Industrialisation & industrial history books

2392 books were found.

Transforming the Countryside: The Electrification of Rural Britain

Transforming the Countryside: The Electrification of...

Author: Paul Brassley (University of Exeter, UK) ,  Jeremy Burchardt
ISBN: 9781032402291
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This edited collection of essays shows how new electrical technology changed rural life in Britain in the twentieth...  Read More >>

The Everyday Experiences of Reconstruction and Regeneration: From Vision to Reality in Birmingham and Coventry

The Everyday Experiences of Reconstruction and Regeneration:...

Author: David Adams ,  Peter Larkham
ISBN: 9781032401584
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Set within a wider British and international context of post-war reconstruction, The Everyday Experiences of Reconstruction...  Read More >>

The Last American Newspaper: An Institution in Peril, Through the Eyes of a Small-Town Editor

The Last American Newspaper: An Institution in Peril,...

Author: Ken Tingley
ISBN: 9781476688268
Format: Paperback
$64.90

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The Proto-Industrial Architecture of the Veneto: in the Age of Palladio

The Proto-Industrial Architecture of the Veneto: in...

Author: Deborah Howard
ISBN: 9788833671819
Format: Paperback
$69.99

An exploration of the hitherto neglected architectural legacy of the boom in manufacturing in the Veneto in the...  Read More >>

When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s

When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis...

Author: Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
ISBN: 9780700633555
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Explores the Farm Crisis of the 1980s from the perspective of the two-thirds of the state’s agricultural population...  Read More >>

Utilities and Industrial History

Utilities and Industrial History

Author: John F. Wilson (Northumbria University, UK) ,  Steven Toms (University of Leeds, UK)
ISBN: 9781032363509
Format: Hardback
$105.00

This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by expert series editors and contextualised by...  Read More >>

Lincolnshire Industrial Heritage

Lincolnshire Industrial Heritage

Author: Colin Tyson
ISBN: 9781445688466
Format: Paperback
$41.37

Documenting the county's fascinating industrial history. Which is nowadays associated with food production as the...  Read More >>

Abandoned Train Stations

Abandoned Train Stations

Author: David Ross
ISBN: 9781838861995
Format: Hardback
$51.72

Illustrated with more than 200 photographs, Abandoned Train Stations provides a fascinating pictorial journey through...  Read More >>

A Pipeline Runs Through It: The Story of Oil from Ancient Times to the First World War

A Pipeline Runs Through It: The Story of Oil from Ancient...

Author: Keith Fisher
ISBN: 9780241558225
Format: Hardback
$75.00

The origin story of our modern oil age A Pipeline Runs Through It is a fresh, comprehensive in-depth look at the...  Read More >>

Popular New Orleans: The Crescent City in Periodicals, Theme Parks, and Opera, 1875–2015

Popular New Orleans: The Crescent City in Periodicals,...

Author: Florian Freitag (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
ISBN: 9780367561086
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Popular New Orleans traces the evolution of popular depictions of the Crescent City from 19th-century local-color...  Read More >>

Film Noir and Los Angeles: Urban History and the Dark Imaginary

Film Noir and Los Angeles: Urban History and the Dark...

Author: Sean W. Maher
ISBN: 9780367547998
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This book combines urban theory with film studies and cultural theory to explore how twentieth century Los Angeles...  Read More >>

Urbanization in India During the British Period (1857–1947)

Urbanization in India During the British Period (1857–1947)...

Author: Dipsikha Sahoo
ISBN: 9780367369453
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This study offers a macro picture of the urban process under the British administration, showing how colonial capitalism...  Read More >>

Controversial Heritage and Divided Memories from the Nineteenth Through the Twentieth Centuries: Multi-Ethnic Cities in the Mediterranean World, Volume 2

Controversial Heritage and Divided Memories from the...

Author: Marco Folin (University of Genoa, Italy) ,  Heleni Porfyriou (CNR - ICVBC, Italy)
ISBN: 9780367545703
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Focusing on heritage and the uses of the past in the plural ethnic and cosmopolitan environment of Mediterranean...  Read More >>

Migrants and the Making of the Urban-Maritime World: Agency and Mobility in Port Cities, c. 1570–1940

Migrants and the Making of the Urban-Maritime World:...

Author: Christina Reimann (Stockholm University, Sweden) ,  Martin Öhman
ISBN: 9780367543624
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Throughout the ages of sail and steam, migrants made vital contributions to the construction of the urban-maritime...  Read More >>

Imaginary Athens: Urban Space and Memory in Berlin, Tokyo, and Seoul

Imaginary Athens: Urban Space and Memory in Berlin,...

Author: Jin-Sung Chun (Busan National University of Education, Republic of Korea) ,  Youngjae Josephine Bae
ISBN: 9780367639952
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book examines architecture and urban planning in Berlin, Tokyo, and Seoul as the capitals underwent a transnational...  Read More >>

Science in the Metropolis: Vienna in Transnational Context, 1848–1918

Science in the Metropolis: Vienna in Transnational Context,...

Author: Mitchell G. Ash (Universität Wien, Austria)
ISBN: 9780367612597
Format: Paperback
$81.99

"This book presents new research on ""thick spaces"" of scientific research and processes of interurban and transnational...  Read More >>

Power of Flour: A Photographic History of Milling in Australia

Power of Flour: A Photographic History of Milling in...

Author: Paul Ashton ,  Jess Jennings
ISBN: 9781925043730
Format: Hardback
$59.95

As white settlement spread along railways and through the agricultural areas of Australia, almost every important...  Read More >>

Branded: Australian Flour Bag Labels Between the Wars

Branded: Australian Flour Bag Labels Between the Wars...

Author: Paul Ashton ,  Jess Jennings
ISBN: 9781925043723
Format: Hardback
$59.95

Colourful brands and packaging erupted in the 1920s and 30s, when tariffs killed flour exports to Europe. Australian...  Read More >>

Precious Threads and Precarious Lives: Histories of Shawl and Silk Industries of Kashmir, 1846–1950

Precious Threads and Precarious Lives: Histories of...

Author: Amit Kumar
ISBN: 9780367635046
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book studies the hitherto unexplored history of the shawl and silk industries of Kashmir, India.  Read More >>

The City and the Railway in the World from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

The City and the Railway in the World from the Nineteenth...

Author: Ralf Roth ,  Paul Van Heesvelde
ISBN: 9781472449610
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume explores the relationship between cities and railways over three centuries. Despite their nearly 200-year...  Read More >>

UNITE History Volume 2 (1932-1945): The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU): 'No turning back', the road to war and welfare

UNITE History Volume 2 (1932-1945): The Transport and...

Author: Roger Seifert
ISBN: 9781802076981
Format: Paperback
$18.09

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Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870-1919

Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking...

Author: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9781316517031
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Drawing on German, English, Japanese and Chinese primary sources, Ghassan Moazzin explores how foreign banks financially...  Read More >>

An East Asian Route of Industrialization? The Case of Japan, 1868-1937

An East Asian Route of Industrialization? The Case of...

Author: Peer Vries
ISBN: 9789004518735
Format: Hardback
$472.56

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