Industrialisation & Industrial History
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Why the Industrial Revolution Happened in Britain
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50Britains key importance in world history was a product of its constitution and its empire, but both, in turn, were sustained and supported by Brita...
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The Industrial Revolution: The State, Knowledge and Global Trade
William J. AshworthCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99The British Industrial Revolution has long been seen as the spark for modern, global industrialization and sustained economic growth. Indeed the or...
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The British Fertility Decline: Demographic Transition in the Crucible of the Industrial Revolution
Michael S. TeitelbaumCurrent price €107.09Original price €118.99Building on the theory of the demographic transition, Michael S. Teitelbaum assesses the dramatic decline in British fertility from 1841 to 1931 in...
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The Highest Perfection: A History of De La Rue
Peter PughCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99Current price €35.99Original price €39.99Save 10% -
Labor''s End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work
Jason ResnikoffCurrent price €101.69Original price €112.99Labor's End traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-ranging implications in political and social life. A...
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Butterworth: A Case Study of Apartheid Industrial Decentralisation and Democratic De-Industralisation, 1968 to 2007
Jongikhaya MveneneCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99This book takes the reader back to the era of industrialisation during the time of apartheid in South Africa, particularly in Butterworth in the Ea...
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The Radical Potter: Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain
Tristram HuntCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50*Longlisted for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History, 2022*A spectacular new biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitio...
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Food Chains: From Farmyard to Shopping Cart
University of Pennsylvania PressCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99In recent years, the integrity of food production and distribution has become an issue of wide social concern. The media frequently report on cases...
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Between Depression and Disarmament: The International Armaments Business, 19191939
Jonathan A. GrantCurrent price €86.23Original price €97.99This business history analyzes the connections between private business, disarmament, and re-armament as they affected arms procurement and militar...
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Capitalism, Inequality and Labour in India
Jan BremanCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99Jan Breman takes dispossession as his central theme in this ambitious analysis of labour bondage in India's changing political economy from 1962 to...
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Pollock: Agricultural Implement Makers 1867-2017
Jimmy McGheeCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50Current price €23.85Original price €26.50Save 10% -
How Hull Coloured the World: The inside story of Sissons'' Paints and Hall''s Distemper
Anthony C. SissonsCurrent price €68.72Original price €78.99Sissons' Paints was part of Hull. For over 150 years, the Sissons family, through six generations, treated their ever-expanding company workforce a...
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Brotherhoods, Engineers for Power, Transport & Weapons
Sydney A LeleuxCurrent price €26.85Original price €33.99Current price €26.85Original price €33.99Save 21% -
How Great a Crime - to Tell the Truth: The story of Joseph and Winifred Gales and the Sheffield Register
Steven KayCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99Current price €15.29Original price €16.99Save 10% -
The Useful Knowledge of William Hutton: Culture and Industry in Eighteenth-Century Birmingham
Susan E. WhymanCurrent price €53.09Original price €58.99The Useful Knowledge of William Hutton shows the rapid rise of a self-taught workman and the growing prominence of the city of Birmingham during th...
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Oxford at Work: People and Industries Through the Years
Stanley C. JenkinsCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99The city of Oxford has a long and prosperous history. First mentioned by name in the early tenth century as one of the burhs, or fortified places, ...
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Coal Mining in Britain
Richard HaymanCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99An illustrated history of Britains coal mines and the lives of the miners who worked in them. Coal heated the homes, fuelled the furnaces and powe...
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Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 18001906
David CannadineCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2018 'This is stupendous. The British nineteenth century, in all its complexity, all its horror, all its ener...
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Danish Liners Around the World
Bruce PeterCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99Through a combination of business acumen and technical innovation in the twentieth century, Danish shipping lines gradually expanded, gaining marke...
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Ironstone Mining in the Lincolnshire Wolds
Stewart SquiresCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Current price €17.99Original price €19.99Save 10% -
Robert Walker Haulage Ltd.: The History of the UK''s Largest Fork Truck Transport Company
Carl JarmanCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50This book tells the story of Robert Walker Haulage. Established in 1935, Robert Walker never intended to run a haulage business; he initially bough...
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The Guinness Story: The Family, The Business and The Black Stuff
Dr. Edward J. BourkeCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and...
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The Windmills of North West Kent and Kentish London: (And the Men Who Built Them)
Rob CummingCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50Current price €22.53Original price €26.50Save 15%