Industrialisation & industrial history books

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Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work

Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded...

Author: Jason Resnikoff
ISBN: 9780252086298
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Labor's End traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-ranging implications...  Read More >>

Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work

Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded...

Author: Jason Resnikoff
ISBN: 9780252044250
Format: Hardback
$239.00

Labor's End traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-ranging implications...  Read More >>

The World's Last Steam Locomotives in Industry: The 20th Century

The World's Last Steam Locomotives in Industry: The...

Author: Gordon Edgar
ISBN: 9781445685090
Format: Paperback
$51.72

A stunning collection of rare photographs documenting the last years of industrial steam around the world.  Read More >>

The Soho Manufactory, Mint and Foundry, West Midlands: Where Boulton, Watt and Murdoch Made History

The Soho Manufactory, Mint and Foundry, West Midlands:...

Author: George Demidowicz
ISBN: 9781800349285
Format: Hardback
$113.85

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The Industry of Evangelism: Printing for the Reformation in Martin Luther’s Wittenberg

The Industry of Evangelism: Printing for the Reformation...

Author: Drew B. Thomas
ISBN: 9789004462403
Format: Hardback
$396.00

This monograph examines the rise of the Wittenberg printing industry and analyses how it overtook the Empire’s leading...  Read More >>

The Changing Face of Britain's Railways 1938-1953: The Railway Companies Bow Out

The Changing Face of Britain's Railways 1938-1953: The...

Author: Robert Hendry
ISBN: 9781905414031
Format: Hardback
$64.56

Using contemporary records and exploring developments on British Railways, this account covers the period from 1938...  Read More >>

Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia

Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and...

Author: Gregg Mitman
ISBN: 9781620973776
Format: Hardback
$47.99

"""An ambitious and shocking expose�e s of America's hien empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation,...  Read More >>

Making Urban Theory: Learning and Unlearning through Southern Cities

Making Urban Theory: Learning and Unlearning through...

Author: Mary Lawhon ,  Lene Le Roux
ISBN: 9781032238852
Format: Paperback
$83.99

""" This book facilitates more careful engagement with the production, politics and geography of knowledge as scholars...  Read More >>

Senses of the Empire: Multisensory Approaches to Roman Culture

Senses of the Empire: Multisensory Approaches to Roman...

Author: Eleanor Betts
ISBN: 9781032242255
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Through a series of multisensory case studies centred on people, places, buildings and artefacts, and on specific...  Read More >>

New Approaches to Governance and Rule in Urban Europe Since 1500

New Approaches to Governance and Rule in Urban Europe...

Author: Simon Gunn (University of Leicester, UK) ,  Tom Hulme
ISBN: 9781032237244
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This exciting collection of essays explores new ways of understanding politics and governance in Europe’s cities...  Read More >>

Wires That Bind – Nation, Region, and Technology in the Southwestern United States, 1854–1920

Wires That Bind – Nation, Region, and Technology in...

Author: Torsten Kathke
ISBN: 9783837637908
Format: Paperback
$74.95

Telegraphy and railroads changed power relations throughout the world in the nineteenth century. Torsten Kathke...  Read More >>

Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding

Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped...

Author: Hannah Farber
ISBN: 9781469663630
Format: Hardback
$50.00

Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape...  Read More >>

Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace

Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace

Author: Kristin M.S. Bezio (University of Richmond, USA) ,  Scott Oldenburg (Tulane University, USA)
ISBN: 9780367502317
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book explores the intersection between geographic, material, and ideological marketplaces through the lens...  Read More >>

Gray Gold: Lead Mining and Its Impact on the Natural and Cultural Environment, 1700-1840

Gray Gold: Lead Mining and Its Impact on the Natural...

Author: Mark Chambers
ISBN: 9781621906988
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Broadens understandings of early colonial and Native American history by turning attention to the ways that mining...  Read More >>

Sam Coverly's Journal with Historical Notes: Traveling and Trading in the Early Republic

Sam Coverly's Journal with Historical Notes: Traveling...

Author: John A. Albertini
ISBN: 9781527576032
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Sam Coverly was an entrepreneur and an adventurous traveler. His trading took him to China and England, to Montreal...  Read More >>

England's Asian Renaissance

England's Asian Renaissance

Author: Su Fang Ng ,  Carmen Nocentelli
ISBN: 9781644532409
Format: Paperback
$97.55

Questioning long-standing dichotomies between East and West and embracing a capacious understanding of translatio...  Read More >>

England's Asian Renaissance

England's Asian Renaissance

Author: Su Fang Ng ,  Carmen Nocentelli
ISBN: 9781644532416
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Questioning long-standing dichotomies between East and West and embracing a capacious understanding of translatio...  Read More >>

Two Centuries of Maine Shipbuilding

Two Centuries of Maine Shipbuilding

Author: Nathan Lipfert
ISBN: 9781608936816
Format: Hardback
$121.00

Covering the entire coast, this rich visual history focuses on the industry and the vessels produced, highlighting...  Read More >>

The Built Environment Transformed: Textile Lancashire during the Industrial Revolution

The Built Environment Transformed: Textile Lancashire...

Author: Geoffrey Timmins
ISBN: 9781800856530
Format: Hardback
$126.79

By making comparisons with developments occurring at similar types of site elsewhere in Britain, as well as in Europe...  Read More >>

Cathedrals of Steam: How London's Great Stations Were Built - And How They Transformed the City

Cathedrals of Steam: How London's Great Stations Were...

Author: Christian Wolmar
ISBN: 9781786499226
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The epic story of London's major railway stations, by Britain's bestselling transport historian.  Read More >>

Energy in the Americas: Critical Reflections on Energy and History

Energy in the Americas: Critical Reflections on Energy...

Author: Amelia Kiddle
ISBN: 9781552389393
Format: Paperback
$100.78

Brings the diverse energy histories of North and South American nations into dialogue with one another, presenting...  Read More >>

Company Suburbs: Architecture, Power, and the Transformation of Michigan's Mining Frontier

Company Suburbs: Architecture, Power, and the Transformation...

Author: Sarah Fayen Scarlett
ISBN: 9781621906773
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Contrasts two types of neighbourhoods that transformed Michigan's mining frontier between 1875 and 1920: paternalistic...  Read More >>

Land of Milk and Money: The Creation of the Southern Dairy Industry

Land of Milk and Money: The Creation of the Southern...

Author: Alan I. Marcus
ISBN: 9780807176054
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Examines the establishment of the dairy industry in the United States South during the 1920s. Alan Marcus suggests...  Read More >>

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