Industrialisation & industrial history books

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For 90 years, the Government Railway Workshops at Midland were the largest Industrial workshops in Western Australia,...  Read More >>

Americans commonly recognize television, e-mail, and instant messaging as agents of pervasive cultural change. But...  Read More >>

At the beginning of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of European immigrants came to northeastern Pennsylvania...  Read More >>

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First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

A Bicentennial History of D. Napier  Read More >>

For a long time, it looked like FedEx would never get off the ground. Roger Frock was with the company from the...  Read More >>

Introduces the women miners at a large underground coal mine in southern West Virginia, where women entered the...  Read More >>

Looks at the lives of shoemakers in Lynn, Massachusetts, during the period when their work was mechanized and moved...  Read More >>

Covers the emergence of the automobile manufacturing, mining and petroleum, and textile industries and their separate...  Read More >>

Packed with photographs and line illustrations, this book explains the history and machinery of local windmills...  Read More >>

Presents the story of the 'Canyon Cats' who made their living running the Grand Canyon and other equally dangerous...  Read More >>

This text provides an overview of the Gambian groundnut trade, assessing the various political, economic, social...  Read More >>

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"This is the definitive book on the economic development of the anthracite coal industry from the onset of the American...  Read More >>

How Revolutionary-era France, rejecting the example of laissez-faire, market-oriented Britain, pursued its own path...  Read More >>

In this biography, author and scholar Harold C. Livesay examines the life and legacy of Andrew Carnegie, one of...  Read More >>

A brief illustrated history of the salt industry in Britain.  Read More >>

Provides the documentation of the 20th-century history of the Puerto Rican labor movement with a scholarly treatment...  Read More >>

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Shair was born in a small town in what was then Transjordan and dragged himself through school, moved to college...  Read More >>

Bolton's industrial heritage  Read More >>

At the beginning of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of European immigrants came to northeastern Pennsylvania...  Read More >>

Tells the story of meatpacking's enormous effects on the economics, culture, and environment of the Midwest. This...  Read More >>