Industrialisation & Industrial History
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The Rise of a Victorian Ironopolis: Middlesbrough and Regional Industrialization
Minoru YasumotoCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99Explains 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...
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Islam Instrumentalized: Religion and Politics in Historical Perspective
Jean-Philippe PlatteauCurrent price €98.09Original price €108.99In this book, economist Jean-Philippe Platteau addresses the question: does Islam, the religion of Muslims, bear some responsibility for a lack of ...
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Open Fields to Enclosure: The Parliamentary Enclosure of Burwell
William FranklinCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Current price €29.25Original price €32.50Save 10% -
First Citizen: The Industrious Life of Joseph G. Butler, Jr.
Joseph LambertCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50In 1919, the doors of Youngstown's Butler Institute of American Art were opened for the first time. Dubbed the lighthouse of culture, both the b...
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Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels: Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Teresa CribelliCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99An account of modernization and technological innovation in nineteenth-century Brazil that provides a distinctly Brazilian perspective. Existing sc...
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The Nature of Soviet Power: An Arctic Environmental History
Andy BrunoCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99During the twentieth century, the Soviet Union turned the Kola Peninsula in the northwest corner of the country into one of the most populated, ind...
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Rural China Takes Off: Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform
Jean C. OiCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50In this incisive analysis of one of the most spectacular economic breakthroughs in the Deng era, Jean C. Oi shows how and why Chinese rural-based i...
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Child Workers and Industrial Health in Britain, 1780-1850
Peter KirbyCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99A comprehensive study of the occupational health of employed children within the broader context of social, industrial and environmental change bet...
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The Nitrate King: A Biography of Colonel John Thomas North
W. EdmundsonCurrent price €47.59Original price €55.99William Edmundson examines the spectacular life story of 'Colonel' John Thomas North, also known as 'The Nitrate King,' a mechanic in Leeds who bec...
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The Train Book: The Definitive Visual History
DKCurrent price €33.99Original price €39.99This stunning book is a glorious celebration of all things train and track!Packed with stunning photography, The Train Book catalogues the developm...
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Frontier Thinking and Human-Nature Relations: We Were Never Western
E. C. H. KeskitaloCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99Combining historical, social and regulative analysis, this book builds a compelling critique of frontier thinking as it continues to form our assum...
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Ingenious Machinists: Two Inventive Lives from the American Industrial Revolution
Anthony J. ConnorsCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99Current price €21.59Original price €23.99Save 10% -
History''s Most Dangerous Jobs: Navvies
Anthony BurtonCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50This is the story of the men who built Britains canals and railways not the engineers and the administrators but the ones who provided the brawn a...
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Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in Americas First Gilded Age
Noam MaggorCurrent price €41.39Original price €45.99Tracking the movement of finance capital toward far-flung investment frontiers, Noam Maggor reconceives the emergence of modern capitalism in the U...
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North and South (Collins Classics)
Elizabeth GaskellCurrent price €5.94Original price €6.99HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horiz...
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Chatham Dockyard: The Rise and Fall of a Military Industrial Complex
Philip MacDougallCurrent price €20.39Original price €23.99Founded in 1570, Chatham Dockyard quickly became one of the most important naval yards for the repair and building of warships, maintaining a pre-e...
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Down Amongst the Black Gang: The World and Workplace of RMS Titanic''s Stokers
Richard P. de KerbrechCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Down in the fiery belly of the luxury liners of the Titanic era, a world away from the first-class dining rooms and sedate tours of the deck, toile...
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Fritos® Pie Volume 24: Stories, Recipes, and More
Davia NelsonCurrent price €26.34Original price €30.99Current price €26.34Original price €30.99Save 15% -
The Iron Men: The Workers Who Created the New Iron Age
Anthony BurtonCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99The eighteenth century saw the second Iron Age. Practically everything was made of iron: the machines of the Industrial Revolution; bridges and the...
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Brunel: pocket GIANTS
Christopher SeamanCurrent price €10.19Original price €11.99In a BBC poll in 2002, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was voted the second-greatest Briton of all time, only eclipsed by Churchill.It's often claimed that...
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Pleasure Boating on the Thames: A History of Salter Bros, 1858-Present Day
Simon WenhamCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99The River Thames above London underwent a dramatic transformation during the Victorian period, from a great commercial highway into a vast conduit ...
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The Industrial Turn in World History
Nicholas C. ZakasCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99In The Industrial Turn in World History, Peter N. Stearns presents a concise yet far reaching overview of the worldwide shift from agricultural soc...
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The Planning Imagination: Peter Hall and the Study of Urban and Regional Planning
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €60.29Original price €66.99Knighted in 1998 for services to the Town and Country Planning Association, and in 2003 named by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as a Pioneer in the...
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