Industrialisation and industrial history

Writings by early-modern English artisans are rare and thus precious.

This book presents an architectural overview of Dublin's mass-housing building boom from the 1930s to the 1970s.

As Secretary General of the ICF and previously Assistant General Secretary of the IMF, Charles Levinson played an important part in developing the countervailing labour response to the multinational corporations.

In this collection, the essays examine the critical role that judgments about noise and sound played in framing the meaning of civility in British discourse and literature during the long eighteenth century.

The Routledge History of the Twentieth-Century United States is a comprehensive introduction to the most important trends and developments in the study of modern United States history.

Impoverished, indebted, and underdeveloped at the close of World War II, Romania underwent dramatic changes as part of its transition to a centrally planned economy.

An argument that America''s economy needs a strong and innovative manufacturing sector and the jobs it creates.

This book brings together twelve outstanding articles by eminent historians to throw light on the evolution of medieval towns and the lives of their inhabitants.

The early modern period is often characterised as a time that witnessed the rise of a new and powerful merchant class across Europe.

Outstanding Title by Choice MagazineOn the banks of the Pacific Northwests greatest river lies the Hanford nuclear reservation, an industrial site that appears to be at odds with the surrounding vineyards and desert.

This book combines film studies with urban theory in a spatial exploration of twentieth century Los Angeles.

This volume presents a comprehensive study of the urbanization of Bengal from ancient to postcolonial times.

This volume examines how violence and resilience is experienced in urban spaces, and explores the history of a variety of people told from the perspective of the margins.

The only survey of the urban, commercial and industrial history of the period between the Norman conquest and the Black Death.

Core tourist sites for the classical world are the ruins of those many and scattered examples of 'lost' and abandoned towns - from Pompeii to Timgad to Ephesus and Petra.

From its foundation, the city of Constantinople dominated the Byzantine world.

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

Cities, Railways, Modernities chronicles the transformation that London and Paris experienced during the nineteenth century through the lens of the London Underground and the Paris Metro.

Originally published in 1935, this provocative book examined the tendencies of the Trade Unions in early 20th Century Britain in the light of their history.

The field of urban environmental history is a relatively new one, yet it is rapidly moving to the forefront of scholarly research and is the focus of much interdisciplinary work.

In recent years the concept of 'civil society' has become central to the historian's understanding of class, cultural and political power in the nineteenth-century town and city.

A Waterstones Best History Book of the YearThe bestselling history of the North of England as told through the lives of its inhabitants.

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.

Only in recent years has archaeology begun to examine in a coherent manner the transformation of the landscape from classical through to medieval times.

Vom Ruhrgebiet war vor 1914 noch kaum die Rede.

Politics in the Age of Peel, first published in 1953, is concerned with the ordinary working world of politicians in England during the stormy period between 1830 and 1850: the age of the railway, the Chartists, the Anti-Corn Law League and the Irish famine.

Despite the considerable volume of research into various aspects of the social and economic, cultural and political history of eighteenth-century British towns, remarkably little has focused upon, or even reflected upon the distinctive experience of women in the urban context.

The rise of China is no doubt one of the most important events in world economic history since the Industrial Revolution.

Originally published in 1981, this book explains the factors which precipitated and effected changes in the major dimensions of union activity in Britain since 1960.

The history of the voluntary sector in British towns and cities has received increasing scholarly attention in recent years.

Nicholas Karamzin (1766–1826) was a remarkably active thinker and writer during a time that was trying to all Europeans.

Violence and community were intimately linked in the ancient world.

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

Understanding Collapse explores the collapse of ancient, complex civilizations, such as the Roman Empire, the Maya, and Easter Island.

This book connects the history of labour movements with the transformation of workplace relations in South Asia from the late 19th century to the 1930s.

The market town has been dismissed as an incompletely formed urban community; in fact it was the primary urban unit in pre-industrial England.

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

The disastrous protestant defeat in the Schmalkaldic War (1546-47) and the promulgation of the Ausburg Interim (1548) left the fate of German Protestantism in doubt.

Originally published in 1970 this book was written by a successful trade union leader.

Originally published in 1978, The Making of Urban Scotland traces the evolution of towns from their prehistoric origins to the present day.

The Useful Knowledge of William Hutton shows the rapid rise of a self-taught workman and the growing prominence of the city of Birmingham during the two major events of the eighteenth-century - the Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment.

Historians know a great deal about how wars begin, but far less about how they end.

This book presents a thoroughly researched and meticulously documented study of the emergence, development, and demise of music, theatre, recitation, and dance witnessed by the populace on thoroughfares, plazas, and makeshift outdoor performance spaces in Edo/Tokyo.

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.

This book is the first comprehensive economic, social and political study of the London suburb of Croydon from 1900 up to the present day.