Industrialisation & industrial history books

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The Herculaneum Pottery: Liverpool's Forgotten Glory

The Herculaneum Pottery: Liverpool's Forgotten Glory...

Author: Peter Hyland
ISBN: 9780853239697
Format: Hardback
$250.80

The emergence of Herculaneum pottery in early nineteenth-century Liverpool marked a pivotal moment in the clay arts....  Read More >>

Labor, Civil Rights, and the Hughes Tool Company

Labor, Civil Rights, and the Hughes Tool Company

Author: Michael R. Botson
ISBN: 9781585444380
Format: Hardback
$113.52

Drawing on interviews with many principals, as well as extensive mining of company and legal archives, the author's...  Read More >>

Industrial Revolution

Industrial Revolution

Author: Neil J Smelser (University of California Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780415378376
Format: Mixed media product
$2205.00

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The Irony of State Intervention: American Industrial Relations Policy in Comparative Perspective, 1914–1939

The Irony of State Intervention: American Industrial...

Author: Helga Gerber
ISBN: 9780875803470
Format: Hardback
$105.60

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Leaders Count: The Story of the BNSF Railway

Leaders Count: The Story of the BNSF Railway

Author: Lawrence H. Kaufman
ISBN: 9780972449526
Format: Hardback
$71.15

Describes the dramatic story of how the Aurora Branch Railroad, which spanned from Aurora, Illinois, to Chicago,...  Read More >>

Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Railway That United America

Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the...

Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
ISBN: 9781416511427
Format: Paperback
$38.79

An unparalleled account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision and matchless determination: the building...  Read More >>

The Globalizations of Organized Labour: 1945-2004

The Globalizations of Organized Labour: 1945-2004

Author: G. Myconos
ISBN: 9781403993380
Format: Hardback
$182.00

Using two 'touchstone' indicators - the extent of cross-border integration, and the autonomy vis-à-vis the state...  Read More >>

Ironmaking: The History and Archaeology of the British Iron Industry

Ironmaking: The History and Archaeology of the British...

Author: Richard Hayman
ISBN: 9780752433745
Format: Paperback
$54.95

From the heady days at Coalbrookdale on the banks of the Severn to the decline of a once-mighty industry, Richard...  Read More >>

Yorkshire Mining Veterans

Yorkshire Mining Veterans

Author: Brian A. Elliott
ISBN: 9781903425589
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Yorkshire Mining Veterans is an extraordinary collection of stories told by the Veterans of the mines. Their memories...  Read More >>

The Industrial Revolution Explained: Steam, Sparks and Massive Wheels - An Illustrated Guide to the Technology that Changed Britain Forever

The Industrial Revolution Explained: Steam, Sparks and...

Author: Stan Yorke
ISBN: 9781853069352
Format: Paperback
$23.26

In this concise illustrated guide, Stan Yorke tells the story of how machines changed the face of industry and farming...  Read More >>

England's Glory: The Moreland's Story

England's Glory: The Moreland's Story

Author: Peter Campion
ISBN: 9780752435671
Format: Paperback
$38.79

For almost 120 years, the company of Moreland's manufactured England's Glory matches, at Gloucester's Bristol Road,...  Read More >>

Queen Coal: Women of the Miners' Strike

Queen Coal: Women of the Miners' Strike

Author: Triona Holden
ISBN: 9780750939713
Format: Hardback
$55.00

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The History of Black Mineworkers in South Africa, 1871-1994: Three Volume Set

The History of Black Mineworkers in South Africa, 1871-1994:...

Author: V.L. Allen
ISBN: 9780850365696
Format: Hardback
$258.75

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Vauxhall: A History

Vauxhall: A History

Author: Robert Cook ,  Robert Cook
ISBN: 9780752434162
Format: Paperback
$46.55

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History of British European Airways 1946-1972

History of British European Airways 1946-1972

Author: Charles Woodley
ISBN: 9781844151868
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Analyses British European Airways' predecessors, its formation and early operation from Croydon and Northolt and...  Read More >>

Birmingham and The Black Country's Canalside Industries

Birmingham and The Black Country's Canalside Industries...

Author: Ray Shill
ISBN: 9780752432625
Format: Paperback
$43.96

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Clay Cross & Clay Cross Company

Clay Cross & Clay Cross Company

Author: Gareth Williams
ISBN: 9781845881429
Format: Paperback
$15.50

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The History of Black Mineworkers in South Africa

The History of Black Mineworkers in South Africa

Author: V.L. Allen
ISBN: 9780850365658
Format: Hardback
$103.50

South Africa's prosperity was built on the wealth dragged out of the ground by mine workers: the first volume of...  Read More >>

The History of Black Mineworkers in South Africa

The History of Black Mineworkers in South Africa

Author: V.L. Allen
ISBN: 9780850365665
Format: Hardback
$103.50

Surveys developments from the establishment of the Apartheid state to 1982 when it was being challenged in the mines,...  Read More >>

The History of Black Mineworkers in South Africa: Organise or Die, 1982-1994

The History of Black Mineworkers in South Africa: Organise...

Author: V.L. Allen
ISBN: 9780850365672
Format: Hardback
$129.38

The formation of the National Union of Mineworkers in 1982, its aim for solidarity amongst mineworkers, opposition...  Read More >>

Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution

Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early...

Author: Anthony F. C. Wallace
ISBN: 9780803298538
Format: Paperback
$52.67

The story of the Industrial Revolution as it was by experienced by the men, women, and children of the cotton-manufacturing...  Read More >>

Sewing Women: Immigrants and the New York City Garment Industry

Sewing Women: Immigrants and the New York City Garment...

Author: Margaret Chin (Associate Professor, Hunter College) ,  Gary Y. Okihiro
ISBN: 9780231133081
Format: Hardback
$173.95

Many Latino and Chinese women who immigrated to New York City, found work in the garment industry - an industry...  Read More >>

Chinese Capitalists Versus the American Flour Industry, 1890-1910: Profit and Patriotism in International Trade

Chinese Capitalists Versus the American Flour Industry,...

Author: Daniel J Meissner
ISBN: 9780773460409
Format: Hardback
$290.27

Highlights the relationship between Chinese capitalists and the government, which stimulated successful private...  Read More >>

Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the American West, 1850-1930

Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the...

Author: Richard J. Orsi
ISBN: 9780520200197
Format: Hardback
$105.60

The only major US railroad to be operated by westerners and the only railroad built from west to east, the Southern...  Read More >>

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