A LA Times Book Awards finalist

Fascinating New York Times

'Empire of Guns suggests that, rather than war being a historical accident unrelated to the process of industrialisation, the conflicts of the eighteenth and nineteenth century were in fact the driving forces behind the industrial revolution' BBC Radio 3, Free Thinking

'A richly researched and probing historical narrative that challenges our understanding of the engines that drove Britain s industrial revolution. With this book, Priya Satia... affirms her place as a deeply captivating and thought-provoking historian' Caroline Elkins, Pulitzer Prize winner for Imperial Reckoning

'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

'An important revisionist account of the industrial revolution... a revelatory book' Sven Beckert, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Empire of Cotton

Remarkable... by viewing the Industrial Revolution down the barrel of a gun, Satia reveals a whole new way to view the period' History Revealed

'Eloquent and moving... an altogether contentious historiography' --Journal of Economic History

Priya Satia is a professor of British 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 published by OUP and her writing has appeared in the TLS, Slate, the Financial Times and Huffington Post, among other publications. She received a MSc in Development Studies (Economics) at the London School of Economics and a PhD in History at the University of California, Berkeley.

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