Name: Empire of Guns (en Inglés)
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Author: Priya Satia
ISBN: 9780715653050

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Prelude

Autor

Priya Satia

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

544

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780715653050

Empire of Guns (en Inglés)

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'Fascinating... this book is a triumph' GuardianThe revolutionary new understanding of how the gun trade facilitated the expansion of the British Empire and changed the course of world history. History teaches that from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century the industrial revolution transformed Britain from an agricultural and artisanal economy to one dominated by industry and machine, ushering in unprecedented growth in technology and trade and putting the country at the centre of the world. In Empire of Guns, prize-winning historian Priya Satia argues that far from the bucolic image of cotton mills that define popular perception the true root of economic and imperial expansion was the lucrative military contracting that enabled the country s near-constant state of war. Through in-depth research, Satia elucidates this story through the life of prominent British gun-maker and Quaker, Samuel Galton. Reconciling the pacifist tenet of his faith with the pragmatism of the times, he argued that the inescapable profitability of conflict meant all members of an industrialised economy were irrefutably complicit in war. Through his story, and a detailed study of the British gun trade, Satia illuminates the nation s emergence as a global superpower, the roots of the government s role in economic development, and the origins of our era s debates about gun control.Empire of Guns expertly brings to life a bustling industrial society with a human story at its heart to offer a radically new understanding of a critical historical moment and all that followed from it.***PRAISE FOR EMPIRE OF GUNS***A LA Times Book Awards finalist Fascinating New York Times 'Empire of Guns suggests that, rather than war being a historical accident unrelated to the process of industrialisation, the conflicts of the eighteenth and nineteenth century were in fact the driving forces behind the industrial revolution' BBC Radio 3, Free Thinking 'A richly researched and probing historical narrative that challenges our understanding of the engines that drove Britain s industrial revolution. With this book, Priya Satia... affirms her place as a deeply captivating and thought-provoking historian' Caroline Elkins, Pulitzer Prize winner for Imperial Reckoning '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 'An important revisionist account of the industrial revolution... a revelatory book' Sven Beckert, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Empire of Cotton Remarkable... by viewing the Industrial Revolution down the barrel of a gun, Satia reveals a whole new way to view the period' History Revealed 'Eloquent and moving... an altogether contentious historiography' Journal of Economic History