Modern, Industrial Archaeology

ISBN: 9781407307275
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
20 papers from a conference called in celebration of the 300th anniversary of Abraham Darby's successful attempt to smelt iron ore using coke in 1709, which focus on processes of industrialization. The papers are on three broad topics: metallu... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781901992946
Published by : Museum of London Archaeology
Series: MOLAS ARCHAEOLOGY STUDIES SERIES
Volume: 22
The principal works of the Commercial Gas Company was set up in Stepney in the late 1830s and generated coal
gas until the mid 20th century. As London expanded, the Stepney Works was transformed from a tiny site in an
almost rural settin... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789549257113
Published by : American Research Center in Sofia
Written by the acclaimed Bulgarian journalist and writer Nassya
Kralevska-Owens, with introduction by Professor Mark Kramer,
Director of the Project for Cold War Studies at the Davis Center
for Russian and Eurasian St... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781870545198
Published by : Canterbury Archaeological Trust
Series: Archaeology of Canterbury
Volume: 5
This is the account of 'rescue' excavations undertaken during gravel quarrying between 1972 and 1974 at Ickham on the Little Stour river in Kent. Initially excavated by a local amateur group led by the late Jim Bradshaw, who had discovered the ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199551293
Published by : Oxford University Press
A history of mining in Britain from Prehistory to the present day, looking at the different minerals which were mined, the development of techniques and technology, and its effects on the landscape as well as the lives of miners a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781906540753
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
The transmission of wealth between generations was not only a narrative commonplace in nineteenth-century France, but also a topic of considerable cultural anxiety and intense political debate. In this study, Andrew J. Counter draws on a wealth... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503516448
Published by : Brepols
Series: Samuel Beckett's Bilingual Works
Volume: 1
Started in 1986 by Charles Krance with the permission of Samuel Beckett, this series of genetic editions provides Beckett's readers with a complete range of manuscript variants, which allows the reader to reconstruct and study the text's evolution... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503527796
Published by : Brepols
Series: Speculum musicae
Volume: 14
In this book, twenty-four scholars investigate the relationship between music and dictatorship in twentieth-century Europe and Latin America. The music is explored as a political phenomenon in fifteen nations under totalitarian regimes: Argentina,... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781598744064
Published by : Left Coast Press
This is a fascinating ethnography of critical but unrecognized producers of Irish heritage tourism. The Coach Fellas are known to almost all tourists who traverse the Irish countryside. Ostensibly bus drivers, they are also the tour guides who ... .... Learn More