(Paperback)
By: Roger Osborne
ISBN: 9781845952129
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2014
UK Publication Date: 22nd May 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history. This book tells the story of those decades, the moments of inspiration, the rivalries, skulduggery and death threats, and the tireless perseverance of the visionaries who made it all happen.
(Paperback)
By: Paul Mason
ISBN: 9780099492887
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Globalisation has created a whole new working class - and they are reliving stories that were first played out a century ago. This title tells the story of this working class alongside the history of the global labour movement, from its formation in the factories of the 1800s through its near destruction by fascism in the 1930s.
(Hardback)
By: Loren Graham
ISBN: 9780262019798
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2013
UK Publication Date: 13th September 2013
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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An expert investigates Russia's long history of technological invention followed by commercial failure and points to new opportunities to break the pattern.
(Paperback)
By: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9780262528351
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2015
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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An argument that America's economy needs a strong and innovative manufacturing sector and the jobs it creates.
(Paperback)
By: Jeffrey Rothfeder
ISBN: 9780060721855
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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The McIlhenny Co run by a family of matchless characters who believe in a rigid code of family loyalty, clings to tradition and the old ways of doing business. This book tells how, from a simple idea - the outgrowth of a handful of peppers planted on an isolated island on the Gulf of Mexico - a secretive family business emerged.
(Paperback)
By: Malcolm Harris
ISBN: 9781529430882
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley
(Hardback)
By: Malcolm Harris
ISBN: 9781529430875
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 11th May 2023
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley
(Paperback)
By: Christopher Hill
ISBN: 9781786636188
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Verso Books
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The masterful account of transformation of Britain into a modern nation by leading Marxist historian
(Hardback)
By: Kenneth E. Hendrickson
ISBN: 9780810888876
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Lewis Helfand
ISBN: 9789381182284
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
UK Publication Date: 8th June 2017
Publisher: Campfire
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A graphic history of the Industrial Revolution, ideal for classrooms and school libraries.
(Paperback)
By: William Rosen
ISBN: 9781845951351
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A history of the Industrial Revolution and the steam engine, as well as an account of how inventors first came to own and profit from their ideas and how invention itself springs forth from logic and imagination. It takes us into the human mind, explaining how 'eureka' moments occur - when the brain is most relaxed.
(Paperback)
By: Max Adams
ISBN: 9781849161732
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2010
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2010
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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The story of four maverick brothers, and a thrillingly ambitious portrait of Britain in an era of technological and political revolution.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Christian Wolmar
ISBN: 9780857890382
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
UK Publication Date: 6th November 2014
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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The epic story of the world's longest and greatest railway, as told by Britain's bestselling transport historian.
(Paperback)
By: David Alan Corbin
ISBN: 9781604864526
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2012
Publisher: PM Press
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The story of the West Virginia mine wars, as told by those who lived through it.
(Paperback)
By: Joyce L. Kornbluh
ISBN: 9781604864830
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2011
Publisher: PM Press
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(Paperback, 50th Anniversary)
By: Jeremy Brecher
ISBN: 9781629638003
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
UK Publication Date: 11th June 2020
Publisher: PM Press
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(Paperback)
By: Jeffrey T. Manuel
ISBN: 9780816694303
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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(Hardback)
By: Jeffrey T. Manuel
ISBN: 9780816694297
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2015
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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(Paperback)
By: Mr Richard Hayman
ISBN: 9780747814832
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Shows the growth of iron making from the Middle Ages, covering the importation of blast-furnace methods in the fifteenth century, the adoption of coke as a fuel in the eighteenth century, and the invention of mass-produced steel in the nineteenth century.
The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland
(Hardback)
By: Toni Gilpin
ISBN: 9781642591811
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
Publisher: Haymarket Books
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A powerful account of the epic clash between corporate greed and militant workers in the American Heartland.
The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland
(Paperback)
By: Toni Gilpin
ISBN: 9781642590333
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
Publisher: Haymarket Books
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A powerful account of the epic clash between corporate greed and militant workers in the American heartland.
(Paperback)
By: William C. Blizzard
ISBN: 9781604863000
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: PM Press
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(Hardback)
By: Denis Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9781742232416
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2011
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Kim Kelly
ISBN: 9781982171056
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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