Ebook: Empire of guns: the violent making of the industrial revolution
Author: Galton Samuel, Satia Priya
- Tags: Armas de fuego--Industria y comercio--Historia--Gran Bretaña, Historia económica--Gran Bretaña, Industria de armas--Historia--Gran Bretaña, Revolución industrial--Historia--Gran Bretaña, Biography, Galton Samuel -- 1753-1832 -- Crítica e interpretación, Armas de fuego -- Industria y comercio -- Historia -- Gran Bretaña, Historia económica -- Gran Bretaña, Revolución industrial -- Historia -- Gran Bretaña, Industria de armas -- Historia -- Gran Bretaña, Gran Bretaña -- Historia -- 1714-1837
- Year: 2018
- Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
- City: Gran Bretaña
- Language: English
- epub
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 of The 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...
"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 of The 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...
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