The British Building Industry Since 1800

Author : Christopher G. Powell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0419207309
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Building Industry Since 1800 written by Christopher G. Powell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1996 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powell introduces and describes two centuries of building activity and the building industry, addressing such questions as why and what was built, who decided to build, and how they did so.

Author : Christopher Powell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136742697
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Building Industry since 1800 written by Christopher Powell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scholarly and well-researched study of the building industry documents the interplay of new materials and technologies, costs and the changing social and economic forces that affected the decision-making about our built environment over the last two centuries. The author provides a succinct and readable survey of the growth and development of British building which will be of interest to all building specialists and those training for a career in the construction industry.

Author : Roger Hansford
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 024420179X
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brick Bonds: A Life in Britain's Building Trade, 1902-1987 written by Roger Hansford and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-01-18 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite recent academic interest in oral history and working-class writing, few other autobiographies reveal daily life for early twentieth-century itinerant gasworks bricklayers, or 'retort-setters'. Charles Hansford recounts constructing his own home single-handedly aged twenty-one, describes economic privations and poor weather conditions. 'Brick Bonds' documents his relationships with fellow workers and specific building techniques they used (a bond is a brick-laying pattern). His personal memories of enemy action in wartime, working-class social and leisure pursuits in London, the 1924 National Building Strike, and notable ships like Titanic and Bismarck are set into historical context. Hansford reveals an evolving class awareness and trade union activism; a declared Socialist, he readily left building sites in protest, even into the 1970s. His career encompassed Fawley Refinery, Royal Netley War Hospital, British Overseas Airways Company flying-boat bases, and Harrods store in London.

Author : Christopher G. Powell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An economic history of the British building industry, 1815-1979 written by Christopher G. Powell and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Catherine Flinn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350067644
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebuilding Britain's Blitzed Cities written by Catherine Flinn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many British cities were devastated by bombing during the Second World War and faced stark economic dilemmas concerning reconstruction planning and implementation after 1945. How did politicians, civil servants and local authorities manage to produce the cities we live in today? Rebuilding Britain's Blitzed Cities examines the underlying processes and pressures, especially financial and bureaucratic, which shaped postwar urbanism in Britain. Catherine Flinn integrates architectural planning with in-depth economic and political analyses of Britain's blitzed cities for the first time. She examines early reconstruction arrangements, the postwar economic apparatus and the challenges of postwar physical planning across the country, while providing insightful case studies from the cities of Hull, Exeter and Liverpool. By addressing the ideology versus the reality of reconstruction in postwar Britain, Rebuilding Britain's Blitzed Cities highlights the importance of economic and political factors for understanding the British postwar built environment.

Author : Brian Lewis
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526101572
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British queer history written by Brian Lewis and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays takes stock of the ‘new British queer history’. It is intended both for scholars and students of British social and cultural history and of the history of sexuality, and for a broader readership interested in queer issues. In offering a snapshot of the field, this volume demonstrates the richness and promise of one of the most vibrant areas of modern British history and the complexity and breadth of discussion, debate and approach. It showcases challenging think-pieces from leading luminaries alongside some of the most original and exciting research by established and emerging young scholars. The book provides a plethora of fresh perspectives and a wealth of new information, suggests enticing avenues for research and – in bringing the whole question of sexual identity to the forefront of debate – challenges us to rethink queer history’s parameters.

Author : Ian Inkster
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135001902X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Technology written by Ian Inkster and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. It deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic - showing how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.

Author : Elizabeth McKellar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351575317
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Articulating British Classicism written by Elizabeth McKellar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whereas the past decades have seen a profound reconsideration of eighteenth-century visual culture, the architecture of that century has undergone little evaluation. Its study, unlike that of the early modern period or the twentieth century, has continued to use essentially the same methods and ideas over the last fifty years. Articulating British Classicism reconsiders the traditional historiography of British eighteenth-century architecture as it was shaped after World War II, and brings together for the first time a variety of new perspectives on British classicism in the period. Drawing on current thinking about the eighteenth century from a range of disciplines, the book examines such topics as social and gender identities, colonialization and commercialization, notions of the rural, urban and suburban, as well as issues of theory and historiography. Canonical constructions of Georgian architecture are explored, including current evaluations of the continental intellectual background, the relationship with mid seventeenth-century Stuart court classicism and the development of the subject in the twentieth century.

Author : Joel Mokyr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190282991
Total Pages : 2812 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History written by Joel Mokyr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 2812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What were the economic roots of modern industrialism? Were labor unions ever effective in raising workers' living standards? Did high levels of taxation in the past normally lead to economic decline? These and similar questions profoundly inform a wide range of intertwined social issues whose complexity, scope, and depth become fully evident in the Encyclopedia. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the field, the Encyclopedia is divided not only by chronological and geographic boundaries, but also by related subfields such as agricultural history, demographic history, business history, and the histories of technology, migration, and transportation. The articles, all written and signed by international contributors, include scholars from Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Covering economic history in all areas of the world and segments of ecnomies from prehistoric times to the present, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History is the ideal resource for students, economists, and general readers, offering a unique glimpse into this integral part of world history.

Author : Mike Murray
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405147555
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Construction Reports 1944-98 written by Mike Murray and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often said that in order to know where we are going, we need to know where we have been. For some years the construction industry has been challenged to deliver better performance in terms of value for money, timelier construction and defect free building. Behind this remodelling of an industry is Government. The interest by Government is not new, and report after report in the post war period has exhorted the industry to perform better. This book documents how Government, through influential reports, has sought to shape the performance and attitudes of parties to the construction industry. It provides a critical review of 12 of the most significant, setting these against their political, social and economic background, and offers a ready reference and critique for researchers of construction management, government and economics.