Industrialisation & Industrial History

Described as the best MP Scotland never had, Jimmy Reid was undoubtedly of the most important figures of late twentieth-century Britain. Often at t...

This work is concerned with human migration at the turn of the twentieth century, specifically with iron workers moving from Spain to south Wales. ...

This volume brings the history of the environment together with that of work. Faced with the great acceleration of the second half of the twentieth...

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

With Foreword by Tony Benn.This edited collection explores the British labour movement's relationship with imperialism in the period 18001982 throu...

The DanubeOderElbe Canal attracted a great deal of attention throughout the twentieth century. Its promoters, The DanubeOderElbe Canal, attracted a...

Drawing on the papers presented at CEEJAs* first international conference addressing the long-neglected field relating to the generation, dissemina...

Why 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...

Big 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...

Big 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...

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...

For over a hundred years, technological change has been framed using a simple narrative: technology drives history. Reframing Technology challenges...

This 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...

An ambitious and shocking exposé of Americas hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadow In the early 1...

A well-rendered and -documented tale of exploitation in the developing world (Kirkus Reviews) with deep resonance in the present day In a book Pa...

Life in the early twentieth-century coalmining communities changed very little for the women who dedicated their lives to their miner husbands. The...

A new literary-cultural history of the Industrial Revolution in Britain from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Working against t...