Industrialisation & Industrial History

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...

James Watt (1736-1819) was a pivotal figure of the Industrial Revolution. His career as a scientific instrument maker, inventor and engineer was de...

Guiding the reader through the many guises of global economic history, this book uncovers its key issues, debates and subjects. With contributions ...

Guiding the reader through the many guises of global economic history, this book uncovers its key issues, debates and subjects. With contributions ...

In Fighting Deindustrialisation, Andy Clark outlines and examines one of the most significant and under-researched periods in modern Scottish labou...

A radical new history of energy and humanity's insatiable need for resources that will change the way we talk about climate changeIt has become hab...