Industrialisation & Industrial History

This sixth volume in the European Festival Studies series stems from a joint conference (Venice, 2013) between the Society for European Festivals R...

First emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, architectural reconstruction has increasingly become an instrument to visually revive a l...

This book discusses the transformation of labour movements and trade unionism in post-liberalised India. It looks at emerging collectivism, both in...

Florence in the Early Modern World offers new perspectives on this important city by exploring the broader global context of the fifteenth and sixt...

Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers examines the emergence of a new class of industrial entrepreneur and the world it confronted and shaped. Histor...

This is the first book to describe the early English woollens industry and its dominance of the trade in quality cloth across Europe by the mid-six...

Medium-Sized Cities in the Age of Globalisation provides a brand-new perspective on academic discussions of globalisation through exploring urban d...

This book argues that long-distance trade in luxury items such as diamonds, gold, cinnamon, scented woods, ivory and pearls, all of which require ...

Globalisation has created many opportunities for economic development, but it is also associated with rising income inequality and poverty. Interna...

This is the story of Cuban tobacco, whose agricultural and industrial development was fashioned as deftly as a Havana cigar around overseas trading...

This volume examines the pivotal role of movement, visibility, and experience within Pompeian houses as a major factor determining house form; the ...

This title was first published in 2002: Since the invention of printing in the mid-fifteenth century the production, distribution and consumption o...

Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape brings together various disciplinary perspectives and diverse theories on arts dialecti...

The Challenge of Labour (1980) explains the changing forms of labours relationship with British society during the period of 1850 to 1930 as the e...

Taking the form of two companion volumes, Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland represents the first major investigation into the administra...

This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by expert series editors and contextualised by new analysis from each author on ho...

Charles Baudelaires flâneur, as described in his 1863 essay The Painter of Modern Life, remains central to understandings of gender, space, and the...

Early modern Naples has been characterized as a marginal, wild and exotic place on the fringes of the European world, and as such an appropriate ta...

This interesting and informative book shows how different groups of urban residents with different social, economic, and political power cope with ...

This book is about the role played by architects, engineers and planners in transforming France during the three post-war decades of growing prospe...

Bengals traditional industries, once celebrated worldwide, largely decayed under the backwash effects of the British Industrial Revolution in the f...

Adopting Argentinas popular uprisings against neoliberalism including the 2001-02 rebellion and subsequent mass protests as a case study, The Mobil...

Popular belief holds that throwing the contents of a chamber pot into the street was a common occurrence during the early modern period. This book ...

Cities the world over and in particular developing countries suffer from uneven development and inequality. This is often coupled with the view tha...