The Industrial Revolution in World History

Now in its fifth edition, this book explores the ways in which the industrial revolution reshaped world history, covering the international factors...

DescriptionThe industrial revolution stands out as a key event not simply in British history, but in world history, ushering in as it did a new era...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Industrial RevolutionThe Industrial Revolution which took place in Great Britain between the middle of the eighteenth century and th...

Reducere. Explore the Captivating History of the Industrial RevolutionFor most of human existence, people lived in a somewhat similar fashion. Everything tha...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Eric HobsbawmEditor: Chris WrigleyPremier historian Eric Hobsbawm's brilliant study of the Industrial Revolution, which sol...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Carole MarshThe words industrial revolution often make us think of greasy, sooty men working on enormous machines making in...

Reducere. In a world of supercomputers, genetic engineering, and fiber optics, technological creativity is ever more the key to economic success. But why are...

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 a...

A unique photographic history of black people in the British Isles published in association with Getty Images. Includes moments from the industrial...

Why are we speaking English? Replenishing the Earth gives a new answer to that question, uncovering a 'settler revolution' that took place from the...

We are in the heart of a fascinating era in human evolution, when technological progress is challenging the human role in work and society. Even in...

Reducere. In this new edition of his classic history on revolution and economic development in Europe, David Landes reasserts his original arguments in the l...

Offering a fresh look at trade during the second industrial revolution, Global Markets Transformed describes a world of commodities on the move--wh...

In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent liberal industrial Lord Leverhulme bought - lock, stock and barrel - the Hebrid...

This book is an overview of plans, maps, and occasionally map-views of great cities all over the world. It follows the development of the city plan...

Reducere. DescriptionAndover, geographically one of the largest townships in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, has a long and illustrious history. Founded m...

Reducere. Explore an illustrated history of the world through timelines for kids. From dinosaurs and Vikings to the history of robots and espionage, discover...

In an accessible and timely work of scholarship, celebrated historian Joshua B. Freeman tells the story of the factory and examines how it has refl...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charles MorrisIn the first few decades of the nineteenth century, America went from being a largely rural economy, with lit...

Reducere. At a time when food is becoming increasingly scarce in many parts of the world and food prices are skyrocketing, no industry is more important than...

Capital, as Marx once wrote, comes into the world "dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt." He might well have been descr...

DescriptionThe groundbreaking history of how climate change transformed Europe and the world, from a renowned archaeologist -- updated with a new p...

DescriptionOf the more than one hundred books that H. G. Wells published in his lifetime, this is one of the most ambitious. Spanning the origins o...

Reducere. From dinosaurs and Vikings to the history of robots and espionage, discover incredible world history in this lavish collection of timelines. Jam-pa...

Reducere. In the early 1900s, Frank Lloyd Wright transformed a small midwestern prairie community into one of the world s most important architectural destin...

Reducere. Discover Queen Liliuokalani, The Hawaiian Kingdom's Last Monarch... The 1800's, particularly the latter half of that century, was a time full of ch...

A revised and expanded edition of the bestselling parody that includes thirty-pages of new text, photos, and contemporary subjects--a clever and fr...

Reducere. DescriptionThe story of Waterville and its surrounds is one of astonishingly rapid growth and prosperity. The city flourished on the wave of the Se...

Reducere. Waging War: Conflict, Culture, and Innovation in World History provides a wide-ranging examination of war in human history, from the beginning of t...

Reducere. Told in gentle rhyming verse, this beautiful non-fiction picture book follows the story of an oak tree on a hilltop as it witnesses life changing a...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Extremely wide-ranging and well researched . . . In a tradition of protest literature rooted more in ...

Reducere. Pres. George Washington authorized Springfield Armory to begin manufacturing small arms for the US military in 1794. Over nearly two centuries unti...

DescriptionThe Long Nineteenth Century, 1750-1914 is a global history textbook with a difference. It is a guide for students to the actions and exp...

Reducere. Buffalo's appreciation for a frosty pint stretches back more than a century before anyone enjoyed a cold one with a basket of wings. By the middle ...

Reducere. An eBook in .pdf format is available at: newworldeconomics.com. In this sequel to Gold: the Once and Future Money, Lewis describes in greater depth...

CATCH THE EXPRESS TO SUCCESS WITH FAST TRACK: U.S. History Covering the most important material taught in high school American history class, Fast ...

Reducere. In his treatise on European economic history (The Servile State, 1912) Hilaire Belloc explores the many failings of the Capitalist system. He expla...

Reducere. DescriptionAn automotive and tech world insider investigates the quest to develop and perfect the driverless car--an innovation that promises to be...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this ambitious and provocative text, environmental historian Ted Steinberg offers a sweeping history of the United States--a history ...

Reducere. The City: A World History tells the story of the rise and development of urban centers from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It begins wi...

DescriptionIn the late 1630s, Andrea Stuart's earliest known maternal ancestor set sail from England, lured by the promise of the New World, to set...

Explore the Captivating Life of Thomas EdisonThomas Edison was born into a hard-working but attentive family. He struggled in school and became dea...

Reducere. Full of incredible tales of achievement and ingenuity, Engineers celebrates the greatest engineers that ever lived and the stamp they have left on ...

Reducere. The Making of New World Slavery argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of p...

Join our protagonist Prince Braxton as he blazes a sizzling trail from the 1860s to the 1960s, the most dynamic 100 years in history, a century of ...

Reducere. In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decrea...

The conquest of the Americas inaugurated the slow accumulation of resources and the imperceptible structural transformations that culminated in the...

Reducere. At the turn of the 20th century, the Haight-Ashbury first gained prominence as the gateway to Golden Gate Park; six decades later, it would anchor ...

Against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution, an extraordinary circle of fossilists struggled to make sense of a mysterious, prehistoric world...

Reducere. Creating an identity is crucial for survival, whether of individuals, countries or commercial products. Carefully selected elements combine positiv...

DescriptionSince the Reagan Revolution of the early 1980s, Republicans have consistently championed tax cuts for individuals and businesses, regard...

Reducere. The Morris Canal was not the longest canal in the world, but it did have one superlative to its credit�it climbed higher than any other canal ever ...

Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, when for centuries the Chinese, ...

DescriptionIf you have any interest in information graphics, maps, or history, you know of the seminal flow map of Napoleon's 1812 march into Russi...

Reducere. 'This is as essential reference to anyone in the field of housing, beautifully illustrated in the hand of the author.' --Moshe Safdie and Associate...

Reducere. Oil palms are ubiquitous--grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role i...

Reducere. Award NamePulitzer PrizeAward categoryHistoryBetween 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression ...

Reducere. Explore the Captivating Life of Nikola Tesla Obsessive, brilliant, and tortured, Nikola Tesla was lauded for his invention of the alternating curre...

Reducere. Seeds of Wealth is a collection of elegant essays focusing on the economic and cultural consequences of the exploitation of timber, tobacco, rubber...

Reducere. Economic growth since the Industrial Revolution has been achieved at great cost both to the natural environment and to the autonomy of communities....

Reducere. A world away from the bustle of Manhattan, College Point, Queens, boasts one of the most interesting histories of any New York City neighborhood. C...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes Fawcett's accounts of his own expeditions *Profiles all the theories surrounding the expedition's disappear...

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attrib...

Reducere. The Story of Climate Change introduces one of the most important issues facing our world today, and tells you what you can do to help make a change...

Courtier to the Crowd is the full-length biography of the public relations pioneer Ivy Ledbetter Lee.This book traces the story of Lee through his ...

Reducere. When he left England in 1630 in search of religious freedom and opportunity during the Great Migration to the New World, pilgrim Edward Fitz Randol...

Reducere. When he left England in 1630 in search of religious freedom and opportunity during the Great Migration to the New World, pilgrim Edward Fitz Randol...

IBM is heir to all the ideas for innovative ciphering machines of the past. From granite blocks used to tell time, to beads used for accounting pur...

Reducere. We seek the establishment of a democracy of individual participation governed by two central aims: that the individual share in those social decisi...

The Shropshire market town of Shrewsbury, lying on the River Severn, was an important center of the wool trade in medieval England and its prosperi...