Industrialisation & industrial history books

Offers an innovative and original socio-cultural study of the history of electricity during the late Victorian and...  Read More >>

Features seven essays ranging across the topics of region and its history to assess the role of innovations which...  Read More >>

The coastline of Victorian and Edwardian Britain provided beauty, entertainment and a venue for most people's holidays....  Read More >>

With the closure of the coalmines around East Lancashire went a comradeship that few other industries could ever...  Read More >>

Tells the story of Tata Steel from its early days to it maturity, its struggles, as well as its many triumphs, ending...  Read More >>

The Flats, a district near downtown Cleveland, was once the vibrant heart of Midwestern industry and is now in the...  Read More >>

The Flats, a district near downtown Cleveland, was once the vibrant heart of Midwestern industry and is now in the...  Read More >>

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A collection of anecdotes and stories which chart the lesser-known history of the hunt for oil in the Middle East....  Read More >>

Now in paperback, Fire and Steam tells the dramatic story of the people and events that shaped the world's first...  Read More >>

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She concludes that the goal uniting the various forms and applications of photographic production in that era was...  Read More >>

Isobel Armstrong's startlingly original book tells the stories that spring from the mass-production of glass in...  Read More >>

When the Communist-led National Miners Union competed against the more conservative United Mine Workers of America...  Read More >>

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This powerful history of broadcasting in the United States goes beyond traditional accounts to explore the field's...  Read More >>

This powerful history of broadcasting in the United States goes beyond traditional accounts to explore the field's...  Read More >>

At the periphery of the Chinese empire, a group of innovative entrepreneurs built companies that dominated the Chinese...  Read More >>

Savile Row has been home to some of the most exclusive tailors shops in the world for more than 200 years, creating...  Read More >>

A nostalgic look at Wexford's history through one of its principal industries.  Read More >>

Agricultural technology has moved on, inexorably, from broad-cast seed and the sound of the threshing flail, via...  Read More >>

Big Steel is the first comprehensive history of the company at the center of America's twentieth-century industrial...  Read More >>

Counter to the view that the Civil War and Reconstruction alone brought social and economic revolution to the South,...  Read More >>

From broad-cast seed and the sound of the threshing flail, right through to the modern world of giant tractors and...  Read More >>