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  • The Archaeology of Industrial Cheshire in 20 Digs

    par Michael Nevell ...
    Collections series In 20 Digs
    Cheshire contains some of the earliest inland saltworks, industrial canals, and purpose-built mechanised textile mills in Britain. The region’s industrial story covers 2,000 years from the Romans to the Victorians and beyond. Drawing upon archaeological excavations over the last fifty years, this book looks at the physical remains of Cheshire’s chief industries, salt, textiles, metal working, and ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Archaeology of Ironbridge Gorge in 20 Digs

    par Michael Nevell ...
    Collections series In 20 Digs
    The Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire is one of the cradles of industrialisation. At its heart is the Iron Bridge spanning the River Severn, one of the world’s first iron bridges and an iconic image of the Industrial Revolution. The area’s role in helping to transform Britain into the world’s first industrial society earned it UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 1986. Industrialisation in and around ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology

    Modifié par Eleanor Casella, Michael Nevell, Hanna Steyne ...
    Collections series Oxford Handbooks
    Representing the first substantial English-language text on Industrial Archaeology in a decade, this handbook comes at a time when the global impact of industrialization is being re-assessed in terms of its legacy of climate change, mechanization, urbanization, the forced migration of peoples, and labour relations. Critical debates around the beginning of a new geological era - The Anthropocene - ... En savoir plus

    $95.99 CAD

  • The Archaeology of Manchester in 20 Digs

    par Michael Nevell ...
    Collections series In 20 Digs
    Manchester has always had the ability to reinvent itself. Evolving from a Roman fort to an Elizabethan linen market town and a Georgian market centre, it became the world’s largest cotton spinning town in the early nineteenth century. In the Victorian period it was a commercial, engineering and port city. After industry declined in the mid-twentieth century Manchester re-emerged as an education, ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Manchester at Work

    People and Industries Through the Years

    par Michael Nevell ...
    Collections series At Work
    Manchester is a city with an unparalleled industrial heritage. It gave the world technological innovation as well as manufacturing strength. The city’s wealth came from textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution. The great majority of cotton spinning took place in south Lancashire and north Cheshire, and Manchester was for a time the most productive centre of cotton processing in the ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

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  • The Making of the British Landscape

    How We Have Transformed the Land, from Prehistory to Today

    par Francis Pryor ...
    This is the changing story of Britain as it has been preserved in our fields, roads, buildings, towns and villages, mountains, forests and islands. From our suburban streets that still trace out the boundaries of long vanished farms to the Norfolk Broads, formed when medieval peat pits flooded, from the ceremonial landscapes of Stonehenge to the spread of the railways - evidence of how man's ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • A River with a City Problem

    A History of Brisbane Floods

    par Margaret Cook ...
    When floods devastated South East Queensland in 2011, who was to blame? Despite the inherent risk of living on a floodplain, most residents had pinned their hopes on Wivenhoe Dam to protect them, and when it failed to do so, dam operators were blamed for the scale of the catastrophic events that followed. A River with a City Problem is a compelling history of floods in the Brisbane River catchment ... En savoir plus

    $14.95 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest

    par Joan Baxter ...
    For fifty years, the pulp mill near Pictou in northern Nova Scotia has buoyed the local economy and found support from governments at all levels. But it has also pulped millions of acres of forests, spewed millions of tonnes of noxious emissions into the air, consumed quadrillions of litres of fresh water and then pumped them out again as toxic effluent into nearby Boat Harbour, and eventually ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Civil Engineering

    A Very Short Introduction

    par David Muir Wood ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Civil engineering produces the structures of all human settlements worldwide and is a vital discipline for many aspects modern life, underlying housing, transport, and our major areas and buildings related to work, study, and leisure. In this Very Short Introduction, David Muir Wood demonstrates the nature and importance of civil engineering not only in the history of civilization and urbanization ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • HTO

    Toronto's Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers and Low-flow Toilets

    Modifié par Wayne Reeves, Christina Palassio ...
    Collections series uTOpia
    Drained by a half-dozen major watersheds, cut by a network of deep ravines and fronting on a Great Lake, Toronto is dominated by water. Like most cities, though, Toronto has mismanaged its water, from the decades-long transformation of the citys creeks into sewersheds to the alteration of Torontos waterfront. Recently, the trend of fettering Torontos water and putting it underground has been ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Birth of Modern Britain

    A Journey into Britain’s Archaeological Past: 1550 to the Present

    par Francis Pryor ...
    From the author of ‘Britain BC’, ‘Britain AD’ and ‘Britain in the Middle Ages’ comes the fourth and final part in a critically acclaimed series on Britain's hidden past.The relevance of archaeology to the study of the ancient world is indisputable. But, when exploring our recent past, does it have any role to play? In ‘The Birth of Modern Britain’ Francis Pryor highlights archaeology’s continued ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • River Dreams

    The people and landscape of the Cooks River

    par Ian Tyrrell ...
    River Dreams reveals the complex history of the Cooks River in south-eastern Sydney—a river renowned as Australia's most altered and polluted. While nineteenth century developers called it "improvement," the sugar mill, tanneries, and factories that lined the banks of Sydney's Cooks River had drastic consequences for the health of the river. While much of the river has been rehabilitated in recent ... En savoir plus

    $26.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus