Ashis Basu (@BasuAshis): Amitav Ghosh on the Lies of History and How the Natural World Fights Back
@BenEhrenreich in Conversation with @GhoshAmitav Author of The Nutmeg’s Curse
https://lithub.com/amitav-ghosh-on-the-lies-of-history-and-how-the-natural-world-fights-back/ via @lithub
Ashis Basu (@BasuAshis): "Those narratives are misleading: as @PriyaSatia has shown in Empire of Guns, it was the phenomenal growth of the English armaments industry that seeded the innovations that led to the Industrial Revolution." - @GhoshAmitav