This book captures the complexities of both development and environment, from the political economy point of view, to offer a broad economic and environmental history of post-independence India.
This book captures the complexities of both development and environment, from the political economy point of view, to offer a broad economic and environmental history of post-independence India.
Der stalinsche Terror Ende der dreißiger Jahre übersteigt, wie auch der Holocaust, in seinen Ausmaßen und Gräueln das menschliche Vorstellungsvermögen.
Der stalinsche Terror Ende der dreißiger Jahre übersteigt, wie auch der Holocaust, in seinen Ausmaßen und Gräueln das menschliche Vorstellungsvermögen.
This book investigates the architectural history of China in the Mao era (1949-1976), focusing on the rise of modernism in the last seven years of the Cultural Revolution from 1969 to 1976.
This book investigates the architectural history of China in the Mao era (1949-1976), focusing on the rise of modernism in the last seven years of the Cultural Revolution from 1969 to 1976.
English schoolchildren are taught that Sir Richard Arkwright 'invented the water-frame and was the father of the Industrial Revolution and the factory system.
English schoolchildren are taught that Sir Richard Arkwright 'invented the water-frame and was the father of the Industrial Revolution and the factory system.
During the Industrial Revolution, the western valley of Gwent underwent a dramatic change to become one of the most important iron producing areas in Britain, with rich deposits of iron ore, coal and limestone.
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.
When we think about Victorian factories, 'Dark Satanic Mills' might spring to mind - images of blackened buildings and exhausted, exploited workers struggling in unhealthy and ungodly conditions.
The Great Labour Unrest examines the struggle between liberals, socialists and revolutionary syndicalists for control of Britain's best established district miners' union.
The death of Georgia governor-elect Eugene Talmadge in late 1946 launched a constitutional crisis that ranks as one of the most unusual political events in U.
This glorious visual celebration of train travel keeps you on the right track with stop-offs at the most important and incredible rail routes from all over the world.
Mit über 6000 Japanerinnen und Japanern und etwa 400 japanischen Unternehmen ist Düsseldorf der drittgrößte japanische Wirtschaftsstandort in Europa und damit bis heute eine der wichtigsten Anlaufstellen Japans auf dem Kontinent.
In this second edition, America's Urban History now includes contemporary analysis of race, immigration, and cities under the Trump administration and has been fully updated with new scholarship on early urbanization, mass incarceration and cities, the Great Society, the diversification of the suburbs, and environmental justice.
In this second edition, America's Urban History now includes contemporary analysis of race, immigration, and cities under the Trump administration and has been fully updated with new scholarship on early urbanization, mass incarceration and cities, the Great Society, the diversification of the suburbs, and environmental justice.
This second volume of the author's studies opens with a new survey of the recent historiography of Dubrovnik, and also contains four items specially translated from Serbo-Croat.
This second volume of the author's studies opens with a new survey of the recent historiography of Dubrovnik, and also contains four items specially translated from Serbo-Croat.
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.
"e;Emma Griffin gives a new and powerful voice to the men and women whose blood and sweat greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution"e; (Tim Hitchcock, author of Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London).
The quest for food to fill the body, and food to seduce the soul, has provided a catalyst for the exploding variety of restaurants in the United States.
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.
A favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly cliche to market tobacco products.
Completed in 1938, the Trans-Iranian Railway connected Tehran to Iran's two major bodies of water: the Caspian Sea in the north and the Persian Gulf in the south.
The most flamboyant, consistently dishonest racketeer was Supervisor of Internal Revenue John McDonald, whose organization defrauded the federal government of millions of dollars.
As the columns of French infantry marched up the slopes of the Mont St Jean at Waterloo, the British heavy cavalry, the Royal Scots Greys to the fore, crashed into the packed ranks of the enemy.
Medium-Sized Cities in the Age of Globalisation provides a brand-new perspective on academic discussions of globalisation through exploring urban development outside of select global cities including Paris, Tokyo, and London, and instead focuses on medium-sized cities in the context of a globalising world.
Medium-Sized Cities in the Age of Globalisation provides a brand-new perspective on academic discussions of globalisation through exploring urban development outside of select global cities including Paris, Tokyo, and London, and instead focuses on medium-sized cities in the context of a globalising world.
Originally published in 1990 and written with full access to the official records of the NGA, this book provides a remarkably detailed history of one of Britain's most democratic and industrially effective trades unions.
