Industrialisation & Industrial History
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World History: From the Ancient World to the Information Age
DKCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99An essential gift for every history buff, this boldly illustrated book maps out the events that have shaped our world - from the dawn of human civi...
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Chocolate Wars: From Cadbury to Kraft: 200 years of Sweet Success and Bitter Rivalry
Deborah CadburyCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50The delicious true story of the early chocolate pioneers by the award-winning writer, and direct descendant of the famous chocolate dynasty, Debora...
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The Industrial Turn in World History
Nicholas C. ZakasCurrent price €41.39Original price €45.99In The Industrial Turn in World History, Peter N. Stearns presents a concise yet far reaching overview of the worldwide shift from agricultural soc...
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The Planning Imagination: Peter Hall and the Study of Urban and Regional Planning
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €58.49Original price €64.99Knighted in 1998 for services to the Town and Country Planning Association, and in 2003 named by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as a Pioneer in the...
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The Education of Things: Mechanical Literacy in British Children''s Literature, 17621860
Elizabeth Fabry Massa HoiemCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99By the close of the eighteenth century, learning to read and write became closely associated with learning about the material world, and a vast arr...
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Management and Labor Conflict: An Introduction to the US and Canadian History
Jason RussellCurrent price €49.27Original price €55.99Management and labor have been adversaries in American and Canadian workplaces since the time of colonial settlement. Labor lacked full legal legit...
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Europes Infrastructure Transition: Economy, War, Nature
Arne KaijserCurrent price €66.59Original price €73.99Europe's infrastructure both united and divided peoples and places via economic systems, crises, and wars. Some used transport, communication, and...
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Manufacturing Catastrophe: Massachusetts and the Making of Global Capitalism, 1813 to the Present
Shaun S. NicholsCurrent price €82.79Original price €91.99American economic history has traditionally been told as a narrative of industrialization and affluence collapsing into globalization and industria...
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Pathways to Power: A History of Lanesborough Power Station
Brendan WhittyCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99`We watched as holes were dug in fields and along the roadside and lorries dropped off the poles. Before too long the local electrician came canvas...
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The Factory in a Garden: A History of Corporate Landscapes from the Industrial to the Digital Age
Helena ChanceCurrent price €87.11Original price €98.99When we think about Victorian factories, 'Dark Satanic Mills' might spring to mind - images of blackened buildings and exhausted, exploited workers...
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Financing Cotton: British Industrial Growth and Decline, 1780-2000
Steven TomsCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99This book links the world of finance directly to the fate of the cotton and textile industry, long a metaphor for the rise and fall of Britain as a...
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Manufacturing Catastrophe: Massachusetts and the Making of Global Capitalism, 1813 to the Present
Shaun S. NicholsCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99American economic history has traditionally been told as a narrative of industrialization and affluence collapsing into globalization and industria...
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Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India
Amanda LanzilloCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminoso...
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Organisation und Geschäft: Unternehmensorganisation in Frankreich und Deutschland 1890--1914
Heinrich HartmannCurrent price €80.09Original price €88.99Text in German. The phase of the so-called Second Industrialization at the turn of the century was characterized in Germany and France by new forms...
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Challenging Colonialism: Bank Misr and Egyptian Industrialization, 1920-1941
Eric DavisCurrent price €95.39Original price €105.99Eric Davis challenges classic theories of dependency and imperialism and explains the history of the Bank Misr by interrelating world market forces...
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The Rise and Fall of The Freedman''s Bank: And its Lasting Socio-Economic Impact on Black America
Rodney A. BrooksCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99The author tells the history of the Freedman's Savings Bank, how it grew much too quickly, why it failed and the impact on Black America. The end o...
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UNITE History Volumes 1-6
Adrian WeirCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99Sold as a multi-volume set the individual volumes are also available for purchase. This is the complete collection of six paperback volumes on the...
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The Age of Coal: A History of Europe, 1750 to the Present
Franz-Josef BrüggemeierCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99In Europe, coal was by far the most important source of energy from the beginning of industrialisation until well after the Second World War. It wa...
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Churchill''s American Arsenal: The Partnership Behind the Innovations that Won World War Two
Larrie D. FerreiroCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Churchill's American Arsenal reveals how the technology, know-how, and production power behind the victorious Allied partnership during World War I...
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Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway
Mikiya KoyagiCurrent price €65.44Original price €76.99Completed in 1938, the Trans-Iranian Railway connected Tehran to Iran's two major bodies of water: the Caspian Sea in the north and the Persian Gul...
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Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway
Mikiya KoyagiCurrent price €65.44Original price €76.99Completed in 1938, the Trans-Iranian Railway connected Tehran to Iran's two major bodies of water: the Caspian Sea in the north and the Persian Gul...
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Slaughterhouse: Chicago''s Union Stock Yard and the World It Made
Dominic A. PacygaCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99From the minute it opened-on Christmas Day in 1865-it was Chicago's must-see tourist attraction, drawing more than half a million visitors each yea...
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Sound, Space and Civility in the British World, 1700-1850
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99In this collection, the essays examine the critical role that judgments about noise and sound played in framing the meaning of civility in British ...
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Artisans Abroad: British Migrant Workers in Industrialising Europe, 1815-1870
Fabrice BensimonCurrent price €87.29Original price €96.99Between 1815 and 1870, when European industrialisation was in its infancy and Britain enjoyed a technological lead, thousands of British workers em...
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