Industrialisation & Industrial History
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Mining in Cornwall and Devon: Mines and Men
Alasdair NeillCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99Mining in Cornwall and Devon is an economic history of mines, mineral ownership, and mine management in the South West of England. The work brings...
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Happy Apocalypse: A History of Technological Risk
Jean-Baptiste FressozCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50Being 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...
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Abandoned Train Stations
David RossCurrent price €22.09Original price €25.99Mysterious ghost stations forgotten beneath the cities of Paris and London; desolate grand rail hubs in the Pyrenean mountains; metro stations in C...
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A Pipeline Runs Through It: The Story of Oil from Ancient Times to the First World War
Keith FisherCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99'Fascinating revelations' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'An immensely valuable guide to a great and terrible industry' The Economist 'The book I have l...
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The City of Rainbows: A Colourful History of Prince Rupert
Blair MirauCurrent price €20.69Original price €22.99Current price €20.69Original price €22.99Save 10% -
UNITE History Volume 4 (1960-1974): The Transport and General Workers'' Union (TGWU): ''The Great Tradition of Independent Working Class Power''
John FosterCurrent price €10.79Original price €11.99Sold 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...
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Made in Manchester: A peoples history of the city that shaped the modern world
Brian GroomCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made it What Manchester thi...
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The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933
Frances Fox PivenCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50From the Roaring Twenties through to the Great Depression, Irving Bernstein presents a comprehensive history of the American workforce. The Lean Ye...
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The Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker, 1933-1941
Frances Fox PivenCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99A groundbreaking moment in the discourse of the labour movement and a classic text which revolutionised social history. Bernstein uncovers a period...
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The Slow Death of British Industry: A Sixty-Year Suicide 1952-2012
Nicholas ComfortCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99When Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne in 1952, the talk was of a New Elizabethan Age of British economic and technological achievement founded...
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Building for Oil: Daqing and the Formation of the Chinese Socialist State
Li HouCurrent price €20.69Original price €22.99Building 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...
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Backbone of the Nation: Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85
Robert GildeaCurrent price €16.19Original price €17.99A 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 ...
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Literature for the People: How The Pioneering Macmillan Brothers Built a Publishing Powerhouse
Sarah HarknessCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50From an impoverished childhood in the Scottish highlands to Victorian London, this is the inspiring story of two brothers Daniel and Alexander Mac...
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England''s Asian Renaissance
University of Delaware PressCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99England's Asian Renaissance explores how Asian knowledges, narratives, and customs inflected early modern English literature. Just as Asian imports...
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Kent''s Industrial Heritage
James PrestonCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Kent is thought of as the Garden of England and has been described as a county of hops, apples and cherries. This may be true of a large part of th...
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Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women''s Food Work
Diana GarvinCurrent price €56.69Original price €62.99Feeding Fascism explores how women negotiated the politics of Italy's Fascist regime in their daily lives and how they fed their families through a...
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Bradshaws Handbook
George BradshawCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50A facsimile edition of Bradshaw's Handbook of 1863, the book that inspired the BBC television series 'Great British Railway Journeys'. When Michae...
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Abandoned Industrial Places: Factories, laboratories, mills and mines that the world left behind
David RossCurrent price €22.09Original price €25.99The decaying remnants of obselete industries and defunct commerce whether coal mines, shipyards, factories, shopping centres, power plants, wareho...
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Abandoned London: Discover the hidden secrets of the city in photographs
Katie WignallCurrent price €22.09Original price €25.99It seems bizarre that in a place as crowded, noisy and expensive as London there are still wasted unused spaces. The relentless drive for regenerat...
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Working the London Underground: From 1863 to 2013
Ben PedrocheCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Used extensively and somewhat taken for granted by millions of commuters and tourists every day, the London Underground has long been a part of our...
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Working for Victory: A Diary of Life in a Second World War Factory
Sue BruleyCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99During the Second World War over 1.5 million of women found themselves thrust into a male working world, having to learn new skills within a matter...
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The Rise and Fall of British Shipbuilding
Anthony BurtonCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99From modest beginnings, Britain rose throughout the nineteenth century to become the greatest shipbuilding nation in the world, yet by the end of t...
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