Industrialisation & Industrial History

Between 1815 and 1870, when European industrialisation was in its infancy and Britain enjoyed a technological lead, thousands of British workers em...

The emergence, dominance, and alarmingly rapid retreat of modernist industrial capitalism on Cape Breton Island during the long twentieth century o...

'ONE OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING, ORIGINAL INTELLECTUALS OF HIS GENERATION', Stuart Hall, author of The Hard Road to RenewalThe work of the pioneering ...

By the end of the notorious 1984/85 miners strike many wanted to forget their painful experiences. Many years on people are ready to look back and ...

Examines how primary social ties fueled economic growthSouth Korea's rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaebl (family-owne...

Examines how primary social ties fueled economic growthSouth Korea's rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaebl (family-owne...

** A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK **'Fascinating . . . The history of the world through the eye of a needle . . . I recommend this book to anyone' THE ...

Winner of the 2013 New York Book Show Award in Scholarly/Professional Book Design From Ernest and Julio Gallo to Francis Ford Coppola, Italians hav...

Focusing on urban development and the influence of urbanization on industrialization, this volume reflects a radical rethinking of the traditional ...

This volume explores the possibilities of studying embodied subjects in the past through the sources and approaches of archaeology, history and mat...

By the close of the eighteenth century, learning to read and write became closely associated with learning about the material world, and a vast ar...

The word was that you could earn $17,000 a month in the Bakken Oilfield of North Dakota. So they flooded in: the profiteers, deadbeats, ex-cons, dr...

No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday - and what happened ...

In this ambitious new interdisciplinary study, Useche proposes the metaphor of the social foundry to parse how industrialization informed and shape...

Eric Davis challenges classic theories of dependency and imperialism and explains the history of the Bank Misr by interrelating world market forces...

Focusing on urban development and the influence of urbanization on industrialization, this volume reflects a radical rethinking of the traditional ...

An innovative study of labor relations, particularly the interactions of recruitment agents and migrant workers, in the mining concessions of Wassa...

Letters between a colliery manager and his employer provide valuable evidence for the growth and development of the coal trade in north-east Englan...