Industrialisation & Industrial History

'ONE OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING, ORIGINAL INTELLECTUALS OF HIS GENERATION', Stuart Hall, author of The Hard Road to RenewalThe work of the pioneering ...

By the end of the notorious 1984/85 miners strike many wanted to forget their painful experiences. Many years on people are ready to look back and ...

Examines how primary social ties fueled economic growthSouth Korea's rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaebl (family-owne...

Examines how primary social ties fueled economic growthSouth Korea's rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaebl (family-owne...

** A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK **'Fascinating . . . The history of the world through the eye of a needle . . . I recommend this book to anyone' THE ...

Winner of the 2013 New York Book Show Award in Scholarly/Professional Book Design From Ernest and Julio Gallo to Francis Ford Coppola, Italians hav...

Focusing on urban development and the influence of urbanization on industrialization, this volume reflects a radical rethinking of the traditional ...

This volume explores the possibilities of studying embodied subjects in the past through the sources and approaches of archaeology, history and mat...

By the close of the eighteenth century, learning to read and write became closely associated with learning about the material world, and a vast ar...

The word was that you could earn $17,000 a month in the Bakken Oilfield of North Dakota. So they flooded in: the profiteers, deadbeats, ex-cons, dr...

No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday - and what happened ...

In this ambitious new interdisciplinary study, Useche proposes the metaphor of the social foundry to parse how industrialization informed and shape...

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

Focusing on urban development and the influence of urbanization on industrialization, this volume reflects a radical rethinking of the traditional ...

An innovative study of labor relations, particularly the interactions of recruitment agents and migrant workers, in the mining concessions of Wassa...

Letters between a colliery manager and his employer provide valuable evidence for the growth and development of the coal trade in north-east Englan...

A detailed study of Ipswich at a time of great growth and prosperity, highlighting the activities of its industries, merchants and craftsmen. Ipsw...

An engagingly written account of textile engineering in its key northern centres, rich with historical narrative and analysis. The engineers who b...

Building on the theory of the demographic transition, Michael S. Teitelbaum assesses the dramatic decline in British fertility from 1841 to 1931 in...

Now widely recognized as a novelist and essayist, working-class writer Ethel Carnie Holdsworth first published as a poet. The three books collected...

England's Asian Renaissance explores how Asian knowledges, narratives, and customs inflected early modern English literature. Just as Asian imports...

This selection of papers by major scholars introduces students to the history of the book in the West from late Antiquity to the publication of the...

This collection of published papers on the development of the publishing cycle from author to reader includes work by many of the leading authoriti...

Beginning with one of the crucial technological breakthroughs of Western history - the development of moveable type by Johann Gutenberg - The Histo...

George Elliot was a self-made Victorian entrepreneur who rose from humble beginnings as a pit boy in Englands north-east to become one of the bigge...

From Hope to Betrayal transports you to Rishton, a small Lancashire cotton town, in the years between the Great Wars. Inspired by true events, the ...

The Kahans from Baku is the saga of a Russian Jewish family. Their story provides an insight into the history of Jews in the Imperial Russian econo...

The Kahans from Baku is the saga of a Russian Jewish family. Their story provides an insight into the history of Jews in the Imperial Russian econo...

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

Just days into the miners' strike of 1984-1985, a few women in coalfield communities around Britain began to meet to consider how they could suppor...