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  • Life and Labour in Newfoundland

    Based on Lectures delivered at the Memorial University of Newfoundland

    par Charles Fay ...
    Collections series Heritage
    This study of Newfoundland is a brilliant combination of first-hand observation, and of research into fascinating source materials. Professor Fay made tours of Newfoundland and of Labrador and examined documentary material in London and the West Country. Both his observations and his source-material are fresh and stimulating, and he writes in his usual lively provocative style.Professor Fay ... En savoir plus

    $30.39 CAD

  • Round About Industrial Britain, 1830-1860

    par Charles Fay ...
    Collections series Heritage
    Here is a description of a lively and unusual tour of industrial Britain in the period which reached its public climax in the Great Exhibition of 1851. Professor Fay sets his tour in the heart of the "stream of industrial invention" in the fields of metals, machinery, transportation, and industrial arts such as spinning, weaving, and paper-making. We travel with him through the industrial sections ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

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  • The Lunar Men

    The Inventors of the Modern World 1730-1810

    par Jenny Uglow ...
    Led by Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters, tradesmen and artisans who met and made friends in the Midlands in the 1760s. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the centre of things, but they were young and their optimism was boundless: together they would change the world. Among them were the ambitious toy-maker Matthew ... En savoir plus

    $14.39 CAD

  • The Great Stink of London

    Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis

    par Stephen Halliday ...
    'An extraordinary history' - Peter Ackroyd, The Times'A lively account of (Bazalgette's) magnificent achievements. . . graphically illustrated' - Hermione Hobhouse'Halliday is good on sanitary engineering and even better on cloaca, crud and putrefaction . . . (he) writes with the relish of one who savours his subject and has deeply researched it. . . splendidly illustrated' - Ruth Rendell... ... En savoir plus

    $18.39 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Radical Potter

    Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain

    par Tristram Hunt ...
    *Longlisted for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History, 2022*A spectacular biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitionist and beacon of the Industrial Revolution, from acclaimed historian and Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tristram HuntJosiah Wedgwood, perhaps the greatest English potter who ever lived, epitomized the best of his age. From his kilns and ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Portrait of an Industrial City: 'Clanging Belfast' 1750-1914

    par Stephen A Royle ...
    Clanging: Belfast in its industrial pomp must have been noisy: shipyards manipulating sheets of metal, the constant riveting being only one source of racket; the endless clatter from linen mills, the screeching of trams on unyielding rails, sirens and hooters marking time at the factories. There were steam trains and steam engines in addition to horses' hooves beating on the streets. The ... En savoir plus

    $10.69 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Iron, Steam & Money

    The Making of the Industrial Revolution

    par Roger Osborne ...
    In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history. Inventors, industrialists and entrepreneurs ushered in the age of powered machinery and the factory, and thereby changed the whole of human society, bringing into being new methods of social and economic organisation, new social classes, and new political forces. The Industrial ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Impact of the Domestic Linen Industry in Ulster

    par W.H. Crawford ...
    The domestic linen industry left an indelible imprint on Ulster history. It was introduced by colonists from the north of England in the seventeenth century, before the arrival of the Huguenots, and encouraged by the landlords to improve their rentals.Earnings from raising flax, spinning yarn and weaving cloth, provided farming families with regular incomes that enabled them to lease small farms ... En savoir plus

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  • Iron Men

    How One London Factory Powered the Industrial Revolution and Shaped the Modern World

    par David Waller ...
    In the early nineteenth century, Henry Maudslay, an engineer from a humble background, opened a factory in Westminster Bridge Road, Lambeth, a stone’s throw from the Thames. Maudslay invented precision engineering, which made the industrial revolution possible, helping Great Britain become the workshop of the world.He developed mass production, interchangeable components, and built the world’s ... En savoir plus

    $28.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Dragons

    Ten Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain

    par Liam Byrne ...
    Britain's rise to global dominance from the 16th century owed as much to the vision and creativity of traders, industrialists and bankers as it did to wars of conquest fought by military men.DRAGONS tells the story of British business endeavour through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England's economy via trade with the New World, Liam Byrne ... En savoir plus

    $12.79 CAD

  • The Radical Potter

    The Life and Times of Josiah Wedgwood

    par Tristram Hunt ...
    From one of Britain’s leading historians and the director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, a scintillating biography of Josiah Wedgwood, the celebrated eighteenth-century potter, entrepreneur, and abolitionistWedgwood’s pottery, such as his celebrated light-blue jasperware, is famous worldwide. Jane Austen bought it and wrote of it in her novels; Empress Catherine II of Russia ordered hundreds of ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The Other Famine

    The 1822 Crisis in County Leitrim

    par Gerard MacAtasney ...
    In the summer of 1822 a bad potato crop and limited employment opportunities created famine conditions in the west and south-west of Ireland. The Other Famine is the first book to examine these events, and specifically their implications for County Leitrim. Beginning with an overview of life in the county from 1800 to 1821, this book looks at landlord–tenant relationships, the standard of living ... En savoir plus

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