War, Firearms, and the Industrial Revolution
What drove the Industrial Revolution? According to conventional wisdom, it was individual innovation and unfettered private enterprise. According to Priya Satia, it was war-making, the production of firearms, and massive state intervention. The central figure in her new book is a Quaker gunmaker immersed in the rapidly transforming economy of eighteenth-century England.\nPriya Satia, Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution Penguin Press, 2018\nPriya Satia, \u201cWe Are All Implicated in the Gun Industry\u201d The Nation\nThe post War, Firearms, and the Industrial Revolution appeared first on KPFA.