Through international and multi-period chapters, this volume explores the origins and development of industrialization from its emergence in 18th century Europe to its contemporary ubiquity. It interrogates the widespread exploitation of natural resources that forged industrialization and its environmental and social legacy in our globalized world.

Eleanor Conlin Casella is a historical archaeologist, with particular expertise in colonial and industrial archaeology. Currently a Professor at the University of Tasmania, her work primarily focuses on 19th century institutional sites within their wider global historic contexts.
Michael Nevell is the Industrial Heritage Support Officer for England, based at the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, and an Honorary Research Fellow in Industrial Archaeology at the University of Salford. He was also the founding Head of Archaeology at the Centre for Applied Archaeology, University of Salford (2009-2020).
Hanna Steyne is an archaeologist with expertise in maritime, industrial, and post-medieval archaeology. She has worked on archaeological sites on land and in the inter-tidal zone, and as a qualified commercial diver and has also led research on sites underwater dating from the prehistoric to the modern period.

• 1: Paul A. Shackel: Introduction: The Past Made Public


• 2: Colin Rynne: Water Power


• 3: Ian West: The Gas Industry


• 4: Vicki Cummings and David Robinson: An Archaeology of Nuclear Power: Monuments of the Atomic Age


• 5: David Gwyn: Slate Production


• 6: Marilyn Palmer and Michael Nevell: The Archaeology of the British Coal Industry


• 7: Susan Lawrence: Gold Rush Archaeology: Gold and Silver Mining Around the Pacific Rim


• 8: Marilyn Palmer: . Non-ferrous Metal Mining and Processing in Industrial Britain


• 9: Chris Dalglish: Enclosure: A Living Historical Process


• 10: Sean Winter and Alistair Paterson: Australian Colonial Land Settlement


• 11: Peter Davies: Timber


• 12: Roger N. Holden: Textiles: Cotton


• 13: Colin Rynne: The Linen and Wool Industries in Britain and Ireland


• 14: Martin Gibbs: Maritime Industry: Whaling


• 15: Ian Miller: 'A Fruit of the Art of Fire': The Glass Industry in Britain


• 16: Amber Patrick and Hanna Steyne: Food Processing


• 17: Michael Nevell: Mechanical Engineering and the Integrated Engineering Works


• 18: Eleanor Conlin Casella: Ceramic Production


• 19: Paul Collins: British Car Factories since 1896: An Industrial Archaeology Site Type Survey Case Study


• 20: Michael Nevell: The Archaeology of the Iron and Steel Industries in Britain


• 21: Fredric L. Quivik: Butte and Anaconda, Montana: Industrial Waste as Industrial Heritage


• 22: Geoff Timmins: Roads and Bridges


• 23: David Gwyn: Railways


• 24: Hanna Steyne and Nigel Crowe: Canals and Inland Waterways


• 25: Richard Newman and Hanna Steyne: Ports and Shipping


• 26: Nigel Linge: Global Communications, 1561 to 2016


• 27: Michael Nevell: Warehouses c. 1770 to 1914


• 28: Nigel Jeffries: Ceramics and Pottery: The Enduring Appeal of the Willow Pattern Print


• 29: Eleanor Conlin Casella and Samantha Bolton: Food Storage


• 30: Penny Crook: Commodities and Consumption


• 31: Michael Nevell: Industrial Workers' Housing in Britain


• 32: Angela Connelly: Churches and Chapels


• 33: Julie Rugg: The Industrial Archaeology of the Burial Landscape


• 34: Gordon S. Marino: A Celebration of Growth, Independence, and Worth: Symbolism and Functionality in Pools for Developing Industrial Communities


• 35: Maria Turk: Mechanics' Institutes in Britain and Ireland


• 36: Andrew Davison: Bars, Public Houses, and Saloons


• 37: Andrew Davison: Temperance


• 38: Eleanor Conlin Casella and Katherine Fennelly: Social Welfare Institutions


• 39: Wayne D. Cocroft: Industrialised Conflict


• 40: John Schofield: The Cold War: Archaeologies of Protest and Opposition


• 41: Marika Hyttinen and Titta Kallio-Seppä: They Were Here Too: Women and Children in Industrial Communities


• 42: Karin Larkin: The Social Life of Coal Mining


• 43: Marilyn Palmer: Conclusion: Industrial Archaeology: Past, Present and Future