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...