Priya Satia
Biographic Data
| ID | 363704 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Priya Satia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Priya |
| FAMILY NAME | Satia |
| SIGNATURE | SATIA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3584-5700 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Other Republicans: Anti-Monarchical Movements in the World in the Era of America’s Independence
Two-hundred-fifty years ago, Americans rejected monarchy in favour of a republican ideology anchored in liberal ideas of the natural rights of individuals and the protection of property. But in tha...
Globalizing Europe: A History
Globalizing Europe explores modern Europe's myriad entanglements with the wider world, considering the continent not only as an engine but also as a product of global transformations. It looks at the ways in which the global movements of peoples and ideas, goods and raw materials, flora and fauna have impacted life on the continent over the centuries. Bringing together a group of leading historians, the book shows how the history of Europe can be…
The Scholarly Business of Corporations and Slavery: Political Fault Lines of the Economic History of Empire
Historians of capitalism have put monopoly corporations and slavery at the heart of the history of a political-economic system long mythologized as founded on free markets. Liberal political economic theory, presupposing and demanding a private economic realm free from state intervention that would drive world-historical progress, was partly a reaction to the long sway of corporations that collapsed distinctions between private and public. The ca…
The Forgotten Dreams of History-from-Below
In his 2003 essay, “On Agency,” Walter Johnson faulted the way scholars’ focus on agency presumed a “unidirectional trade between past and present,” treating “history writing as a mode of redress.” It marginalized “human-ness lived outside the conventions” of a “liberal notion of selfhood.” Restoring agency to the enslaved made the scholar feel better about themselves without making the world any better: “therapy rather than politics.” Looking ba…
The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age
Britain’s Culture War: Disguising Imperial Politics as Historical Debate about Empire
In step with many governments today, the current British government has consistently attacked scholarly efforts to understand imperialism and its legacies. Instead, it foists a historical narrative
How Memory of Empire Drove the Postwar Resurrection of Empire
Robert Gildea offers a masterful narrative of the British and French Empires and of how their memory—“empires of the mind”—continues to shape the world. This is a story of empire stretching from the eighteenth century to 2017 as an unbroken narrative, bridging the illusory rupture of “decolonization” after World War II—a courageous and necessary intervention. Gildea’s approach is fittingly “both comparative and entangled” (13)…
Risking a Colonial Anticolonialism
Time's Monster: How History Makes History
Time's Monster demonstrates the dramatic consequences of writing history today as much as in the past. Against the backdrop of enduring global inequalities, debates about reparations, and the crisis in the humanities, Satia's is an urgent moral voice
Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution
The state and the gun industry, part 1 : 1688-1756 -- Who made guns? -- The state and the gun industry, part 2 : 1756-1815 -- The state, war, and industrial revolution -- Interlude : a brief lesson from African history -- Guns and money -- Guns in arms, part 1 : home -- Guns in Arms, part 2 : abroad -- Interlude : a brief account of the Society of Friends -- Galton's disownment -- The gun trade after 1815 -- Opposition to the gun trade after 1815
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Empire of guns: The violent making of the Industrial Revolution
A reframing of the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire, and the emergence of industrial capitalism presents them as inextricable from the gun trade and the story of disgraced Quaker gunmaker Samuel Galton. "We have long understood the Industrial Revolution as a triumphant story of innovation and technology. [This] rich and ambitious new book by award-winning historian Priya Satia upends this conventional wisdom by placing war a…
Britain and the World: A New Field
Over the past decade, historians, journals, conferences, and even job advertisements have devoted attention to a new field of inquiry, "Britain and the world." This emergent category is far from coherent but, despite a variety of approaches, shares a common assumption that Britain's interactions with the world beyond its shores enable us to better understand the histories of both Britain and the globe. Writing the history of Britain from a compar…
Byron, Gandhi and the Thompsons: The Making of British Social History and Unmaking of Indian History
This paper explores the influence of the Indian nationalist movement on the formation of British social history by highlighting the intellectual and social bonds between key nationalists and the Thompson family (Edward Thompson and his sons Frank and E. P. Thompson). A twentieth-century preoccupation with Byron, whose Romantic views of freedom and nation were shaped by the period of colonial conquest, hangs over the joint intellectual and politic…
Centralité des marges
L'auteure soutient dans cet article que l'impact culturel de la Première Guerre mondiale en Grande-Bretagne ne peut être compris que si l'on donne aux campagnes du Moyen- Orient la place centrale qui est la leur. Il montre qu'un des effets généralement attribués au front de l'Ouest - une totale perte de foi dans la technique et dans l'héroïsme individuel - a été compensé, à bien des égards, par les leçons tirées de la guerre en Palestine et en Mé…
Turning Space into Place: British India and the Invention of Iraq
War, Wireless, and Empire: Marconi and the British Warfare State, 1896-1903
This article shows how cultural-historical methods can illuminate otherwise opaque aspects of the relationship between war and technological change. In particular, it examines the early history of radio at the time of the South African War when Guglielmo Marconi battled a range of rival inventors and entrepreneurs in the British public sphere. The author argues that although the technology was not sophisticated enough to fulfill many actual milit…
Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914 (review)
Reviewed by: Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914 Priya Satia Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914. By Martin Thomas. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008). The author is, indeed, dead: this is one of three new books identifying something novel and strange afoot in the colonial states of the modern Middle East.1 Perhaps it is the spirit of our own age screami…
Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East
This book offers a cultural history of British intelligence–gathering in the Middle East in the era of World War One and its consequences in British literary and political culture and military and state practice. Culture mattered especially in this intelligence endeavor because of British agents' orientalist preconceptions of “Arabia” as an inscrutable, romantic space offering adventure and spiritualism. They developed an intelligence epistemolog…
Managing British Colonial and Post-Colonial Development: The Crown Agents, 1914-74. By David Sunderland
The Crown Agents were established in 1833 to handle colonial governments’ purchases and payments in Britain. After the institution's near fatal misadventure as a secondary bank during the era of decolonization, it was reinvented as today's private company trading in services and expertise for international development. Managing British Colonial and Post-Colonial Development is economic historian David Sunderland's second book on the Agents, cover…
Developing Iraq: Britain, India and the Redemption of Empire and Technology in the First World War
Journal Article Developing Iraq: Britain, India and the Redemption of Empire and Technology in the First World War Get access Priya Satia Priya Satia Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 197, Issue 1, November 2007, Pages 211–255, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtm008 Published: 01 November 2007
The Defense of Inhumanity: Air Control and the British Idea of Arabia
You have to understand the Arab mind," Capt.Todd Brown, a company commander with the Fourth Infantry Division, said as he stood outside the gates of Abu Hishma."The only thing they understand is force-force
Britain and the World: A New Field
Over the past decade, historians, journals, conferences, and even job advertisements have devoted attention to a new field of inquiry, "Britain and the world." This emergent category is far from coherent but, despite a variety of approaches, shares a common assumption that Britain's interactions with the world beyond its shores enable us to better understand the histories of both Britain and the globe. Writing the history of Britain from a compar…
War, Wireless, and Empire: Marconi and the British Warfare State, 1896-1903
This article shows how cultural-historical methods can illuminate otherwise opaque aspects of the relationship between war and technological change. In particular, it examines the early history of radio at the time of the South African War when Guglielmo Marconi battled a range of rival inventors and entrepreneurs in the British public sphere. The author argues that although the technology was not sophisticated enough to fulfill many actual milit…
The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age
Developing Iraq: Britain, India and the Redemption of Empire and Technology in the First World War
Journal Article Developing Iraq: Britain, India and the Redemption of Empire and Technology in the First World War Get access Priya Satia Priya Satia Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 197, Issue 1, November 2007, Pages 211–255, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtm008 Published: 01 November 2007
Byron, Gandhi and the Thompsons: The Making of British Social History and Unmaking of Indian History
This paper explores the influence of the Indian nationalist movement on the formation of British social history by highlighting the intellectual and social bonds between key nationalists and the Thompson family (Edward Thompson and his sons Frank and E. P. Thompson). A twentieth-century preoccupation with Byron, whose Romantic views of freedom and nation were shaped by the period of colonial conquest, hangs over the joint intellectual and politic…
Britain’s Culture War: Disguising Imperial Politics as Historical Debate about Empire
In step with many governments today, the current British government has consistently attacked scholarly efforts to understand imperialism and its legacies. Instead, it foists a historical narrative
Risking a Colonial Anticolonialism
The Defense of Inhumanity: Air Control and the British Idea of Arabia
You have to understand the Arab mind," Capt.Todd Brown, a company commander with the Fourth Infantry Division, said as he stood outside the gates of Abu Hishma."The only thing they understand is force-force
Developing Iraq: Britain, India and the Redemption of Empire and Technology in the First World War
Journal Article Developing Iraq: Britain, India and the Redemption of Empire and Technology in the First World War Get access Priya Satia Priya Satia Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 197, Issue 1, November 2007, Pages 211–255, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtm008 Published: 01 November 2007
Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East
This book offers a cultural history of British intelligence–gathering in the Middle East in the era of World War One and its consequences in British literary and political culture and military and state practice. Culture mattered especially in this intelligence endeavor because of British agents' orientalist preconceptions of “Arabia” as an inscrutable, romantic space offering adventure and spiritualism. They developed an intelligence epistemolog…
Managing British Colonial and Post-Colonial Development: The Crown Agents, 1914-74. By David Sunderland
The Crown Agents were established in 1833 to handle colonial governments’ purchases and payments in Britain. After the institution's near fatal misadventure as a secondary bank during the era of decolonization, it was reinvented as today's private company trading in services and expertise for international development. Managing British Colonial and Post-Colonial Development is economic historian David Sunderland's second book on the Agents, cover…
Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914 (review)
Reviewed by: Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914 Priya Satia Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914. By Martin Thomas. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008). The author is, indeed, dead: this is one of three new books identifying something novel and strange afoot in the colonial states of the modern Middle East.1 Perhaps it is the spirit of our own age screami…
War, Wireless, and Empire: Marconi and the British Warfare State, 1896-1903
This article shows how cultural-historical methods can illuminate otherwise opaque aspects of the relationship between war and technological change. In particular, it examines the early history of radio at the time of the South African War when Guglielmo Marconi battled a range of rival inventors and entrepreneurs in the British public sphere. The author argues that although the technology was not sophisticated enough to fulfill many actual milit…
Turning Space into Place: British India and the Invention of Iraq
Byron, Gandhi and the Thompsons: The Making of British Social History and Unmaking of Indian History
This paper explores the influence of the Indian nationalist movement on the formation of British social history by highlighting the intellectual and social bonds between key nationalists and the Thompson family (Edward Thompson and his sons Frank and E. P. Thompson). A twentieth-century preoccupation with Byron, whose Romantic views of freedom and nation were shaped by the period of colonial conquest, hangs over the joint intellectual and politic…
Centralité des marges
L'auteure soutient dans cet article que l'impact culturel de la Première Guerre mondiale en Grande-Bretagne ne peut être compris que si l'on donne aux campagnes du Moyen- Orient la place centrale qui est la leur. Il montre qu'un des effets généralement attribués au front de l'Ouest - une totale perte de foi dans la technique et dans l'héroïsme individuel - a été compensé, à bien des égards, par les leçons tirées de la guerre en Palestine et en Mé…
Empire of guns: The violent making of the Industrial Revolution
A reframing of the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire, and the emergence of industrial capitalism presents them as inextricable from the gun trade and the story of disgraced Quaker gunmaker Samuel Galton. "We have long understood the Industrial Revolution as a triumphant story of innovation and technology. [This] rich and ambitious new book by award-winning historian Priya Satia upends this conventional wisdom by placing war a…
Britain and the World: A New Field
Over the past decade, historians, journals, conferences, and even job advertisements have devoted attention to a new field of inquiry, "Britain and the world." This emergent category is far from coherent but, despite a variety of approaches, shares a common assumption that Britain's interactions with the world beyond its shores enable us to better understand the histories of both Britain and the globe. Writing the history of Britain from a compar…
Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution
The state and the gun industry, part 1 : 1688-1756 -- Who made guns? -- The state and the gun industry, part 2 : 1756-1815 -- The state, war, and industrial revolution -- Interlude : a brief lesson from African history -- Guns and money -- Guns in arms, part 1 : home -- Guns in Arms, part 2 : abroad -- Interlude : a brief account of the Society of Friends -- Galton's disownment -- The gun trade after 1815 -- Opposition to the gun trade after 1815
Author response
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Time's Monster: How History Makes History
Time's Monster demonstrates the dramatic consequences of writing history today as much as in the past. Against the backdrop of enduring global inequalities, debates about reparations, and the crisis in the humanities, Satia's is an urgent moral voice
Risking a Colonial Anticolonialism
Britain’s Culture War: Disguising Imperial Politics as Historical Debate about Empire
In step with many governments today, the current British government has consistently attacked scholarly efforts to understand imperialism and its legacies. Instead, it foists a historical narrative
How Memory of Empire Drove the Postwar Resurrection of Empire
Robert Gildea offers a masterful narrative of the British and French Empires and of how their memory—“empires of the mind”—continues to shape the world. This is a story of empire stretching from the eighteenth century to 2017 as an unbroken narrative, bridging the illusory rupture of “decolonization” after World War II—a courageous and necessary intervention. Gildea’s approach is fittingly “both comparative and entangled” (13)…
The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age
The Forgotten Dreams of History-from-Below
In his 2003 essay, “On Agency,” Walter Johnson faulted the way scholars’ focus on agency presumed a “unidirectional trade between past and present,” treating “history writing as a mode of redress.” It marginalized “human-ness lived outside the conventions” of a “liberal notion of selfhood.” Restoring agency to the enslaved made the scholar feel better about themselves without making the world any better: “therapy rather than politics.” Looking ba…
Globalizing Europe: A History
Globalizing Europe explores modern Europe's myriad entanglements with the wider world, considering the continent not only as an engine but also as a product of global transformations. It looks at the ways in which the global movements of peoples and ideas, goods and raw materials, flora and fauna have impacted life on the continent over the centuries. Bringing together a group of leading historians, the book shows how the history of Europe can be…
The Scholarly Business of Corporations and Slavery: Political Fault Lines of the Economic History of Empire
Historians of capitalism have put monopoly corporations and slavery at the heart of the history of a political-economic system long mythologized as founded on free markets. Liberal political economic theory, presupposing and demanding a private economic realm free from state intervention that would drive world-historical progress, was partly a reaction to the long sway of corporations that collapsed distinctions between private and public. The ca…
The Other Republicans: Anti-Monarchical Movements in the World in the Era of America’s Independence
Two-hundred-fifty years ago, Americans rejected monarchy in favour of a republican ideology anchored in liberal ideas of the natural rights of individuals and the protection of property. But in tha...
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