An overview of 21st century industrial archaeology work in Europe, north America, and Australasia

What is it about?

Representing the first substantial international overview of Industrial Archaeology in a decade, this volume comes at a time when the global impact of industrialisation is being re-assessed in terms of its legacy of climate change, mechanisation, urbanisation, and labour relations. Critical debates around the beginning of a new geological era – The Anthropocene – have emerged over the last decade. Their central focus interrogates the widespread exploitation of natural resources that underpin industrialisation from its early emergence in 18th century northern Europe to its contemporary ubiquity across our globalised world.

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