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Ruthless: A New History of Britain's Rise to Wealth and Power, 1660-1800
By Edmond Smith
Hardcover
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By Edmond Smith
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A revelatory new history of Britain’s industrial revolution and the exploitation that enabled it
Was Britain’s industrial revolution the result of its machines, which produced goods with miraculous efficiency? Was it the country’s natural abundance, which provided coal for its engines, ores for its furnaces and food for its labourers? Or was it Britain’s colonies, where a brutalized enslaved workforce produced cotton for its factories?
Acclaimed historian Edmond Smith shows how the world’s ...
Was Britain’s industrial revolution the result of its machines, which produced goods with miraculous efficiency? Was it the country’s natural abundance, which provided coal for its engines, ores for its furnaces and food for its labourers? Or was it Britain’s colonies, where a brutalized enslaved workforce produced cotton for its factories?
Acclaimed historian Edmond Smith shows how the world’s ...