Edmond Smith, "Ruthless: A New History of Britain’s Rise to Wealth and Power, 1660-1800" (Yale UP, 2025)
Podcast: New Books in Economic and Business History (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Edmond Smith, "Ruthless: A New History of Britain’s Rise to Wealth and Power, 1660-1800" (Yale UP, 2025)Pub date: 2025-10-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWas 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…
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