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Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution

Name: Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution
ISBN: 9780735221871

Priya Satia

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By a prize-winning young historian, an authoritative work that reframes the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire, and emergence of industrial capitalism by presenting them as inextricable from the gun trade
"A fascinating and important glimpse into how violence fueled the industrial revolution, Priya Satia's book stuns with deep scholarship and sparkling prose."—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofThe Emperor of All Maladies
We have long understood the Industrial Revolution as a triumphant story of innovation and technology. Empire of Guns, a rich and ambitious new book by award-winning historian Priya Satia, upends this conventional wisdom by placing war and Britain's prosperous gun trade at the heart of the Industrial Revolution and the state's imperial expansion.
Satia brings to life this bustling industrial society with the story of a scandal: Samuel Galton of Birmingham, one of Britain's...

Категорії:

History - Military History

Рік:

2018

Видавництво:

Penguin Publishing Group;Penguin Press

Мова:

english

ISBN 10:

0735221871

ISBN 13:

9780735221871