TY  - BOOK
AU  - Priya Satia
TI  - Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution
SN  - 9780715653050
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Stanford
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Firearms industry and trade
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Industrial revolution
KW  - War
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Industrial policy
KW  - Colonies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -