Industrialisation and industrial history

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.

This book examines urban experience from the vantage point of the global South.

The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Rural Life brings together the latest research on peasantry in medieval Europe.

Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London explores a largely obscured marketplace of motherhood that provided ways for women to manage the stigma of illegitimacy and their respectable identities within Victorian and Edwardian society.

This book is about a lost world, albeit one less than 50 years old.

In 1832, 57 Irish Catholic workers were brought to the United States to lay one of the most difficult miles of American railway, Duffy's Cut of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

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

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It has long been recognised that the Church played a major role in the development of towns and cities from the earliest times, a fact attested to by the prominence and number of ecclesiastical buildings that still dominate many urban areas.

Urban power and politics are topics of abiding interest for students of the city.

New Directions in Urban Planning in the Ancient Mediterranean assembles the most up-to-date research on the design and construction of ancient cities in the wider Mediterranean.

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

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

An analysis of Japan's industrialization in an international, historical and economic perspective, from the time that her ports were first opened to foreign trade.

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.

Prior to 1914, Germany dominated the worldwide production of synthetic organic dyes and pharmaceuticals like aspirin.

In this masterful synthesis, Charalambos Bouras draws together material and textual evidence for Athens in the Middle Byzantine period, from the mid-tenth century to 1204, when it was conquered by Crusaders.

Originally published in 1981, Trade Unions was written at a time when there was a widespread belief that Britain's trade unions were undemocratic, obstructive and strike-prone.

This book advances the trend toward field methods in rhetorical scholarship by collecting distinct chapters based on the same object of study - the University of Nevada, Reno's Masterplan that extends the University into the adjacent community.

Charts Britain''s transformation from the European periphery to a global economic power from the reign of Elizabeth I to Victoria.

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.

A comprehensive history of roads and road-building in Ontario.

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

Originally published in 1976, Working Class Radicalism in Mid-Victorian England examines working-class radicalism in the mid-Victorian period and suggests that after the fading of Chartist militancy the radical tradition was preserved in a working-class subculture that enabled working men to resist the full consolidation of middle-class hegemony.

This volume is based on possibly the biggest single Europe-wide project in urban history.

This book examines the meat provision system of Rio de Janeiro from the 1850s to the 1930s.

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

The late nineteenth century witnessed unprecedented levels of urban growth as migration swelled the population of European cities to new heights.

Britain's key importance in world history was a product of its constitution and its empire, but both, in turn, were sustained and supported by Britain's role in achieving the first Industrial Revolution.

Fire had always been one of the greatest threats to an early modern British society that relied on the naked flame as the prime source of heating, lighting and cooking.

Public health policies had a profound impact on urban life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, yet relatively few people took an active interest in the formulation of these policies.

In the half millennium of their existence, guilds in the Low Countries played a highly significant role in shaping the societies of which they were a part.

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.

Positioned at the crossroads of the maritime routes linking the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, the Yemeni port of Aden grew to be one of the medieval world's greatest commercial hubs.

Density of housing in late medieval and early modern London could make access to light and privacy incompatible, provoking neighbor disputes.

Sao Paulo, by far the most populated state in Brazil, has an economy to rival that of Colombia or Venezuela.

First published in 1924.

Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world, and we take it for granted that our lives are shaped by the hours of the day.

First published in 1981, this book examines the life of Arthur Harding, a well-known figure in the East End underworld during the first half of the twentieth century.

Journalists and poets, economists and political historians, have told the story of Canada’s railways, but their accounts pay little attention to the workers who built them.

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

Renaissance music, like its sister arts, was most often experienced collectively.

Originally published in 1991, this book opens with a theoretical and historical section and analyses the affairs of both the communist party and the trade unions of specific European countries.

This interdisciplinary volume illuminates the shadowy history of the disadvantaged, sick and those who did not conform to the accepted norms of society.

This book is part of an ongoing transnational turn in cultural history.

The Hanseatic League was a commercial and defensive federation of merchant guilds based in harbour towns along the North Sea and Baltic coasts of what are now Germany and her neighbours, which eventually dominated maritime trade in Northern Europe and spread its influence much further afield.