coastal trade....  Read More >>

This study provides a detailed study of the fishing nation of Taiwan at a regional and local level in order to address...  Read More >>

From the lumberyards and meatpacking factories of the Southwest Side to the industrial suburbs that arose near Lake...  Read More >>

This collection of fascinating historical case studies reveals the remarkable inner workings of the modern food...  Read More >>

In the antebellum period, the wealth of southern whites came largely from agriculture that relied on the forced...  Read More >>

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Examines the economic culture of the South by pairing two categories that account for the ways many southerners...  Read More >>

A fully contextualized, critical biography of William Hesketh Lever, 1st Lord Leverhulme (1851-1925), the founder...  Read More >>

Charting the evolution of the seaports of Atlantic Spain and Portugal over four centuries, this book examines the...  Read More >>

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Chronicling the birth of the biotechnology industry, Biotech shows how a cultural and political revolution in the...  Read More >>

This book explores the rise of manufacturing through the beliefs and practices of key industrialists and their families,...  Read More >>