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“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 hand…This 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. . . . Spanning four continents and three centuries, tackling the fundamental nature of industrialization and capitalism, Empire of Guns belongs to the last decade’s resurgence in so-called ‘big history’. . . . Though not presented as a political book, the implications of Satia’s work are difficult to ignore. . . . This book leaves us with the disquieting notion that guns—whether the slow and inaccurate weapons of the eighteenth century or today’s models—do more than alternately cloak or explore human inclination towards violence. They also shape it—not just at the individual level, as we are accustomed to debating, but at the societal, even civilizational or global, level as well. ‘As we make objects, they make us.’”—The New Republic“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 “A solid contribution to the history of technology and commerce, with broad implications for the present.” – Kirkus“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 “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.”—Caroline Elkins, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Imperial Reckoning“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.”—Sven Beckert, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Empire of Cotton “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.”—Pankaj Mishra, author of Age of Anger“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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About the Author
Priya Satia is a Professor of 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, and her writing has appeared in Slate, the Financial Times, The Nation, and the Huffington Post, among other publications. She received a MSc in Development Studies (Economics) at the London School of Economics and a PhD in History at the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in Stanford, California with her family.
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Product details
Hardcover: 544 pages
Publisher: Penguin Press (April 10, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735221863
ISBN-13: 978-0735221864
Product Dimensions:
6.4 x 1.6 x 9.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
3.4 out of 5 stars
7 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#223,849 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
From the subtitle, I was hopeful of new information and insight supporting the author's premise that the small arms industry drove the early decades of England's Industrial Revolution. But the many facts and events related in Chapters 1 through 3 are often so poorly laced together that this book reads like an almanac. The reader's challenge is to logically link the content of one sentence to the next. You'd have to live inside the mind of the author for those chapters to be an informative, enjoyable read.Later chapters are better, mixing social commentary with detail on the availability and expanding civilian use of guns in England, Africa, and North America, as well as uses by the military and as slave-trade barter.The Preface proposes that handguns entice persons into fatal violence, even within the family. [But who can honestly argue that antiseptic murder is not facilitated by ready access to the means? Some Second Amendment defenders may be offended, though fewer than a dozen late pages touch upon that issue.] Mysticism returns in the final page of the book with the tale of the widow Winchester's Mystery House, along with a strained historical echo on the role of Cold War arms production in Silicon Valley's technological revolution.
Many of the reviews posted here are clearly from gun rights vigilantes who haven't read the book. Or read the introduction and stopped there. Don't listen to them, this is really an intensive look at how the industrial revolution and gun design/manufacturing converged. Focusing primarily on the UK, figures like Gatlin and Galton loom large, and their stories are fascinating in the context of innovators and businessmen. Unlike the dozen or so books on this topic I have read in the past year, this author faces the philosophic/ethical issues surrounding gun manufacturing, yet still stays clear from the kind of indictment of guns, their makers and owners that the fearful band of gun rights activists imagine this book to be. Some of the chapters slug along like an academic paper... which is fine given that it is meant to be taken seriously in such a forum. But in It is in the moments, where history, gun design and existentialism come together, when the writing is quite brilliant. Highly recommended.
Previous reviews clearly come from American 2nd amendment fanatics who likely have not even read the book. This is in fact a brilliant analysis of the relationship between violence, capitalism, and industrialization in 18th century Britain. Satia uses the Birmingham gun trade as a window onto the emergence of private property relations, notions of bourgeois politeness and individuality, and the connections between state formation and the industrial revolution. This offers a powerful counter to the arguments of Mokyr and others regarding the uniquely English "culture of growth" and technological innovation, demonstrating how advances in the iron industry (essential site for experimentation with steam engines, the coking process, etc.) were driven by a network of public-private partnerships designed to produce matériel for warfare and colonization. The first couple of chapters on gun production are perhaps overly detailed; the payoff for part 1 comes in the stunning chapter 4. Parts 2+3 are truly genius and bring study of the industrial revolution to a new level of insight and sophistication.
I really thought the book was mostly a waste of time. It was well written but buy an Indian who really didn’t understand American gun issues. She tried to relate American issues to those of India and the two are hardly related. Save your time and money.
By Priya Satia, PhD, a Stanford History teacher, the details documented in this book are mind numbing. It is, as a documentary of historical fact, an outstanding, detailed piece of history. Aside from the fact where she starts with one of her own ancestors shooting (and regretfully) and killing a relative, she states her ancestor was changed (corrupted?) by the (hand) gun.The tactics employed by the English Crown to ensure a steady supply of arms for their wars (the violence), was to fragment the (government) contracting. Something being done to this day in all "civilized" countries - USA included.Aside from her discourse on her ancestor being changed by the gun, that is about the end of it in regards to politics. It IS an excellent discourse of the history of British gun making, population control and how gun making grew up concurrently with the industrial revolution, sometimes driving it, sometimes benefitting from it. She gives excellent examples of warfare but seems somewhat puzzled at how the firearm was used (not used) during that period of history she writes about. She does write and hints at the cultural differences between colonists and the Native Americans, concept of property rights and the defense of same even noting hardly justifiable uses of firearms and the complete assumption of power in their use and applications, not always in a just and prudent manner. Kind of like today.As a History book, I give it 5 stars but I have to add it gives new meaning to PhD (piled higher and deeper)As a political book in support of or in derision of the American 2nd Amendment, it is at best a fraction of a star.
I bought this hoping for a factual, historical review of how guns and their manufacture affected England and the New World. Unfortunately, while there are a few interesting parts, the entire book is flavored by the author’s intensive bias against guns and the right to have them. At one point, the book reads like an outline for the Brady campaign, complaining about the NRA and attacking the Supreme Court for ruling that the right to keep and bear arms is an individual right. Not only does this opinionated prejudice poison what might be an otherwise decent book, but she gets legal and factual issues confused in her analysis. I will not go into this, but perhaps the author should read the Federalist Papers, or at least the Heller Supreme Court decision. In any case, I was deeply disappointed in this book. I miss when historical writing was largely non-political.
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