Industrialisation & Industrial History

This is the first book to examine in a systematic way the entrepreneurial society of the Welsh Valleys. Until now, almost everything written about ...

Published 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...

From the beginning of the eighteenth century to the high water mark of the Victorian era, the world was transformed by a technological revolution t...

The 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...

The 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...

This volume tells a story of Welsh industrial history different from the one traditionally dominated by the coal and iron communities of Victorian ...

This book examines the complex interplay between industrial heritage and tourism. It serves to stimulate meaningful dialogue about the socioeconomi...

This study offers an analysis of the technological and entrepreneurial features of the Victorian telegraph service, together with the companies whi...

This volume of original essays considers how the International Labour Organization has helped generate a set of ideas and practices, past and prese...

From the Jaws of Victory:The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement is the most comprehensive history ever written on the...

Europe's critical infrastructure is a key concern to policymakers, NGOs, companies, and citizens today. A 2006 power line failure in northern Germa...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offere...

The Port of Los Angeles is all around us. Objects we use on a daily basis pass through it: furniture, apparel, electronics, automobiles, and much m...

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED S...

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED S...

Explore Britain's remaining historic lines with railway expert Julian Holland. The essential guide to exploring Britains last remaining h...

The rivalry for trade in tea and textiles between the English and Dutch East India companies is very much a global history. This trade is strongly ...

Militant Minority tells the compelling story of British Columbia workers who sustained a left tradition during the bleakest days of the Cold War. T...

One of the worlds largest sellers of footwear, the Bata Company of Zlín, Moravia has a remarkable history that touches on crucial aspects of what m...

Few cultural activities speak more powerfully to international histories of the modern world than football. In the late nineteenth century, this ch...

Few cultural activities speak more powerfully to international histories of the modern world than football. In the late nineteenth century, this ch...

The aim of this book is to track the historical origins of Chinas economic reforms. From the 1920s and 1930s strong ties were built between Chinese...

A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume II offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social and economic institutions of comme...

Half a century ago, deindustrialization gutted blue-collar jobs in the American Midwest. But today, these places are not ghost towns. People still ...

Half a century ago, deindustrialization gutted blue-collar jobs in the American Midwest. But today, these places are not ghost towns. People still ...

A World History of Rubber helps readers understand and gain new insights into the social and cultural contexts of global production and consumption...

A look at the extensive inequality and individualism in Prince George's County, Maryland, and the wider tobacco south, this book draws on colonial ...

The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday, the heroics and betrayals of the Miners' Strike, and what happened to mining com...

Mining in Cornwall and Devon is an economic history of mines, mineral ownership, and mine management in the South West of England. The work brings...

Being environmentally conscious is not nearly as modern as we imagine. As a mode of thinking it goes back hundreds of years. Yet we typically imagi...

Mysterious ghost stations forgotten beneath the cities of Paris and London; desolate grand rail hubs in the Pyrenean mountains; metro stations in C...

'Fascinating revelations' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'An immensely valuable guide to a great and terrible industry' The Economist 'The book I have l...

Sold as a multi-volume set the individual volumes are also available for purchase. The fourteen years between 1960 and-1974 saw the trade union an...

A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made it What Manchester thi...

From the Roaring Twenties through to the Great Depression, Irving Bernstein presents a comprehensive history of the American workforce. The Lean Ye...

A groundbreaking moment in the discourse of the labour movement and a classic text which revolutionised social history. Bernstein uncovers a period...

When Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne in 1952, the talk was of a New Elizabethan Age of British economic and technological achievement founded...

Building for Oil is a historical account of the development of the oil town of Daqing in northeastern China during the formative years of the Peopl...

A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their families Forty ...