Industrialisation & Industrial History

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 ...

The book begins with a history of the industrial development of the Tondu Valleys, including the succession of great industrialists who led the way...