Industrialisation and industrial history

Learning behind Bars is an oral history of former Irish republican prisoners in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland between 1971, the year internment was introduced, and 2000, when the high-security Long Kesh Detention Centre/HM Prison Maze closed.

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.

Guiding the reader through the many guises of global economic history, this book uncovers its key issues, debates and subjects.

Literature and historical writing among the Czechs, as among many other nations lacking a political state, played a vital role in promoting national consciousness.

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

TEXT ONLY EBThe Sunday Times BestsellerA glorious insight into Britain over the last 150 years - its history, landscape and people - from the window of Britain's many and magnificent railway journeys.

First published in 1997, European Directories is a major resource guide for urban historians and historical geographers.

One of the world's largest sellers of footwear, the Bata Company of Zlin, Moravia has a remarkable history that touches on crucial aspects of what made the world modern.

First published in 1976.

This is the first full-length biography of New York surgeon and social activist Stephen Smith (1823-1922), who was appointed to fifty years of public service by three mayors, seven governors, and two U.

The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present is a brief, insightful and lively history of the peoples, events and interactions that have formed New York City.

Family, Work, and Household presents the social and occupational life of a late medieval Iberian town in rich, unprecedented detail.

Covering areas in today's Ukraine, Poland, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, and Slovakia, this book studies the impact of both natural and human-inflicted disasters on pre-modern towns.

Securing Urban Heritage considers the impact of securitization on access to urban heritage sites.

Legal Publishing in Antebellum America presents a history of the law book publishing and distribution industry in the United States.

This book uses 'politics of urban knowledge' as a lens to understand how professionals, administrations, scholars, and social movements have surveyed, evaluated and theorized the city, identified problems, and shaped and legitimized practical interventions in planning and administration.

First published in 1960.

The need for a skilled, motivated and effective workforce is fundamental to the creation of the built environment across the world.

This volume explores the mutually transformative relations between migrants and port cities.

Plague in the Early Modern World 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.

In the last two decades, research on spatial paradigms and practices has gained momentum across disciplines and vastly different periods, including the field of medieval studies.

Few other cities can compare with Rome's history of continuous habitation, nor with the survival of so many different epochs in its present.

First published in 1988.

History, Memory and Public Life introduces readers to key themes in the study of historical memory and its significance by considering the role of historical expertise and understanding in contemporary public reflection on the past.

Unlike many United States industries, railroads are intrinsically linked to American soil and particular regions.

This title was first published in 2000.

Eldon House is a distinctive element in the historical townscape of London, Ontario.

Seeks to explore the nature of the relationship between Britain and India at the height of imperial expansion.

Originally published in 1990, Signs of Change assess the people of San Francisco according to their own demonstrative standards through the visual symbols.

Nach Jahrzehnten des nahezu kontinuierlichen wirtschaftlichen Wachstums in der Nachkriegszeit kehrte ab den 1970er Jahren auch in Österreich und Tirol wieder die "ökonomische Normalität" mit Auf- und Abschwüngen von Konjunkturzyklen ein.

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

First published in 1978.

This book examines the beliefs, practices and arguments surrounding the ritual of infant baptism and the raising of children in Geneva during the period of John Calvin's tenure as leader of the Reformed Church, 1536-1564.

This volume critically challenges the current creative city debate from a historical perspective.

How do we experience a city in terms of the senses?

This interesting and informative book shows how different groups of urban residents with different social, economic, and political power cope with the urban environment, struggle to make a living, participate in communal institutions, and influence the direction of cities and urban life.

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

"e;A fascinating study of the centrality of militarism in 18th-century British life, and how imperial expansion and arms went hand in hand .

Industrial policy has long been regarded as a strategy to encourage sector-, industry-, or economy-wide development by the state.

This book examines the role of (post)colonial ports in creating and shaping the ecotonal, cultural, historical, material, environmental, socio-political, and economic contexts in formerly colonized regions, spanning the Caribbean, Africa, North America, Europe, and the Pacific.

Through this book's roughly 50 reference entries, readers will gain a better appreciation of what life during the Industrial Revolution was like and see how the United States and Europe rapidly changed as societies transitioned from an agrarian economy to one based on machines and mass production.

Plague and the City uncovers discourses of plague and anti-plague measures in the city during the medieval, early modern and modern periods, and explores the connection between plague and urban environments including attempts by professional bodies to prevent or limit the outbreak of epidemic disease.

The Kegan Paul imprint was created and its reputation for a distinguished list of titles established during a forty-year period from 1871 to 1911.

Lost Railway Journeys from Around the World revisits our forgotten railway heritage in a beautiful visual and textual exploration of historic lines that can no longer be travelled.

Places and spaces are key factors in how individuals and groups construct their identities.

The most significant debate in global economic history over the past twenty years has dealt with the Great Divergence, the economic gap between different parts of the world.

Whilst much has been written about early modern urban history, the majority of this work has focussed on Western Europe with relatively little available in English on towns and cities in the former communist East.