Industrialisation and industrial history

Ebenezer Howard, an Englishman, and Jane Jacobs, a naturalized Canadian, personify the twentieth century's opposing outlooks on cities.

Entdecken Sie die Welt der japanischen Keramik: Von Raku bis KutaniTauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der japanischen Töpferkunst!

Un clásico en estado puro, la obra de referencia sobre los orígenes de la Revolución Industrial en Occidente, traducido a dieciséis idiomas e inédito en español.

The British Industrial Revolution has long been seen as the spark for modern, global industrialization and sustained economic growth.

The British Industrial Revolution has long been seen as the spark for modern, global industrialization and sustained economic growth.

Maris Boyd Gillette's groundbreaking study tells the story of Jingdezhen, China's porcelain capital, from its origins in 1004 in Song dynasty China to the present day.

Maris Boyd Gillette's groundbreaking study tells the story of Jingdezhen, China's porcelain capital, from its origins in 1004 in Song dynasty China to the present day.

The history of the post office involves many of the most significant themes in the social, economic and political history of Britain.

This short history tells the story of five hundred years of papermaking against the general background of the coming of paper and printing in Britain, through the major developments of the Industrial Revolution, up to the technological advances which have made possible the enormous high-speed paper machines of the present day.

This account of the extraordinary growth of the Greek ship-operating industry following the Second World War is a major breakthrough.

Canals hold a unique place in British culture, with associations of lazy summer afternoons, journeying through lush green countryside.

A pocket guide to 60 of the most iconic British locomotives of the last two centuries, which will have wide appeal as a handy yet detailed reference book on British locomotives.

A pocket guide to 60 of the most iconic British locomotives of the last two centuries, which will have wide appeal as a handy yet detailed reference book on British locomotives.

The industrial revolution was and is a huge development and one of the fundamental changes in human experience in the modern world.

The industrial revolution was and is a huge development and one of the fundamental changes in human experience in the modern world.

West German Industrialists and the Making of the Economic Miracle investigates the mentality of post-war German (heavy) industrialists through an analysis of their attitudes, thinking and views on social, political and, of course, economic matters at the time, including the 'social market economy' and how they saw their own role in society, with this investigation taking place against the backdrop of the 'economic miracle' and the Cold War of the 1950s and 60s.

West German Industrialists and the Making of the Economic Miracle investigates the mentality of post-war German (heavy) industrialists through an analysis of their attitudes, thinking and views on social, political and, of course, economic matters at the time, including the 'social market economy' and how they saw their own role in society, with this investigation taking place against the backdrop of the 'economic miracle' and the Cold War of the 1950s and 60s.

In this surprising new look at how clothing, style, and commerce came together to change American culture, Jennifer Le Zotte examines how secondhand goods sold at thrift stores, flea markets, and garage sales came to be both profitable and culturally influential.

Home economics emerged at the turn of the twentieth century as a movement to train women to be more efficient household managers.

Works of Man is a chronicle of man's attempts from prehistoric times to the space age to exploit for his own purposes the slowly discerned laws of nature.

It is a largely forgotten fact that Britain was the first industrialized country in the world, but Guy Martin - the cult motorcycle racer and mechanic - is about to remind us how the industrial revolution helped make Britain great.

In 1831 John Dodgson Carr, son of a Quaker grocer, set off to walk from his home in Kendal to Carlisle, determined to launch a great enterprise.

Stationary steam engines were the quiet powerhouses of the Industrial Revolution.

London's Industrial Past gives the reader an opportunity to read about a selection of factories that were once scattered across the city.

The Industrial Revolution brought momentous change throughout the country and shaped a significant industrial force in the Tees Valley.

Lincolnshire today is a thriving agricultural county and home to one of the finest medieval cathedrals in the world, but not so long ago Lincolnshire was equally famous as a prosperous industrial county.

At first glance the largely rural county of 'Sussex by the Sea' may not be the first to spring to mind when it comes to the subject of industrial heritage, but closer inspection reveals that it had its fair share of extractive industries, such as early chalk quarries and lime works, thanks to the geology of the Sussex Downland, and from the interior Wealden Clays came brickworks and iron forges and furnaces.

When the new town established in East Shropshire acquired the name 'Telford' in 1968, sign boards set up on major roads entering the designated area announced, 'Telford - Birthplace of Industry'.

Kent is thought of as the 'Garden of England' and has been described as a county of 'hops, apples and cherries'.

Before the emergence of the steam railway rocketed the likes of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Robert Stephenson - the great Victorian engineers - into the limelight, there was a 'Colossus' who dominated the engineering scene and laid the foundations for what was to follow.

Porthmadog was once host to a wide variety of industries.

In the first half of the twentieth century, and in the years following the Second World War, Leamington and Warwick flourished as industrial centres.

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.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel was Britain's greatest engineer, he was the man who built everything on a huge scale, he built Britain's biggest ship, some of Britain's most spectacular bridges, a tunnel under the Thames and the finest railway line in Britain, the London to Bristol route of the Great Western Railway.

'In his whistle-stop tour of inventions large and small, the scientist Trevor Norton shares the Gershwins' view that invention is fundamentally comic.

The increased participation of women in the labour force was one of the most significant changes to Canadian social life during the quarter century after the close of the Second World War.

The increased participation of women in the labour force was one of the most significant changes to Canadian social life during the quarter century after the close of the Second World War.

Company towns are often portrayed as powerless communities, fundamentally dependent on the outside influence of global capital.

Company towns are often portrayed as powerless communities, fundamentally dependent on the outside influence of global capital.

Despite acute labour shortages during the Second World War, Canadian employers—with the complicity of state officials—discriminated against workers of African, Asian, and Eastern and Southern European origin, excluding them from both white collar and skilled jobs.

Many studies have concluded that the effects of early industrialization on traditional craftsworkers were largely negative.

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

Militant Minority tells the compelling story of British Columbia workers who sustained a left tradition during the bleakest days of the Cold War.

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

Moving Beyond Borders is the first book-length history of Black health care workers in Canada, delving into the experiences of thirty-five postwar-era nurses who were born in Canada or who immigrated from the Caribbean either through Britain or directly to Canada.

Orality and Literacy investigates the interactions of the oral and the literate through close studies of particular cultures at specific historical moments.

In Newspaper City, Phillip Gordon Mackintosh scrutinizes the reluctance of early Torontonians to pave their streets.

In Newspaper City, Phillip Gordon Mackintosh scrutinizes the reluctance of early Torontonians to pave their streets.