Industrialisation & Industrial History

During the middle decades of the twentieth century, the production of America's consumer culture was centralized in midtown Manhattan to an extent ...

How prisons became economic development strategies for rural Appalachian communities As the United States began the project of mass incarceration, ...

The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley.Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich...

From 18681872, German geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen went on an expedition to China. His reports on what he found there would transform Western...

Warship Builders is the first scholarly study of the U.S. naval shipbuilding industry from the early 1920s to the end of World War II, when America...

Outstanding Title by Choice MagazineOn the banks of the Pacific Northwests greatest river lies the Hanford nuclear reservation, an industrial site ...

Poetry & Strikes examines shifting representations of strike action in the work of six British poets from the 1970s to the present day. It cons...

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...

Explains the astonishing growth of Middlesbrough from a hamlet to a very substantial town in the space of a few decades in the middle of the ninete...

In 1919, the doors of Youngstown's Butler Institute of American Art were opened for the first time. Dubbed the lighthouse of culture, both the b...

An account of modernization and technological innovation in nineteenth-century Brazil that provides a distinctly Brazilian perspective. Existing sc...

During the twentieth century, the Soviet Union turned the Kola Peninsula in the northwest corner of the country into one of the most populated, ind...

In this incisive analysis of one of the most spectacular economic breakthroughs in the Deng era, Jean C. Oi shows how and why Chinese rural-based i...

A comprehensive study of the occupational health of employed children within the broader context of social, industrial and environmental change bet...

William Edmundson examines the spectacular life story of 'Colonel' John Thomas North, also known as 'The Nitrate King,' a mechanic in Leeds who bec...

This stunning book is a glorious celebration of all things train and track!Packed with stunning photography, The Train Book catalogues the developm...

Combining historical, social and regulative analysis, this book builds a compelling critique of frontier thinking as it continues to form our assum...

Tracking the movement of finance capital toward far-flung investment frontiers, Noam Maggor reconceives the emergence of modern capitalism in the U...

In The Industrial Turn in World History, Peter N. Stearns presents a concise yet far reaching overview of the worldwide shift from agricultural soc...

Knighted in 1998 for services to the Town and Country Planning Association, and in 2003 named by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as a Pioneer in the...

Europe's infrastructure both united and divided peoples and places via economic systems, crises, and wars. Some used transport, communication, and...

When we think about Victorian factories, 'Dark Satanic Mills' might spring to mind - images of blackened buildings and exhausted, exploited workers...

American economic history has traditionally been told as a narrative of industrialization and affluence collapsing into globalization and industria...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminoso...

Text in German. The phase of the so-called Second Industrialization at the turn of the century was characterized in Germany and France by new forms...

Eric Davis challenges classic theories of dependency and imperialism and explains the history of the Bank Misr by interrelating world market forces...

Sold as a multi-volume set the individual volumes are also available for purchase. This is the complete collection of six paperback volumes on the...

In Europe, coal was by far the most important source of energy from the beginning of industrialisation until well after the Second World War. It wa...

Churchill's American Arsenal reveals how the technology, know-how, and production power behind the victorious Allied partnership during World War I...

Completed in 1938, the Trans-Iranian Railway connected Tehran to Iran's two major bodies of water: the Caspian Sea in the north and the Persian Gul...

In this collection, the essays examine the critical role that judgments about noise and sound played in framing the meaning of civility in British ...

Between 1815 and 1870, when European industrialisation was in its infancy and Britain enjoyed a technological lead, thousands of British workers em...

The emergence, dominance, and alarmingly rapid retreat of modernist industrial capitalism on Cape Breton Island during the long twentieth century o...