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...

This sixth volume in the European Festival Studies series stems from a joint conference (Venice, 2013) between the Society for European Festivals R...

First emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, architectural reconstruction has increasingly become an instrument to visually revive a l...

This book discusses the transformation of labour movements and trade unionism in post-liberalised India. It looks at emerging collectivism, both in...

Florence in the Early Modern World offers new perspectives on this important city by exploring the broader global context of the fifteenth and sixt...

Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers examines the emergence of a new class of industrial entrepreneur and the world it confronted and shaped. Histor...

This is the first book to describe the early English woollens industry and its dominance of the trade in quality cloth across Europe by the mid-six...

Medium-Sized Cities in the Age of Globalisation provides a brand-new perspective on academic discussions of globalisation through exploring urban d...

This book argues that long-distance trade in luxury items such as diamonds, gold, cinnamon, scented woods, ivory and pearls, all of which require ...

Globalisation has created many opportunities for economic development, but it is also associated with rising income inequality and poverty. Interna...

This is the story of Cuban tobacco, whose agricultural and industrial development was fashioned as deftly as a Havana cigar around overseas trading...

This volume examines the pivotal role of movement, visibility, and experience within Pompeian houses as a major factor determining house form; the ...

This title was first published in 2002: Since the invention of printing in the mid-fifteenth century the production, distribution and consumption o...

Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape brings together various disciplinary perspectives and diverse theories on arts dialecti...

The Challenge of Labour (1980) explains the changing forms of labours relationship with British society during the period of 1850 to 1930 as the e...

Taking the form of two companion volumes, Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland represents the first major investigation into the administra...

This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by expert series editors and contextualised by new analysis from each author on ho...

Charles Baudelaires flâneur, as described in his 1863 essay The Painter of Modern Life, remains central to understandings of gender, space, and the...

Early modern Naples has been characterized as a marginal, wild and exotic place on the fringes of the European world, and as such an appropriate ta...

This interesting and informative book shows how different groups of urban residents with different social, economic, and political power cope with ...

This book is about the role played by architects, engineers and planners in transforming France during the three post-war decades of growing prospe...

Bengals traditional industries, once celebrated worldwide, largely decayed under the backwash effects of the British Industrial Revolution in the f...

Adopting Argentinas popular uprisings against neoliberalism including the 2001-02 rebellion and subsequent mass protests as a case study, The Mobil...

Popular belief holds that throwing the contents of a chamber pot into the street was a common occurrence during the early modern period. This book ...

Cities the world over and in particular developing countries suffer from uneven development and inequality. This is often coupled with the view tha...