The Iron Manufacture of Great Britain
Author : William Truran
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,79 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Iron
ISBN :
Author : William Truran
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,79 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Iron
ISBN :
Author : W. Truran
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 24,73 MB
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3375002203
Reprint of the original, first published in 1863.
Author : William Truran (Civil Engineer.)
Publisher :
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 24,16 MB
Release : 1855
Category :
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Author : William Truran
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 30,68 MB
Release : 1865
Category : Iron
ISBN :
Author : William TRURAN
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 20,35 MB
Release : 1855
Category :
ISBN :
Author : W. Truran
Publisher :
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 22,71 MB
Release : 1865
Category : Iron
ISBN :
Author : Herbert W. Griffiths
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 1884
Category :
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Author : George Wilkie (Civil Engineer.)
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 32,81 MB
Release : 1857
Category :
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Author : John M. Hobson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 44,22 MB
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108840825
Develops a fresh non-Eurocentric analysis of the rise and development of the global economy in the last half-millennium.
Author : Priya Satia
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 25,99 MB
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0735221871
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE By a prize-winning young historian, an authoritative work that reframes the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire, and emergence of industrial capitalism by presenting them as inextricable from the gun trade "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 We have long understood the Industrial Revolution as a triumphant story of innovation and technology. Empire of Guns, a rich and ambitious new book by award-winning historian Priya Satia, upends this conventional wisdom by placing war and Britain's prosperous gun trade at the heart of the Industrial Revolution and the state's imperial expansion. Satia brings to life this bustling industrial society with the story of a scandal: Samuel Galton of Birmingham, one of Britain's most prominent gunmakers, has been condemned by his fellow Quakers, who argue that his profession violates the society's pacifist principles. In his fervent self-defense, Galton argues that the state's heavy reliance on industry for all of its war needs means that every member of the British industrial economy is implicated in Britain's near-constant state of war. Empire of Guns uses the story of Galton and the gun trade, from Birmingham to the outermost edges of the British empire, to illuminate the nation's emergence as a global superpower, the roots of the state's role in economic development, and the origins of our era's debates about gun control and the "military-industrial complex" -- that thorny partnership of government, the economy, and the military. Through Satia's eyes, we acquire a radically new understanding of this critical historical moment and all that followed from it. Sweeping in its scope and entirely original in its approach, Empire of Guns is a masterful new work of history -- a rigorous historical argument with a human story at its heart.