Industrialisation and industrial history

First published in 1979, The Miners: A History of the National Union of Mineworkers 1939-46 describes the events and factors that led to the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1946.

The peoples of the British Isles gave to the world the foundations on which modern manufacturing economies are built.

ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL is famous for the engineering wonders he left behind - from the SS Great Britain to the delights of Paddington and Temple Meads stations, but much of what he designed has been lost.

In this book, seven distinguished scholars and writers discuss seven leading figures in the history of Canadian letters and public affairs.

The guild buildings of Shakespeare's Stratford represent a rare instance of a largely unchanged set of buildings which draw together the threads of the town's civic life.

There are 60 million health care workers globally and most of this workforce consists of nurses, as they are key providers of primary health care.

The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, which involved approximately 30,000 workers, is Canada's best-known strike.

The Ottoman Empire went through rapid economic and social development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as it approached its end.

Throughout history, marriage has been used as a method of creating and strengthening bonds between elites and the societies over which they ruled.

Mapping Space, Sense, and Movement in Florence explores the potential of digital mapping or Historical GIS as a research and teaching tool to enable researchers and students to uncover the spatial, kinetic and sensory dimensions of the early modern city.

First published in 1977, this book studies three important nineteenth-century novelists: Mrs Gaskell, William Hale White and Thomas Hardy.

For over a hundred years, technological change has been framed using a simple narrative: technology drives history.

This book examines the overlapping spaces in modern Western cities to explore the small-scale processes that shaped these cities between c.

In spite of the popularity she enjoyed during her lifetime, Charlotte Riddell (1832-1906) has received little attention from scholars.

Der zweite Band der Reihe 'Gab es eine Alternative?

In recent years, the integrity of food production and distribution has become an issue of wide social concern.

What is the role of cultural heritage in multi-ethnic societies, where cultural memory is often polarized by antagonistic identity traditions?

Re-examination of the role of guilds in the early modern European economy.

Lockheed has been one of American's largest corporations and most important defense contractors from World War II to the present day (since 1995 as part of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company).

Making the Scene is a history of 1960s Yorkville, Toronto's countercultural mecca.

A History of Siena provides a concise and up-to-date biography of the city, from its ancient and medieval development up to the present day, and makes Siena's history, culture, and traditions accessible to anyone studying or visiting the city.

Streetscapes are part of the taken-for-granted spaces of everyday urban life, yet they are also contested arenas in which struggles over identity, memory, and place shape the social production of urban space.

This book examines Nordic cities from 1850 and their transformation from traditional, oligarchic towns to modern, inclusive welfare cities.

Ein Einblick in die Geschichte der Messe und des Congress Innsbruck anlässlich ihrer Jubiläen.

Studies in the Ecclesiastical and Social History of Toulouse in the Age of the Cathars is John H.

Taking the form of two companion volumes, Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland represents the first major investigation into the administration, experience, impact and representation of summary justice in Scottish towns, c.

Originally published in 1979 at a time when white-collar union membership had increased both in the public and private sectors of the economy, this book explains who the members were, why there was such astonishing membership growth and the circumstances which surrounded it.

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

First published in 1951.

This interdisciplinary volume focuses on the politics, economics, technologies, uses, and cultures of maintenance of different forms of communication over long time or in Longue Duree.

Between 1889 and 1919, Weetman Pearson became one of the world's most important engineering contractors, a pioneer in the international oil industry, and one of Britain's wealthiest men.

Originally published in 1977, this book explains the complexity of collective bargaining and discusses the nature of trade unionism and trade unions, emphasising the collectivity aspect.

Originally published in 1963, The Landsorganisationen I Sverige (LO - Swedish Confederation of Trades Unions), enjoys an international reputation as a trade union movement with progressive ideas on wage policy and collective bargaining.

Ian Inkster's intent in these studies is to move beyond the high culture and expertise of science towards the construction of the culture of urban communities.

The second volume of the two-volume set on Song Dynasty cities focuses on municipal development policies and population management strategies in urban areas.

Few measures, if any, could claim to have had a greater impact on British society than the poor law.

First published in 1979, The Miners: A History of the National Union of Mineworkers 1939-46 describes the events and factors that led to the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1946.

The Later Medieval City, 1300-1500, the second part of David Nicholas's ambitious two-volume study of cities and city life in the Middle Ages, fully lives up to its splendid precursor, The Growth of the Medieval City.

Warship Builders is the first scholarly study of the U.

Towns are imagined, lived and experienced, as much as they are conceived and constructed.

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in Early Modern Festivals.

Urban motorways are among the greatest - and least forgiven - legacies of post-war planning in Britain.

This brilliant analysis, first published in 1923, predicted the development of shop floor bargaining and explains how attitudes, doubts and fears have remained relatively fixed yet open to various pressures.

Britain's Living Past is a celebration of the best of the past, of things that have been preserved because they still matter to the community.