Industrialisation and industrial history

Originally published in 1986, this book analyses the impact of the changing economic and political climate on trade unions in Europe.

This book focuses on the ethnically composite, heterogeneous, mixed nature of the Mediterranean cities and their cultural heritage between the late middle ages and early modern times.

This book shows how international influences profoundly shaped the 'English' home of Victorian and Edwardian London; homes which, in turn, influenced Britain's (and Britons') place on the world stage.

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.

This book is an interdisciplinary study that draws on a combination of archaeological evidence, building archaeological analysis, archival sources to explore the dynamic relations between dwelling houses, social organization of households, and patterns of cohabitation during the eighteenth century.

Published in 2008 and winner of the 2011 Thomas E.

This volume examines the pivotal role of movement, visibility, and experience within Pompeian houses as a major factor determining house form; the use of space; and the manner, meaning, and modalities of domestic daily life, through the application of GIS-based analysis.

International Arms Trade has always been a powerful and multi-functional constituent of world politics and international diplomacy.

Despite acute labour shortages during the Second World War, Canadian employers—with the complicity of state officials—discriminated against workers of African, Asian, and Eastern and Southern European origin, excluding them from both white collar and skilled jobs.

Noonomy explores the effect of modern technological shifts on human society.

From the Model T to today''s "lean manufacturing": the assembly line as crucial, yet controversial, agent of social and economic transformation.

Railway expansion was the great industrial project of the late 19th century, and the Great Powers built railways at speed and reaped great commercial benefits.

In recent years much scholarly attention has been focused on the encounter of cultures during the early modern period, and the global implications that such encounters held.

The love story of Susanna Moodie and her husband John has always been a shadowy area in Canadian literary history.

Most scholars agree that during the sixteenth century, the centre of European international trade shifted from Antwerp to Amsterdam, presaging the economic rise of the Dutch Republic in the following century.

At the end of the twentieth century, Britain was a consumer society.

Professor Raymond deals here with the evolution of the great Arab cities of the Ottoman period (1516-1800) - with questions of organisation, social life and the built space - looking in particular at Aleppo, Algiers, Constantine and, above all, at Cairo.

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

Urbanisation is rapidly changing the geographic and social landscape of India, and indeed Asia as a whole.

The Tudor and Stuart Town brings together many of the most important articles in the field of urban history.

The purpose of this volume is to provide a conspectus of current research on the history of guilds and corporations in Italy in the period from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century.

The appearance of Volume II of the Encyclopedia of Ukraine makes the second stage of a major publishing project.

In The Georgian Triumph, 1700-1830 (originally published in 1983), Michael Reed re-creates the ambience of eighteenth-century Britain, a period of astonishing change and, paradoxically, of massive stability.

Historic reconstructions have been a consistent part of the historic preservation and heritage conservation movements in the United States and Canada.

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

Social and environmental historians assess the extent to which transnational agents changed socioecological space as a consequence of globalization.

This inquiry into the technical advances that shaped the 20th century follows the evolutions of all the principal innovations introduced before 1913 (as detailed in the first volume) as well as the origins and elaborations of all fundamental 20th century advances.

First published in 1981, Labour Market Economics develops the basic economic theory of introductory courses within the context of labour market analysis and applies it both to particular features and special problems of the subject.

Nineteenth-century Britain witnessed a dramatic increase in its town population, as a hitherto largely rural economy transformed itself into an urban one.

Der Bergbau hat Deutschland über Jahrtausende geprägt – von den ersten prähistorischen Feuersteinminen bis hin zu den imposanten Kohlezechen der Moderne.

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

The peoples of the British Isles gave to the world the foundations on which modern manufacturing economies are built.

This sixth volume in the European Festival Studies series stems from a joint conference (Venice, 2013) between the Society for European Festivals Research and the European Science Foundation's PALATIUM project.

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.

The seventeenth century witnessed profound reforms in the way French cities administered poor relief and charitable health care.

Based on the author's long experience in academic life and the public realm, especially in foreign policy, this book argues that a single categoric classification of cities is inadequate, and that cities have had different and varied impacts and positions throughout the history of civilization.

This volume is a pioneering excursion into the documentary history of a region of northern Ontario.

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

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

Policing Suspicion is an innovative examination of policing practices and the impact of these on patterns of arrest and prosecution in London, 1780-1850.

Die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika – ein Land der Freiheit, Unabhängigkeit und Chancen.

The rapid eclipse of Chartism, and the relative tranquility of the period 1848-67 has been one of the most enduring puzzles of nineteenth-century British history.

Originally published in 1962, this book analyses and assesses the Swedish Government and structure of both trade unions and employers' organizations, including the spread of unionism to white-collar workers.

The Kahans from Baku is the saga of a Russian Jewish family.

The purpose of this volume is to provide a conspectus of current research on the history of guilds and corporations in Italy in the period from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century.