Empire of Guns
লেখক / Author: Priya Satia
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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…
Publisher: Prelude Books
Pages: 544
Language: en
ISBN-13: 9780715653067
ISBN-10: 0715653067