Industrialisation and industrial history

In popular retellings of American history, capitalism generally doesn't feature much as part of the founding or development of the nation.

The extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America loses war after war and as one industry after another loses its technological edge.

Neoliberalism is dead.

The Ottoman Empire went through rapid economic and social development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as it approached its end.

The Ottoman Empire went through rapid economic and social development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as it approached its end.

The contradictions of modernisation run through the whole of modern Chinese history.

The contradictions of modernisation run through the whole of modern Chinese history.

The Industrial Workers of the World is a union unlike any other.

The Industrial Workers of the World is a union unlike any other.

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.

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.

Andrea Komlosy argues in this important intervention that, when we examine it closely, work changes its meanings according to different historical and regional contexts.

Few would dispute that many Western industrial democracies undertook extensive deregulation in the 1970s and 1980s.

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

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

Dark satanic mills, cobbled streets and cholera have become common shorthand for the nineteenth-century British town.

Dark satanic mills, cobbled streets and cholera have become common shorthand for the nineteenth-century British town.

Over the past decade American labor has faced a tidal wave of wage cuts, plant closures and broken strikes.

An illustrated introduction to how British industries, supported by thousands of newly recruited women, strove to meet the nation's wartime need for munitions, armour, shipping, uniforms and aircraft.

An illustrated introduction to how British industries, supported by thousands of newly recruited women, strove to meet the nation's wartime need for munitions, armour, shipping, uniforms and aircraft.

Have you ever watched wagon after wagon of a goods train thunder past and wondered where it is heading, what it is carrying, and how it works its way between the passenger services?

Have you ever watched wagon after wagon of a goods train thunder past and wondered where it is heading, what it is carrying, and how it works its way between the passenger services?

Victorian pumping stations are colourful cathedrals of utility.

Victorian pumping stations are colourful cathedrals of utility.

Matchbox toys were ubiquitous items for children across the Western world.

Matchbox toys were ubiquitous items for children across the Western world.

A beautifully illustrated guide to the trains that took over as the Age of Steam was drawing to a close in the 1950s.

A beautifully illustrated guide to the trains that took over as the Age of Steam was drawing to a close in the 1950s.

An illustrated history of Britain's coal mines and the lives of the miners who worked in them.

An illustrated history of Britain's coal mines and the lives of the miners who worked in them.

The iron industry was the catalyst for the Industrial Revolution, producing a vital source of iron without which none of the great engineering achievements of the Victorian age would have been possible.

The iron industry was the catalyst for the Industrial Revolution, producing a vital source of iron without which none of the great engineering achievements of the Victorian age would have been possible.

Back cover: A dram of fine scotch can transport us to Scotland Highlands or Lowlands, coast or island from anywhere in the world.

This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England.

From the monarchical terror of the Middle Ages to the mangled Europe of the twenty-first century, A People's History of Modern Europe tells the history of the continent through the deeds of those whom mainstream history tries to forget.

From the monarchical terror of the Middle Ages to the mangled Europe of the twenty-first century, A People's History of Modern Europe tells the history of the continent through the deeds of those whom mainstream history tries to forget.

This is the history of the world, from the origins of the Cosmos to the present day, seen through three major narratives: work, sex and power - the forces that have done more than any other to shape the world as we see it now.

This is the history of the world, from the origins of the Cosmos to the present day, seen through three major narratives: work, sex and power - the forces that have done more than any other to shape the world as we see it now.

Discover the diversity and depth of German culture and identityCultural roots and national identities are becoming increasingly important.

Part One includes an overview of early disasters, multiple fatalities, from 1710.

From hauling the first non-stop express from London to Edinburgh in 1928 and breaking the 100mph barrier in 1934, to being sold in 1963, and to its final home at the York National Railway Centre, The Flying Scotsman has a rich and, at times, controversial history.

BEA was formed in 1946 and took over most UK domestic and European routes under the British government's nationalisation policy.

Britain's year-long miners' strike against the Thatcher administration is vividly recounted in this diary of one of its most vocal leaders.

BEA was formed in 1946 and took over most UK domestic and European routes under the British government's nationalisation policy.

From hauling the first non-stop express from London to Edinburgh in 1928 and breaking the 100mph barrier in 1934, to being sold in 1963, and to its final home at the York National Railway Centre, The Flying Scotsman has a rich and, at times, controversial history.

Part One includes an overview of early disasters, multiple fatalities, from 1710.

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

This book deals with the history of the working class in twentieth-century Ireland through a close examination of three Cork factories (Irish Steel, Sunbeam Wolsey and the Ford Marina Plant) and the men and men who worked therein.

A commercial and defensive federation of merchant guilds based in harbour towns along the North Sea and Baltic coasts, the Hanseatic League eventually dominated maritime trade in Northern Europe and spread its influence much further afield.

A commercial and defensive federation of merchant guilds based in harbour towns along the North Sea and Baltic coasts, the Hanseatic League eventually dominated maritime trade in Northern Europe and spread its influence much further afield.