Priya Satia is the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History and Professor of British History at Stanford University. She is the author of Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East (2009), and her writing has appeared in Slate, the Financial Times, the Nation, and the Huffington Post, among other publications.
"Satia's detailed retelling of the Industrial Revolution and
Britain's relentless empire expansion notably contradicts simple
free market narratives. . . . She argues convincingly that the
expansion of the armaments industry and the government's role in it
is inseparable from the rise of innumerable associated industries
from finance to mining. . . . Fascinating."
*The New York Times*
"A fascinating study of the centrality of militarism in
18th-century British life, and how imperial expansion and arms went
hand in handThis book is a triumph."
*Guardian*
"Satia marshals an overwhelming amount of evidence to show,
comprehensively, that guns had a place at the center of every
conventional tale historians have so far told about the origins of
the modern, industrialized world. . . . Though not presented as a
political book, the implications of Satia's work are difficult to
ignore."
*The New Republic*
"Empire of Guns is an important revisionist account of the
industrial revolution, reminding us that the making of the modern
state and the making of modern capitalism were tightly intertwined.
A revelatory book."
*finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Empire of Cotton*
"A solid contribution to the history of technology and commerce,
with broad implications for the present."
*Kirkus*
"Empire of Guns boldly uncovers a history of modern violence and
its central role in political, economic, and technological
progress. As unsettling as it is bracing, it radically deepens our
understanding of the 'iron cage' of modernity."
*author of Age of Anger*
"A fascinating and important glimpse into how violence fueled the
industrial revolution, Priya Satia's book stuns with deep
scholarship and sparkling prose."
*Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All
Maladies*
"Empire of Guns is 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
introduces Samuel Galton and the economies of guns and war into the
historical equation and, with it, affirms her place as a deeply
captivating and thought-provoking historian."
*winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Imperial Reckoning*
"Sweeping and stimulating. . . . An extensively researched and
carefully crafted narrative. . . . This important book helps us to
look at British and United States history in an unconventional way
and makes for great reading."
*BookPage*
"Empire of Guns offers a sweeping revision of the history of the
origins of the industrial revolution and the nature of capitalism
itself."
*Public Books*
"A strong narrative bolstered by excellent archival research. . . .
Tremendous scholarship. . . . Satia's detailed and fresh look at
the Industrial Revolution has appeal and relevance grounded in and
reaching beyond history and social science to illuminate the
complexity of present-day gun-control debates."
*Booklist*
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