Industrialisation and industrial history

First published in 1983.

Zwischen 1950 und 1989 wurde im Emsland und in der Grafschaft Bentheim der »Emslandplan« umgesetzt, was die Region nachhaltig prägte.

This book challenges the widespread view that Islam is a reactionary religion defending tradition against modernity and individual freedom.

Cities, Texts and Social Networks examines the experiences of urban life from late antiquity through the close of the fifteenth century, in regions ranging from late Imperial Rome to Muslim Syria, Iraq and al-Andalus, England, the territories of medieval Francia, Flanders, the Low Countries, Italy and Germany.

Cities have always had a key role in warfare, as strategic centres which periodically suffered the horrors of siege and sack.

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

Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace explores the complex intersection between the geographic, material, and ideological marketplaces through the lens of religious belief and practice.

Although a great deal has been published on the economic, social and engineering history of nineteenth-century railways, the work of historical geographers has been much less conspicuous.

Was, wenn die Geschichte, wie wir sie kennen, nicht die ganze Wahrheit erzählt?

In the years 1849 and 1850, Henry Mayhew was the metropolitan correspondent of the Morning Chronicle in its national survey of labour and the poor.

Heritage and Sustainable Urban Transformations introduces the concept of 'deep cities', a novel approach to the understanding and management of sustainable historic cities that will advance knowledge about how the long-term, temporal and transformative character of urban heritage can be better integrated into urban policies for sustainable futures.

Plague in the Early Modern World, now in a second edition, presents a broad range of primary source materials from Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, China, India, and North America that explore the nature and impact of plague and disease in the early modern world.

Americans have been riding bikes for more than a century now.

A unique 2010 account of childhood during the industrial revolution through the autobiographies of working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Emma Paterson was a pioneer of trade unionism for women.

Beginning in the 18th century, a turning point in labour history as work encountered an industrialising modernity, this book explores how different forms of work have been valued up to the present day.

This book brings together perspectives from sociology, political science, gender studies, and history to produce new ways of analysing wildfire preparedness and policy in Australia.

Given current projections of population and household numbers, housing has become arguably the most important issue in planning.

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

By the end of the nineteenth century, Paris was widely acknowledged as the cultural capital of the world, the home of avant-garde music and art, symbolist literature and bohemian culture.

The familiar industrialisation of northern England and less familiar de-industrialisation of the south are shown to have depended on a common process.

This book brings together perspectives from sociology, political science, gender studies, and history to produce new ways of analysing wildfire preparedness and policy in Australia.

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

Drawing on a body of research covering primarily Europe and the Americas, but stretching also to Asia and Africa, from the mid-eighteenth century to the present, this book explores the methodological and heuristic implications of studying cities in relation to one another.

Animal Cities builds upon a recent surge of interest about animals in the urban context.

Colonialization has never failed to provoke discussion and debate over its territorial, economic and political projects, and their ongoing consequences.

From Britain's most popular railway historian, a concise, authoritative and fast-paced telling of how the railways changed the world.

Architecture and Urbanism in Viceregal Mexico presents a fascinating survey of urban history between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.

A 2017 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award winnerThis book is an introduction to the history of alcoholic drink in England from the end of the Middle Ages to the present day.

Winner of the 2008 Holyer An Gof Award for non-fiction.

During the nineteenth century, Liverpool became the heart of an international maritime network.

This title was first published in 2002: Since the invention of printing in the mid-fifteenth century the production, distribution and consumption of printed matter have been the principal means through which new ideas and representations have been spread.

From the perspective of trade unions, European integration makes it more necessary than ever before to establish common political positions.

The study of modern Chinese history has developed rapidly in recent decades and has seen increased exploration of new topics and innovative approaches.

This book examines the emergence of modern company towns in Iran by delineating the architectural, political, and industrial histories of three distinct resource-based 'company town' projects built in association with the 'Big Three' powers of World War II.

This book comprehensively examines architecture, urban planning, and civic perception in three modern cities as they transform into national capitals through an entangled, transnational process that involves an imaginative geography based on embellished memories of classical Athens.

Drawing together an international team of historians, lawyers and historical sociolinguists, this volume investigates urban cultures of law in Scotland, with a special focus on Aberdeen and its rich civic archive, the Low Countries, Norway, Germany and Poland from c.

Challenging current perspectives of urbanisation, The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience explores how our towns and cities have shaped and been shaped by cultural, spatial and gendered influences.

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.

'Hurry' is an intrinsic component of modernity.

Global City Typologies explores the historical, cultural and socio-economic transactional forces in the development of existing cities through to newly planned and emerging cities.

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

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

Women's emancipation through productive labour was a key tenet of socialist politics in post-World War II Yugoslavia.

This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960s-from minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-specific practices, and feminist art-in the context of contemporary architectural discourses.