Industrialisation & Industrial History

From local legend, newspaper reports and family history, Alistair Findlay has pieced together a comprehensive documentary of Scotland's shale minin...

Exploring some of the worlds eeriest places, Abandoned Islands features American civil war forts, Europes last leper colony and South Atlantic whal...

American business has always had deep roots in community. For over a century, the country looked to philanthropic industrialists to finance hosp...

Millstone Grit takes the form of a fifty mile walk through the West Riding and East Lancashire, exploring the industrial towns and moors. Glyn Hugh...

An illustrated introduction to how British industries, supported by thousands of newly recruited women, strove to meet the nations wartime need for...

Founded in 1894, the Mosaic Tile Company was the dream of two ceramic pioneers who intended to manufacture innovative ceramic mosaic murals whil...

Until the 1960's The Clyde was synonymous with shipbuilding with many yards dotted on both sides of the river all the way from Glasgow to Greenock....

Born in Roanoke County, Virginia, on the eve of the Emancipation Proclamation, Richard L. Davis was an early mine labor organizer in Rendville, ...

In 1893, Indianapolis carriage maker Charles Black created a rudimentary car - perhaps the first designed and built in America. Within 15 years, In...

In 1922, a coal miner strike spread across the United States, swallowing the heavily-unionized mining town of Herrin, Illinois. When the owner of t...

Dublin 1913 a city of haves and have-nots. The business-owners lived comfortably, with servants and fine homes. They barely knew of the lives of ...

A History of the Liverpool Waterfront 1850-1890: The Struggle for Organisation is a detailed and comprehensive picture of the port of Liverpool in ...

Engines for empire examines the use of the railway by the British army from the 1830s to 1914, a period of domestic political strife and unpreceden...

Millions of immigrants from eastern and southern Europe were by 1914 doing the dirtiest, most dangerous jobs in America's mines, mills and facto...

Today, surveillance and regulation of employees are pervasive at all levels (except the highest) in a wide variety of American workplaces. Digit...

Anyone interested in the real London needs to read this. - Andrew MarrNo city can survive without water, and lots of it. Today we take the stuff fo...

In this landmark study of American labor history, Meredith Tax charts the actions of women in working-class, feminist, and socialist movements betw...

The first edition (1973) was acclaimed and it firmly established the Shropshire Coalfield as the cradle of the Industrial Revolution. After several...

The Age of Revolution is the first of four works by Eric Hobsbawm that collectively synthesize the ideas he developed over a lifetime spent studyin...

For nearly seventy years, John J. Young Jr. photographed railroads. With unparalleled scope and span, he documented the impact and beauty of railwa...

Everyday Technology is a pioneering account of how small machines and consumer goods that originated in Europe and North America became objects of ...

Steam traction engines were most widespread in Scotland from the 1880s until the 1940s - mainly for road haulage, powering threshing mills, ploughi...

Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level/Subject: AS and A Level History First teaching: 2015 First exams...

In the United Kingdom surface coal mining began in 1942 in response to a national shortage of deep-mined coal. By the 1980s, when Dave Wootton bega...

These biographical essays, many reprinted from The Pittsburgh Quarterly, describe the men who transformed Pittsburgh into one of the leading indust...

Every town and city has its story, but few have a history that is essential to understanding how the modern world was made. Manchester was the firs...

L T C Rolt was an engineer and pioneer of industrial history; in this book he combined these two passions to give us a fascinating account of the m...

The history of aluminum: metallurgy, engineering, global business and politics--and the advance of civilization itself. The earth's most abundan...

In the early 20th century, immigration, labor unrest, social reforms and government regulations threatened the power of the countrys largest employ...

In 1846, political economist Karl Marx wrote that without cotton, you have no modern industry. Indeed, before the American Civil War, cotton brough...

From the time of early settlement in Virginia, water-powered mills played a primary role in the state's economy. This work provides an overview ...