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Empire of guns : the violent making of the Industrial Revolution / Priya Satia.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 528 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781503610828
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HD9744 .E475 2018
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Contents:
Who made guns? -- The state and the gun industry, part 2 : 1756-1815 -- The state, war, and industrial revolution -- Interlude : a brief lesson from African history -- Guns and money -- Guns in arms, part 1 : home -- Guns in Arms, part 2 : abroad -- Interlude : a brief account of the Society of Friends -- Galton's disownment -- The gun trade after 1815 -- Opposition to the gun trade after 1815 -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Subject: "This ambitious book reframes the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire, and emergence of industrial capitalism by presenting them as inextricable from the gun trade"--
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction HD9744.553 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1107837133

The state and the gun industry, part 1 : 1688-1756 -- Who made guns? -- The state and the gun industry, part 2 : 1756-1815 -- The state, war, and industrial revolution -- Interlude : a brief lesson from African history -- Guns and money -- Guns in arms, part 1 : home -- Guns in Arms, part 2 : abroad -- Interlude : a brief account of the Society of Friends -- Galton's disownment -- The gun trade after 1815 -- Opposition to the gun trade after 1815 -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

"This ambitious book reframes the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire, and emergence of industrial capitalism by presenting them as inextricable from the gun trade"--

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