Industrialisation & industrial history books

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Corn Milling

Corn Milling
Author: Martin Watts ISBN: 9780747806714 Format: Paperback	$34.19
Corn milling - the reduction of hard cereal grains to form a usable foodstuff - is one of the oldest crafts. This... Read More >>

Memories of the Lancashire Cotton Mills

Memories of the Lancashire Cotton Mills
Author: Ron Freethy ISBN: 9781846741043 Format: Paperback	$57.95
A nostalgic look back at the county's cotton industry. Includes the workers' recollections and anecdotes, the events,... Read More >>

Carriers and Coachmasters: Trade and Travel Before the Turnpikes

Carriers and Coachmasters: Trade and Travel Before the...
Author: Dorian Gerhold ISBN: 9781860773273 Format: Hardback	$51.72
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On Chariots with Horses of Fire and Iron: The Excursionists and the Narrow Gauge Railroad from Jaffa to Jerusalem

On Chariots with Horses of Fire and Iron: The Excursionists...
Author: Anthony S. Travis ISBN: 9789659114702 Format: Hardback	$165.00
Deals with the arrival of modernity in the Holy Land in the form of the 86 km Jaffa-Jerusalem Railway. This title... Read More >>

Industrial Revolution: People and Perspectives

Industrial Revolution: People and Perspectives
Author: Jennifer Lee Goloboy ISBN: 9781598840650 Format: Hardback	$150.00
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Six Tycoons: Lives of John Astor, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Henry Ford & J.D. Rockefeller

Six Tycoons: Lives of John Astor, Vanderbilt, Carnegie,...
Author: Wyn Derbyshire ISBN: 9781904905844 Format: Hardback	$97.55
John Jacob Astor. Cornelius Vanderbilt. Andrew Carnegie. John D. Rockefeller. Henry Ford. Joseph P. Kennedy. Even... Read More >>

Bodies of Work: Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh

Bodies of Work: Civic Display and Labor in Industrial...
Author: Edward Slavishak ISBN: 9780822342250 Format: Paperback	$68.51
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Bodies of Work: Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh

Bodies of Work: Civic Display and Labor in Industrial...
Author: Edward Slavishak ISBN: 9780822342069 Format: Hardback	$250.67
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Liberalization and Development: Collected Essays

Liberalization and Development: Collected Essays
Author: Deepak Nayyar (Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University) ISBN: 9780195686760 Format: Hardback	$131.87
This volume is a collection of published and unpublished essays authored by the eminent scholar Deepak Nayyar. The... Read More >>

The Fishery of Arklow, 1800-1950

The Fishery of Arklow, 1800-1950
Author: Jim Rees ISBN: 9781846821189 Format: Paperback	$25.95
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The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1830

The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the...
Author: Jeff Horn (Professor of History, Manhattan College) , Jed Z. Buchwald (Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History, California Institute of Technology) ISBN: 9780262582834 Format: Paperback	$66.00
How Revolutionary-era France, rejecting the example of laissez-faire, market-oriented Britain, pursued its own path... Read More >>

Fred Dibnah's Chimney Drops

Fred Dibnah's Chimney Drops
Author: Alan McEwen ISBN: 9780953272518 Format: Hardback	$72.32
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The Weir Group: The History of a Scottish Engineering Legend

The Weir Group: The History of a Scottish Engineering...
Author: William Viscount Weir ISBN: 9781861978868 Format: Hardback	$95.04
In 1871, two brothers, George and James Weir, founded the engineering firm of G & J Weir, one of a booming range... Read More >>

Lighthouses: The Race to Illuminate the World

Lighthouses: The Race to Illuminate the World
Author: Toby Chance , Peter Williams ISBN: 9781847731746 Format: Hardback	$65.87
Places James Chance and the Chance Brothers firm against the backdrop of a time in which lighthouse manufacture... Read More >>

Memories of the Nottinghamshire Coalfields

Memories of the Nottinghamshire Coalfields
Author: Mr David Bell ISBN: 9781846741012 Format: Paperback	$57.95
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Canon - A Celebration

Canon - A Celebration
Author: Brian Long ISBN: 9781847970213 Format: Hardback	$171.60
Chronicles the birth of the Canon, the famous Japanese brand, from its early days in the 1930s as the Kwanon to... Read More >>

Metal Fatigue: American Bosch and the Demise of Metalworking in the Connecticut River Valley

Metal Fatigue: American Bosch and the Demise of Metalworking...
Author: Robert Forrant , Charles Levenstein ISBN: 9780895033260 Format: Paperback	$147.00
Offers a historical account of the profound economic collapse of the Connecticut River Valley region, focusing on... Read More >>

Ireland's IFSC

Ireland's IFSC
Author: Fiona Reddan ISBN: 9781856356039 Format: Hardback	$118.67
The International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) in Dublin came into being in 1987. An essential cog in the wheel... Read More >>

Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie
Author: David Nasaw ISBN: 9780143112440 Format: Paperback	$50.00
Born of modest origins in Scotland in 1835, Andrew Carnegie is best known as the founder of Carnegie Steel. This... Read More >>

Ninety Years Crossing Lake Michigan: The History of the Ann Arbor Car Ferries

Ninety Years Crossing Lake Michigan: The History of...
Author: Grant Brown ISBN: 9780472070497 Format: Hardback	$184.80
In 1892, the Ann Arbor Car Ferries shook the transportation world by doing what was then deemed impossible - carrying... Read More >>

Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America

Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
Author: Eric Jay Dolin ISBN: 9780393331578 Format: Paperback	$31.95
This absorbing history demonstrates that few things capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep... Read More >>

Ninety Years Crossing Lake Michigan: The History of the Ann Arbor Car Ferries

Ninety Years Crossing Lake Michigan: The History of...
Author: Grant Brown ISBN: 9780472050499 Format: Paperback	$65.87
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The Village Shop

The Village Shop
Author: Lin Bensley ISBN: 9780747806752 Format: Paperback	$34.19
Once the social and commercial core of the rural community, the village shop has become as much the victim of the... Read More >>

The British Car Industry: Our Part in Its Downfall

The British Car Industry: Our Part in Its Downfall
Author: James Ruppert ISBN: 9780955952906 Format: Paperback	$33.61
James Ruppert explains why you can't buy a British built hatchback car for you and your family from a British owned... Read More >>

Giant Under the Hill: A History of the Spindletop Oil Discovery at Beaumont, Texas, in 1901

Giant Under the Hill: A History of the Spindletop Oil...
Author: Jo Stiles , Judith Walker Linsley ISBN: 9780876112366 Format: Paperback	$60.59
How did a profligate who killed a deputy sheriff before reforming, a mining engineer who went AWOL from the Austrian... Read More >>

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