Industrialisation & Industrial History

In 1973 a group of North Wales building workers were arrested for picketing-related offences during the first and only national building workers st...

When the new town established in East Shropshire acquired the name Telford in 1968, sign boards set up on major roads entering the designated area ...

This book offers a comprehensive history of the Czechoslovak Ocean Shipping Company (C. O. S.) from its beginning in the late 1940s until the fall ...

Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta examines the history of labor relations and racial conflict in the Mississippi Valley from the Civil War int...

ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL is famous for the engineering wonders he left behind - from the SS Great Britain to the delights of Paddington and Temple...

The extraordinary, unknown story of two giants of American historyHenry Ford and Thomas Edisonand their attempt to create an electric-powered city ...

The peoples of the British Isles gave to the world the foundations on which modern manufacturing economies are built. This is quite an assertion, b...

This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way...

This is a fascinating combination of biographical material about the great Scottish engineer Thomas Telford (1757-1834), and a modern travelogue th...

This seminal book reveals how black labour was exploited in twentieth-century South Africa, the human costs of which are still largely hidden from ...

This review describes the rail-connected quarries of the UK-based Aggregates Industries group, trading as Bardon Aggregates, a company that started...

Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta examines the history of labor relations and racial conflict in the Mississippi Valley from the Civil War int...

Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse explores the connection between the so-called robber barons who led American big businesses during the Gilded Age...

Discover how humans created their world from the objects they left behind - from the US Constitution to the first iPhone - in DK's latest history b...

Epsom is the home of the Derby, where racehorses from the training stables can be seen every morning riding out on the world-famous Downs. But it h...

2020 Book of the Year  International Labor History Association Honorable Mention Philip Taft Labor History Prize This rich history details the...

Workington has long been a producer of coal and steel. The huge Cumbrian iron ore field lies to the south of the town and with the local coalfield ...

St Andrews is famous the world over as being the home of golf but although golf clubs are still designed and manufactured here, theres a lot more t...

The market town of Petersfield lies on the edge of the beautiful South Downs, and it has much to thank its idyllic location for. From medieval orig...

The popular north Wales seaside resort of Llandudno has a surprisingly long and intriguing history that predates the development of the present tow...

In the 1960s, Tillamook County was at war with itself. As the regional dairy industry shifted from small local factories to larger consolidated fac...

We think of the Stephensons and Brunel as the fathers of the railways, and their Liverpool and Manchester and Great Western Railways as the prototy...

Almost everything you know about airships is wrong. Between 1917 and 1935, the US Navy poured tens of millions of dollars into their airship progra...

This important resource provides readers with many new ways to explore the emergence of modern America in the years of 1868 to 1918. The text provi...

Synthesizing a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán offers a fresh study of Yucatáns complex and vio­lent histo...

This book reveals what is happening in small communities across the United States as their newspapers struggle to survive. It is a celebration n...

From 1828 until the late 1860s, the Upper Missouri Outfit of the American Fur Company controlled the fur trade on the upper Missouri River from hea...

Once the beehive coke oven was perfected in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, the coal and coke industry began to flourish and supply other fledglin...