Industrialisation & Industrial History

Telegraphy in the nineteenth century approximated the internet in our own day. Historian and electrical engineer David Hochfelder offers readers a ...

Americans have been riding bikes for more than a century now. So why are most American cities still so ill-prepared to handle cyclists? James Longh...

During the middle decades of the twentieth century, the production of America's consumer culture was centralized in midtown Manhattan to an extent ...

How prisons became economic development strategies for rural Appalachian communities As the United States began the project of mass incarceration, ...

The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley.Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich...

From 18681872, German geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen went on an expedition to China. His reports on what he found there would transform Western...

Warship Builders is the first scholarly study of the U.S. naval shipbuilding industry from the early 1920s to the end of World War II, when America...

Outstanding Title by Choice MagazineOn the banks of the Pacific Northwests greatest river lies the Hanford nuclear reservation, an industrial site ...

Poetry & Strikes examines shifting representations of strike action in the work of six British poets from the 1970s to the present day. It cons...

Published in 2008 and winner of the 2011 Thomas E. Skidmore Prize, Paulo Fontes's Migration and the Making of Industrial São Paulo is a detailed so...

Explains the astonishing growth of Middlesbrough from a hamlet to a very substantial town in the space of a few decades in the middle of the ninete...

In 1919, the doors of Youngstown's Butler Institute of American Art were opened for the first time. Dubbed the lighthouse of culture, both the b...

An account of modernization and technological innovation in nineteenth-century Brazil that provides a distinctly Brazilian perspective. Existing sc...

During the twentieth century, the Soviet Union turned the Kola Peninsula in the northwest corner of the country into one of the most populated, ind...

In this incisive analysis of one of the most spectacular economic breakthroughs in the Deng era, Jean C. Oi shows how and why Chinese rural-based i...

A comprehensive study of the occupational health of employed children within the broader context of social, industrial and environmental change bet...

William Edmundson examines the spectacular life story of 'Colonel' John Thomas North, also known as 'The Nitrate King,' a mechanic in Leeds who bec...

This stunning book is a glorious celebration of all things train and track!Packed with stunning photography, The Train Book catalogues the developm...

Combining historical, social and regulative analysis, this book builds a compelling critique of frontier thinking as it continues to form our assum...