Industrialisation & Industrial History
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The Science of Spin: The Force Behind Everything From Falling Cats to Jet Engines
Roland EnnosCurrent price €15.29Original price €17.99Why exactly is the Earth round? How is it that boomerangs can turn in mid-air? And why do cats always land on their feet? Its time to stop think...
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Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of America''s Biggest Retail Stores
University Press of ColoradoCurrent price €82.79Original price €91.99Big Box USA presents a new look at how the big box retail store has dramatically reshaped the US economy and its ecosystems in the last half centur...
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Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of Americas Biggest Retail Stores
University Press of ColoradoCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50Big Box USA presents a new look at how the big box retail store has dramatically reshaped the US economy and its ecosystems in the last half centur...
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The Changing Face of Britain''s Railways 1938-1953: The Railway Companies Bow Out
Robert HendryCurrent price €27.19Original price €31.99Current price €27.19Original price €31.99Save 15% -
The Paris Zone: A Cultural History, 1840-1944
James CannonCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Since the mid-1970s, the colloquial term zone has often been associated with the troubled post-war housing estates on the outskirts of large French...
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Light, Privacy, and Neighbors: Windows in Late Medieval and Early Modern London
Janet S. LoengardCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Density of housing in late medieval and early modern London could make access to light and privacy incompatible, provoking neighbor disputes. This ...
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Reframing Technology: An Intellectual History of Thinking Beyond the Machine
Kent HuffordCurrent price €81.89Original price €90.99For over a hundred years, technological change has been framed using a simple narrative: technology drives history. Reframing Technology challenges...
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The Global Challenge of Peace: 1919 as a Contested Threshold to a New World Order: 2021
Liverpool University PressCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99This book scrutinizes the events of 1919 from below: the global underside of the Wilsonian moment. During 1919 the Great Powers redrew the map of t...
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Empire of Rubber: Firestone''s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
Gregg MitmanCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99An ambitious and shocking exposé of Americas hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadow In the early 1...
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Empire of Rubber: Firestone''s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
Gregg MitmanCurrent price €17.09Original price €18.99A well-rendered and -documented tale of exploitation in the developing world (Kirkus Reviews) with deep resonance in the present day In a book Pa...
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The History of Mining: The events, technology and people involved in the industry that forged the modern world
Michael CoulsonCurrent price €83.69Original price €92.99This book deals with the industry that forged the modern world. Throughout history metals and raw materials have underpinned human activity. So it ...
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Women of the Durham Coalfield in the 20th Century: Hannah''s Daughter
Margaret HedleyCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Life in the early twentieth-century coalmining communities changed very little for the women who dedicated their lives to their miner husbands. The...
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Networks of Improvement: Literature, Bodies, and Machines in the Industrial Revolution
Professor Jon MeeCurrent price €88.19Original price €97.99A new literary-cultural history of the Industrial Revolution in Britain from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Working against t...
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The Tees Newport Bridge: The Untold Story of a Steel River Landmark
Tosh WarwickCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99Current price €23.39Original price €25.99Save 10% -
Ladybarn in the 1970s - a time of conflict: A story of urban renewal and protest in south Manchester
Ruth ShepherdCurrent price €5.94Original price €6.99Current price €5.94Original price €6.99Save 15% -
Fakenham Lancaster Heritage Trail: Discover the rich and varied History of Fakenham Lancaster, Fakenham.The stories behind the Heritage Plaques.
George AchesonCurrent price €5.94Original price €6.99Current price €5.94Original price €6.99Save 15% -
The Entrepreneurial Society of the Rhondda Valleys, 1840-1920: Power and Influence in the Porth-Pontypridd Region
Richard GriffithsCurrent price €57.59Original price €63.99This is the first book to examine in a systematic way the entrepreneurial society of the Welsh Valleys. Until now, almost everything written about ...
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Migration and the Making of Industrial São Paulo
Paulo FontesCurrent price €95.39Original price €105.99Published in 2008 and winner of the 2011 Thomas E. Skidmore Prize, Paulo Fontes's Migration and the Making of Industrial São Paulo is a detailed so...
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A Brief History of How the Industrial Revolution Changed the World
Thomas CrumpCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50From the beginning of the eighteenth century to the high water mark of the Victorian era, the world was transformed by a technological revolution t...
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First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers
Richard LachmannCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99The extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America loses war after war and as one industry after another loses i...
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The East Coast Main Line 1939-1959
Insight GuidesCurrent price €20.39Original price €23.99The book takes an in-depth look at the East Coast Main Line-King's Cross to Edinburgh-between 1939 and 1959. This is carried out in a series of cha...
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New Perspectives on Welsh Industrial History
University of Wales PressCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99This volume tells a story of Welsh industrial history different from the one traditionally dominated by the coal and iron communities of Victorian ...
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It''s Warmer Down Below: The Autobiography of Sir Harold Harding, 1900-1986: 2015
Harold HardingCurrent price €22.09Original price €25.99Current price €22.09Original price €25.99Save 15%