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...