Industrialisation & Industrial History

Charts the emergence and development of capitalism across the world from a variety of perspectives, providing a deep understanding of how capitalis...

Governance and Public Space in the Australian City is a rich and evocative examination of the production and use of public spaces in Australian cit...

This book explores the various ways imperial rule constituted and shaped the cities of Eastern Europe until World War I in the Tsarist, Habsburg, a...

This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960sfrom minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-spe...

Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 presents new perspectives on the role music played in the physical, cultura...

From the multi-million copy bestselling author of Demon Copperhead: a true story of female-led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1...

The Ottoman Empire went through rapid economic and social development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as it approached its en...

In this book Eileen Wallace focuses on the lives of working children in nineteenth-century Hertfordshire employed in agriculture, straw-plaiting, s...

This book explores how workers moved and were moved, why they moved, and how they were kept from moving. Combining global labour history with mobil...

Between working men and women (which may include free wage earners, chattel slaves, indentured labourers, sharecroppers, domestic servants, and man...

The volume scrutinizes the fundamentally uneven character of industrial production and working class formation by bringing together anthropologists...

From the middle of the nineteenth century, most European cities experienced a period of unrivalled growth and development that forever changed not ...

The Roman empire afforded a kaleidoscope of sensations. Through a series of multisensory case studies centred on people, places, buildings and arte...

Is planning for America anathema to the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness? Is it true, as ideologues like Friedrich Von Hayek, Milton Friedman...

In The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age, Rosanne Currarino traces the struggle to define the nature of democratic li...

Written by the leading expert in UK petroleum economics, this study provides a new, unique, in-depth analysis of the development of British policie...

The Shropshire town of Shrewsbury grew first as a major wool trading centre. Later this was replaced by a trade in woven Welsh cloth, which continu...

First published in 1998, this book reprints eight articles from The London Journal, covering the history of London from the middle ages to the twen...

In recent decades there has been increasing historical interest in various aspects of local urban politics, resulting in a much better understandin...