Smith [ writes] lucidly and with a remarkable command of detail. Linda Colley, Financial Times
This entertaining, well-researched narrative is filled with insight and timely perspective. . . . A must read for anyone interested in the birth of the modern economy.Unseen Histories
Smiths great strength is to show that industrialisation is less a moment than a method. Instead, it is a self-replicating pattern of ingenuity and amnesia. His prose is cool, precise and quietly damning.Sam Olsen, Spectator
Well-told. . . A welcome addition to the historiography.Catherine Hall, HistoryExtra Magazine
A timely, eloquent, compelling examination of an increasingly thorny question.Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
In a contested and congested field, Edmond Smith has produced a thoroughly researched and original work which offers a much-needed global perspective on Britains rise in the eighteenth century. Ruthless is gripping and entertaining. What is more, it is clear and deftly writtena real joy to read.Emma Griffin, author of Libertys Dawn: A Peoples History of the Industrial Revolution
Engagingly written and brilliantly researched, Edmond Smith delivers a superb account of Britains integration of national productivity and international domination. Smith shows us both the architects of this process and, crucially, those it ruthlessly cast aside.William Pettigrew, author of Freedoms Debt: The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Smith brings alive a Britain brimming with economic activity. Peering through the windows of London's coffee houses and Manchester's factories, they guide us engagingly through the country's heyday of relentless expansion.Anton Howes, author of Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation
A panoramic new history that reveals how industry, empire, inventiveness and ruthlessness made Britain great. A must read for anyone who wants to understand the birth of the worlds first modern economy.Nicholas Radburn, author of Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
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