Industrialisation & Industrial History

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...

This book is concerned with the eighteenth-century typographer, printer, industrialist and Enlightenment figure, John Baskerville (1707-75). Basker...

This collaborative collection considers the packaging, presentation and consumption of medieval manuscripts and early printed books in Europe 13501...

This book vividly reconstructs the social world of upper middle-class Belfast during the time of the citys greatest growth, between the 1830s and t...

The contributors to this collection of seven essays (plus an editor's introduction and a comparative afterword) have framed debates about the const...

Historical Studies in Industrial Relations was established in 1996 by the Centre for Industrial Relations, Keele University, to provide an outlet f...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Fellow Travellers examines the shi...

Historical Studies in Industrial Relations was established in 1996 by the Centre for Industrial Relations, Keele University, to provide an outlet f...

In Fighting Deindustrialisation, Andy Clark outlines and examines one of the most significant and under-researched periods in modern Scottish labou...

Thirteen original chapters by major scholars examine different aspects of the ICU's record in the 1920s and 1930s, assessing its achievements and i...

Bringing together multidisciplinary scholars from the growing discipline of food studies, Food Mobilities examines food provisioning and the food c...

*Longlisted for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History, 2022*A spectacular biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitionist...

Home Fires tells the fascinating story of how changes in home heating over the nineteenth century spurred the growth of networks that helped remake...

Telegraphy in the nineteenth century approximated the internet in our own day. Historian and electrical engineer David Hochfelder offers readers a ...

Americans have been riding bikes for more than a century now. So why are most American cities still so ill-prepared to handle cyclists? James Longh...

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...