Industrialisation & Industrial History

Few other cities can compare with Rome's history of continuous habitation, nor with the survival of so many different epochs in its present. This v...

In the decades following the 1997 Asian economic crisis, South Korea sought segyehwa (globalization). Evidence of this is no more evident than in t...

The phenomena of Japan emerging as one of the most competitive industrial nations in the twentieth century and the general shift of competitiveness...

Published in 1997, each volume in this new series is a collection of seminal articles on a theme of central importance in the study of transport hi...

Local enterprise, institutional quality and strategic location were of central importance in the growth of medieval towns. This book, comprising a ...

This book investigates the architectural history of China in the Mao era (19491976), focusing on the rise of modernism in the last seven years of t...

In 1864 Abraham Lincoln appointed Elihu Burritt as United States consul in Birmingham. Burritt captured the very nature of the Black Countrys uniqu...

What part has organized labour played in the history of modern Britain? To what extent has British society been shaped by working class organizatio...

In 1769, the Welsh antiquary Thomas Pennant admired Stockton-on-Tees as a 'handsome town' with a 'remarkably fine high street'. Only a century earl...

An electronic version of this book is also available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) license, thanks to the support of the Wellcome Trust.Co...

Originally published in 1977, this book explains the complexity of collective bargaining and discusses the nature of trade unionism and trade union...

This is a book about urban complexity how it evolves and how it gets destroyed. It explores the structures of interdependency which underpin citie...

Learning behind Bars is an oral history of former Irish republican prisoners in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland between 1971, the year...

This monograph puts a focus on the fundamental role of timber, in the European industrialization process. This ties into analyzing the early stages...

This book offers a historical analysis of the landfill sites in New York City, Greater Toronto, and Greater Tel Aviv, and uses them as case studies...

Delve into the history of energy resource conflicts, their present status, and the potential effects of today's energy production decisions on the ...

Emma Paterson was a pioneer of trade unionism for women. In her short life, she set up a League dedicated to that cause, edited a newspaper to publ...

A new and updated edition of the classic history of the British railway, published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of train travel in 2025.T...

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...

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

Since the mid-1970s, the colloquial term zone has often been associated with the troubled post-war housing estates on the outskirts of large French...

Volume 2 of this two-volume companion study into the administration, experience, impact and representation of summary justice in Scotland explores ...

The fourteen essays that comprise this volume concentrate on festival iconography, the visual and written languages, including ephemeral and perman...

Germany was the most powerful kingdom in the medieval West from the mid-tenth to the mid-thirteenth century. However, its history remains largely u...

The guild buildings of Shakespeares Stratford represent a rare instance of a largely unchanged set of buildings which draw together the threads of ...

The guild buildings of Shakespeares Stratford represent a rare instance of a largely unchanged set of buildings which draw together the threads of ...

This volume provides readers interested in urban history with a collection of essays on the evolution of public space in that paradigmatic western ...

Gathering a group of internationally renowned scholars, this volume presents cutting-edge research on the complex processes of identity formation i...

Going to Market rethinks womens contributions to the early modern commercial economy. A number of previous studies have focused on whether or not t...

The cafe is not only a place to enjoy a cup of coffee, it is also a space - distinct from its urban environment - in which to reflect and take part...

L.T.C. Rolt played a crucial role in the revival of Britains inland waterways and pioneered the first preserved narrow-gauge railway. He is still a...

In The Georgian Triumph, 17001830 (originally published in 1983), Michael Reed re-creates the ambience of eighteenth-century Britain, a period of a...

A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLERestores Chinas place in forest historyThe disappearance of Chinas naturally occurring forests is one of the mos...

This book is an interdisciplinary study that draws on a combination of archaeological evidence, building archaeological analysis, archival sources ...

From Jean Baptiste Point DuSable to Oprah Winfrey, black entrepreneurship has helped define Chicago. Robert E. Weems Jr. and Jason P. Chambers cura...

This interdisciplinary volume focuses on the politics, economics, technologies, uses, and cultures of maintenance of different forms of communicati...