Industrialisation & Industrial History

Anyone interested in the real London needs to read this. - Andrew MarrNo city can survive without water, and lots of it. Today we take the stuff fo...

In this landmark study of American labor history, Meredith Tax charts the actions of women in working-class, feminist, and socialist movements betw...

The first edition (1973) was acclaimed and it firmly established the Shropshire Coalfield as the cradle of the Industrial Revolution. After several...

The Age of Revolution is the first of four works by Eric Hobsbawm that collectively synthesize the ideas he developed over a lifetime spent studyin...

For nearly seventy years, John J. Young Jr. photographed railroads. With unparalleled scope and span, he documented the impact and beauty of railwa...

Everyday Technology is a pioneering account of how small machines and consumer goods that originated in Europe and North America became objects of ...

Steam traction engines were most widespread in Scotland from the 1880s until the 1940s - mainly for road haulage, powering threshing mills, ploughi...

Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level/Subject: AS and A Level History First teaching: 2015 First exams...

In the United Kingdom surface coal mining began in 1942 in response to a national shortage of deep-mined coal. By the 1980s, when Dave Wootton bega...

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 ...