Industrialisation & Industrial History

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 ...