Industrialisation and industrial history

This business history elucidates the international history of the interwar period by putting the armaments sector front and center.

Documents the first sixty years of Ford Motor Company''s international expansion, tracing its global business expansion across six continents.

With its celebrated World Heritage List, UNESCO steers the global heritage agenda through the definition and redefinition of what constitutes heritage and by offering the highest-level forum for heritage professionalism.

From their origins, railways produced an intense competition between the two major continental systems in France and Germany.

This book focusses on the instruments, practices, and materialities produced by various authorities to monitor, regulate, and identify migrants in European cities from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.

This book is concerned with cultural and political discourses that affect the production of architecture.

In its broadest sense, this book is concerned with the attempt by workers in Britain during the period 1760-1871 to engage in collective action in circumstances of conflict with their employers during a time when the nation and many of its traditional economic structures and customary modes of working were undergoing rapid and unsettling change.

Prakash Kumar documents the global history of agricultural indigo, exploring the effects of nineteenth-century globalisation on a colonial industry in South Asia.

The four decades between the two Universal Exhibitions of 1888 and 1929 were formative in the creation of modern Barcelona.

In the histories of the University of Toronto which have been written to date women are conspicuous in their absence.

This book offers a fresh look at the often-censured but imperfectly understood traditions of Utilitarianism and political economy in their bearing for Victorian literature and culture.

Flanders, best known for its large cities and export-grade woollen cloth, is the setting for these articles.

In this holistic approach to the study of textiles and their makers, Colleen Kriger charts the role cotton has played in commercial, community, and labor settings in West Africa.

Charlotte-based NationsBank, formerly named NCNB, became one of the nation's leading financial powers following its acquisition in 1988 of First Republic Bank of Texas and its merger in 1991 with Atlanta-based C&S/Sovran.

Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape brings together various disciplinary perspectives and diverse theories on art's dialectical and evolving relationship with urban regeneration processes.

Urban textile mills shaped European cities from the late 18th century.

This is an important contribution to the new urban history, describing and analysing one of the best examples of a company town in nineteenth-century Europe.

By the end of the nineteenth century, Pittsburgh emerged as a major manufacturing center in the United States.

Between 1889 and 1919, Weetman Pearson became one of the world's most important engineering contractors, a pioneer in the international oil industry, and one of Britain's wealthiest men.

There are 60 million health care workers globally and most of this workforce consists of nurses, as they are key providers of primary health care.

"e;The story of the Smirnov family is an operatic tour-de-force, and Linda Himelstein tells it with grace and passion.

In this book, Claire Puccia Parham reveals the human side of the project in the words of its engineers, laborers, and carpenters.

The federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 was passed in a time of turmoil, conflict, and often conflagration in cities across the nation.

Adopting Argentina's popular uprisings against neoliberalism including the 2001-02 rebellion and subsequent mass protests as a case study, The Mobilization and Demobilization of Middle-Class Revolt analyzes two decades of longitudinal research (1995-2018), including World Bank and Latinobarometer household survey data, along with participant interviews, to explore why nonpolitically active middle-class citizens engage in radical protest movements, and why they eventually demobilize.

Few cultural activities speak more powerfully to international histories of the modern world than football.

Agatha Christie, Graham Greene und Hollywood machten ihn zum Mythos.

Originally published in 1985, Diet and Health in Modern Britain examines the changes in diet and health in Britain during the rapid social development of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

American Chinatowns: Race, Identity, and Postwar Urban Redevelopment offers a captivating exploration of the vibrant yet contested landscapes of Chinatowns across the United States.

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

In its broadest sense, this book is concerned with the attempt by workers in Britain during the period 1760-1871 to engage in collective action in circumstances of conflict with their employers during a time when the nation and many of its traditional economic structures and customary modes of working were undergoing rapid and unsettling change.

In this book, Claire Puccia Parham reveals the human side of the project in the words of its engineers, laborers, and carpenters.

Art, Literature and Religion in Early Modern Sussex is an interdisciplinary study of a county at the forefront of religious, political and artistic developments in early-modern England.

How would the history of an urban area look if water were at the center of analysis?

This book traces the history of bird guano, demonstrating how this unique commodity helped unite the Pacific Basin with the industrialized world.

Originally published in 1979 at a time when white-collar union membership had increased both in the public and private sectors of the economy, this book explains who the members were, why there was such astonishing membership growth and the circumstances which surrounded it.

This book presents the first scholarly study of the contribution of canals to Britain's industrial revolution.

Early modern Naples has been characterized as a marginal, wild and exotic place on the fringes of the European world, and as such an appropriate target of attempts, by Catholic missionaries and others, to 'civilize' the city.

The Great Labour Unrest examines the struggle between liberals, socialists and revolutionary syndicalists for control of Britain's best established district miners' union.

Germany was the most powerful kingdom in the medieval West from the mid-tenth to the mid-thirteenth century.

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.

Examines the debate over the potential reestablishment of guilds that occurred inside and outside the French government from 1776 to 1821.

Cityscapes in History: Creating the Urban Experience explores the ways in which scholars from a variety of disciplines - history, history of art, geography and architecture - think about and study the urban environment.

Almost 80 years after Leon Trotsky founded the Fourth International, there are now Trotskyist organizations in 57 countries, including most of Western Europe and Latin America.

Originally published in 1987, this volume filled a notable gap in Scottish urban history and considers the place of Scottish towns in urban life during the 16th and 17th Centuries.

This book reflects on the motivations of creative practitioners who have moved out of cities from the mid-1960s onwards to establish creative homesteads.