Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution ~ Priya Satia
London: Duckworth Overlook‚ 2018‚ Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
*** First Edition ***

CONDITION NOTES

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper.

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Includes: Black & white photographs (within the text); Black & white drawings; Maps;

From the cover: “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. Reconci…

  • 9½” x 6¼”
  • (xiv) 528 pages.
  • Index.
  • Bibliography.
  • ISBN: 978-0-7156-5304-3
  • Dustwrapper over Blue boards‚ with Gilt titling to the Spine.
  • Packed Weight: 1.70 Kg.















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