Letters and Politics

Gun Manufacturing and The Industrial Revolution

Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Priya Satia about the connection of the gun manufacturing to the financial world to colonialism and also to slavery and how all these elements are still connected to the financial sector today.

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. Her new book is Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution.

 

 

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