Primary Industries

Which colliery was known as the Fair Lady? And where was the deepest mine shaft? These are just two of the many questions answered in this history ...

As the ecosystem-based trend in fisheries management continues to be implemented worldwide, a thorough background of this new management approach a...

In this landmark work of photo-journalism, activist and photographer David Bacon documents the experiences of some of the hardest-working and most ...

In the United Kingdom surface coal mining began in 1942 in response to a national shortage of deep-mined coal. By the 1980s, when Dave Wootton bega...

Coal was the very bedrock on which the town of Whitehaven was built, the trade in coal with Dublin starting after the Dissolution of the Monasterie...

An agricultural revolution is sweeping the land. Appreciation for high-quality food, often locally grown, an awareness of the fragility of our farm...

How relevant are the classic theories of agrarian change in the contemporary context? This volume explores this question by focusing upon the defin...

Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects examines the stories of ordinary people to explore the internal workings of colonial rule. Chinese, Indians, ...

Government management of fisheries has been little short of disastrous. In many regions, valuable fish stocks have collapsed as a result of overfis...

The book begins with a history of the industrial development of the Tondu Valleys, including the succession of great industrialists who led the way...

Cornwall is acknowledged internationally as the home of hard-rock mining and the cradle of the steam engine. The rich mineral deposits with which t...

The past few decades have witnessed remarkable growth in the application of passive seismic monitoring to address a range of problems in geoscience...

On 3 April 2016 the Queensland government announced that it had granted coal leases to Adani. They are in Banjo Paterson country, where 'Waltzing M...

Shaft sinking for the extraction of minerals has taken place for centuries, and for much of this time, coal mining was carried out in the North Eas...

Although most mining companies utilise systems for slope monitoring, experience indicates that mining operations continue to be surprised by the oc...

An illustrated introduction to how British industries, supported by thousands of newly recruited women, strove to meet the nations wartime need for...

Examines the silicosis crisis in the South African mining industry, and reveals how the rate of, often fatal, tuberculosis among black migrant mine...

The exploiting of stone in Cumbria dates back to the Neolithic period when volcanic rock from the high Lakeland fells was worked to make hand axes....

The success of the Durham Coalfield and its important role in the Industrial Revolution is attributed to men of influence who owned the land and th...

It was a red-tinted volcanic dome atop one of the planet's harshest and least accessible perches - the High Andes - but in its time was the object ...