{ "item_title" : "The History of Birmingham", "item_author" : [" Auke", "Yahia Fathy", "Skriuwer Com "], "item_description" : "How did a muddy market town become the Workshop of the World? This book tells the raw, riveting history of Birmingham, where metal trades sparked a global revolution, canal networks rewrote the rules of commerce, and steam power changed everything. It's the story of a city that didn't just join the Industrial Revolution but built it.Starting with Iron Age tribes and Roman roads, this book traces the unbroken thread of innovation that turned Birmingham into a global manufacturing powerhouse. You'll follow the rise of precision metal trades, nails, guns, and buttons, that made tiny workshops more productive than entire nations. The daring canal network that slashed transport costs and fueled explosive growth before the railways arrived. Watt, Boulton, and Murdoch turning the city into the epicenter of steam power. The cholera epidemics and Chartist movements that exposed the cost of unchecked industrial growth. And Joseph Chamberlain's radical civic vision that tore down slums, municipalized gas and water, and essentially invented modern city government. Charles Dickens called Birmingham a labyrinth of dirt, soot, and fog. This book shows how the city defied that reputation and forged its own destiny.What's inside: From Iron Age to Tudor workshops: how Roman roads, Norman lords, and medieval market towns laid the foundations for an industrial titanThe metal trades that changed the world: how Birmingham's nail makers, gunsmiths, and button manufacturers built a factory floor that outpaced entire nationsCanals and steam: the daring canal network that conquered distance, and how Watt, Boulton, and Murdoch turned Birmingham into the beating heart of the Industrial RevolutionVictorian grit: surviving cholera, leading the Chartist movement, and the human cost of building the world's first industrial cityChamberlain's civic revolution: how one radical mayor tore down slums, municipalized utilities, and invented the model for modern city governmentReader review: This finally explains why Birmingham mattered globally, not just nationally. The chapter on the canals versus railways debate completely changed how I think about the Industrial Revolution. Chamberlain's story alone is worth the price. Best Birmingham history I've read, and I've read a few. Dr. Eleanor R.This book is for locals curious about the streets beneath their feet, history readers tired of London-centric stories, and anyone who wants to understand how canal networks, metal workshops, and one stubborn city reshaped the modern world.Order your copy today.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/831/476/9798314764886_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "12.99", "online_price" : "12.99", "our_price" : "12.99", "club_price" : "12.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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