Industrialisation & industrial history books

Includes vivid, warts - and portraits of the legends of the golden age of the automobile, from Crazy Henry Ford...  Read More >>

NiederAsterreich beherbergt eine der Altesten Industrielandschaften Europas und besitzt ein reiches - teilweise...  Read More >>

In excerpts from a series of interviews, seven former Forest Service chiefs look back at the issues they faced throughout...  Read More >>

In excerpts from a series of interviews, seven former Forest Service chiefs look back at the issues they faced throughout...  Read More >>

For ninety-nine years, cars were made at Longbridge. But through bad management, interfering Governments, state...  Read More >>

Tells a story of Dublin Dr Pepper Bottling Co, a case study of the Dr Pepper bottling plant that has used pure cane...  Read More >>

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Britain's supremacy in the nineteenth century depended in large part on its vast deposits of coal. This coal not...  Read More >>

Britain's supremacy in the nineteenth century depended in large part on its vast deposits of coal. This coal not...  Read More >>

The Coade stone factory in London was active between 1769 and 1840. Coade stone was fired clay made using a special...  Read More >>

The coal mine represented much more than a way of making a living to the miners of Thurber, Texas, in the late nineteenth...  Read More >>

The St Joe Company is a fiscally powerful force in the real-estate development of northwest Florida, with access...  Read More >>

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

Written at a time when the lumber industry had shifted westward, the chapters in this book recall the days when...  Read More >>

Smith explains how France abandoned merchant capitalism for the corporate enterprise that would come to dominate...  Read More >>

The common ground, which scientists of different disciplines may endeavour to find when approaching some problem,...  Read More >>

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Documents the world of southern pottery as it shifted from the production of utilitarian wares to the aesthetic...  Read More >>

Most places in Britain have had some connection with the woollen industry. This book traces the history of wool...  Read More >>

The author discusses the ways in which metallurgy permeated all areas of Victorian life and affected changes - literally...  Read More >>

John Bakers Thameside glasshouse in Vauxhall is the first of Londons 17th-century glasshouses to be excavated. This...  Read More >>

Provides a clear framework for positioning the key drivers and influences on automotive manufacturing in Britain....  Read More >>

This book analyses the causes and effects of the shipping market crisis in the 1970s and 1980s - the most severe...  Read More >>