Empire of Guns. The violent making of the Industrial Revolution
Details:
- Author(s) Satia, Priya
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2018
- Pages 528pp; illus
- Publisher Stanford University Press
- Place Published Stanford CA
Topics:
- Name Faith & ethnicity
- Name Government procurement
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
Notes:
Winner of the Wadsworth Prize for Business History, 2018. Scholarly work which 'reframes' the British industrial revolution, placing it within a framework of military contracting which supplied the forces - armed and civil - which waged war and colonized the globe between 1688 and 1815. The account is developed, inter alia, through the life and contradictions of Samuel Galton of Farmer & Galton of Birmingham, gunmaker and Quaker. Sections include: A] 'Industrial life of guns - the state and the gun industry', Part I, 1688-1756: 'Who made guns?' / 'The state and the gun industry', Part II, 1756-1815: 'The state, war, and industrial revolution' B] 'The Social Life of Guns' - 'Interlude - A brief lesson from African history' / 'Guns and money' / 'Guns in arms', Part I, home: 'Guns in arms', Part II, abroad; C] 'The Moral Life of Guns' - 'Interlude - A brief account of the Society of Friends' / 'Galton's disownment' / 'The gun trade after 1815' / 'Opposition to the gun trade after 1815'