Industrialisation & industrial history books

2392 books were found.

Vergleichen in der Konkurrenz: Transnationale Vergleichspraktiken der deutschen und der US-amerikanischen Eisen- und Stahlindustrie (1870–1940)

Vergleichen in der Konkurrenz: Transnationale Vergleichspraktiken...

Author: Torben Möbius ,  Prof. Dr. Michael E. Geyer
ISBN: 9783525302262
Format: Hardback
$199.21

Transnationale Vergleichspraktiken der deutschen und der US-amerikanischen Eisen- und Stahlindustrie.  Read More >>

Technological Revolutions and the Periphery: Understanding Global Development Through Regional Lenses

Technological Revolutions and the Periphery: Understanding...

Author: Eduardo da Motta e Albuquerque
ISBN: 9783031434358
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book evaluates the uneven propagation of technological revolutions, investigating the roots of this phenomenon...  Read More >>

UNITE History Volume 6 (1992-2010): The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU): Unity for a New Era

UNITE History Volume 6 (1992-2010): The Transport and...

Author: Adrian Weir
ISBN: 9781802074864
Format: Paperback
$18.09

The last two decades of the T&G, the essential left of centre union in Britain, were turbulent years. After a decade...  Read More >>

Britain’s Steam Locomotives: 100 of the Best, from Penydarren to Tornado

Britain’s Steam Locomotives: 100 of the Best, from Penydarren...

Author: Julian Holland
ISBN: 9780008622794
Format: Hardback
$69.99

It is more than 200 years since the world’s first steam railway locomotive hauled its initial load of iron ore and...  Read More >>

Networks of Improvement: Literature, Bodies, and Machines in the Industrial Revolution

Networks of Improvement: Literature, Bodies, and Machines...

Author: Professor Jon Mee
ISBN: 9780226828381
Format: Paperback
$57.95

A new literary-cultural history of the Industrial Revolution in Britain from the late-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth...  Read More >>

Networks of Improvement: Literature, Bodies, and Machines in the Industrial Revolution

Networks of Improvement: Literature, Bodies, and Machines...

Author: Professor Jon Mee
ISBN: 9780226828374
Format: Hardback
$173.95

A new literary-cultural history of the Industrial Revolution in Britain from the late-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth...  Read More >>

Pre-modern Towns at the Times of Catastrophes: East Central Europe in a Comparative Perspective

Pre-modern Towns at the Times of Catastrophes: East...

Author: Michaela Antonín Malaníková ,  Beata Możejko
ISBN: 9781032347370
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Covering areas in today’s Ukraine, Poland, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and Slovakia, this book studies the impact...  Read More >>

Pre-modern Towns at the Times of Catastrophes: East Central Europe in a Comparative Perspective

Pre-modern Towns at the Times of Catastrophes: East...

Author: Michaela Antonín Malaníková ,  Beata Możejko
ISBN: 9781032347363
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Covering areas in today’s Ukraine, Poland, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and Slovakia, this book studies the impact...  Read More >>

Neighbours of Passage: A Microhistory of Migrants in a Paris Tenement, 1882–1932

Neighbours of Passage: A Microhistory of Migrants in...

Author: Fabrice Langrognet
ISBN: 9781032196046
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The book is a sociocultural microhistory of migrants. From the 1880s to the 1930s, it traces the lives of the occupants...  Read More >>

Governance and Public Space in the Australian City: Negotiating Public Order in Brisbane, 1875-1914

Governance and Public Space in the Australian City:...

Author: Anna Temby (University of Queensland, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032484945
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Governance and Public Space in the Australian City is a rich and evocative examination of the production and use...  Read More >>

The Gas Sector in Latin Europe’s Industrial History: Lighting and Heating the World

The Gas Sector in Latin Europe’s Industrial History:...

Author: Ana Cardoso de Matos ,  Alexandre Fernandez
ISBN: 9783031366734
Format: Hardback
$448.77

This volume sheds light on the technical and institutional handicaps that the gas industry had to face since the...  Read More >>

Second City: Birmingham and the Forging of Modern Britain

Second City: Birmingham and the Forging of Modern Britain...

Author: Richard Vinen
ISBN: 9780141993171
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Richard Vinen makes a compelling case for Birmingham as the overlooked heart of British history For over a century,...  Read More >>

The Value of Work since the 18th Century: Custom, Conflict, Measurement and Theory

The Value of Work since the 18th Century: Custom, Conflict,...

Author: Massimo Asta ,  Pedro Ramos Pinto
ISBN: 9781350332072
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Beginning in the 18th century, a turning point in labour history as work encountered an industrialising modernity,...  Read More >>

South Wales Miners: Glowyr de Cymru: A History of the South Wales Miners' Federation, 1898-1914

South Wales Miners: Glowyr de Cymru: A History of the...

Author: Robert Page Arnot
ISBN: 9781032577326
Format: Hardback
$252.00

First published in 1967, South Wales Miners: Glowyr de Cymru is a vivid portrayal of contending personalities in...  Read More >>

Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor

Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor...

Author: Kim Kelly
ISBN: 9781982171063
Format: Paperback
$52.77

An inclusive, character-driven, and deeply researched history of the American labor movement from Teen Vogue labor...  Read More >>

Ludwig Loewe, the Forgotten Pioneer Industrialist of Imperial Berlin: A Life (1837–1886)

Ludwig Loewe, the Forgotten Pioneer Industrialist of...

Author: Heidi Zogbaum
ISBN: 9783631904886
Format: Hardback
$80.21

Ludwig Loewe (1837-1886) laid the foundations for mass production in the German metal industry with the help of...  Read More >>

Workplace Relations in Colonial Bengal: The Jute Industry and Indian Labour 1870s-1930s

Workplace Relations in Colonial Bengal: The Jute Industry...

Author: Anna Sailer (Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany) ,  Janaki Nair
ISBN: 9781350233560
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This book connects the history of labour movements with the transformation of workplace relations in South Asia...  Read More >>

Craftworkers in Nineteenth Century Scotland: Making and Adapting in an Industrial Age

Craftworkers in Nineteenth Century Scotland: Making...

Author: Stana Nenadic
ISBN: 9781474493086
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Explores how artisans and hand skills evolved against a background of technical and commercial modernisation in...  Read More >>

Why the Industrial Revolution Happened in Britain

Why the Industrial Revolution Happened in Britain

Author: Jeremy Black
ISBN: 9781398114494
Format: Hardback
$59.49

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Beyond Piggly Wiggly: Inventing the American Self-Service Store

Beyond Piggly Wiggly: Inventing the American Self-Service...

Author: Lisa C. Tolbert
ISBN: 9780820364414
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Patented in 1917, Piggly Wiggly was the most influential self-service store of the early twentieth century. This...  Read More >>

Beyond Piggly Wiggly: Inventing the American Self-Service Store

Beyond Piggly Wiggly: Inventing the American Self-Service...

Author: Lisa C. Tolbert
ISBN: 9780820364421
Format: Hardback
$303.47

Patented in 1917, Piggly Wiggly was the most influential self-service store of the early twentieth century. This...  Read More >>

Progress in Trade Facilitation in CAREC Countries: A 10-Year Corridor Performance Measurement and Monitoring Perspective

Progress in Trade Facilitation in CAREC Countries: A...

Author: Asian Development Bank
ISBN: 9789292698546
Format: Paperback
$73.92

Discusses progress made by the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program's trade facilitation efforts...  Read More >>

Leveraging Benefits of Regional Economic Integration: The Lao People's Democratic Republic and the Greater Mekong Subregion

Leveraging Benefits of Regional Economic Integration:...

Author: Asian Development Bank
ISBN: 9789292699246
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Shows how the Lao People's Democratic Republic can leverage its regional position to boost trade, increase agriculture,...  Read More >>

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