Fire had always been one of the greatest threats to an early modern British society that relied on the naked flame as the prime source of heating, lighting and

Fire had always been one of the greatest threats to an early modern British society that relied on the naked flame as the prime source of heating, lighting and

This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the be

A New York Times–bestselling account of the next great economic era, with a look into the individuals pioneering its implementation around the world. One of t

In Rethinking the Industrial Revolution: Five Centuries of Transition from Agrarian to Industrial Capitalism in England, Michael Andrew Žmolek offers the first