Authors

Priya Satia

Priya Satia is the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History and Professor of History at Stanford University, where she teaches modern British and British Empire history. Her first book, Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East (2008)won three major prizes including the AHA’s Herbert Baxter Adams Prize. Her second book, Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution (2018), also won three major prizes, including the AHA’s Jerry Bentley Prize, and was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in History. Her new book, Time's Monster: How History Makes History (2020), is just out this month. Her prize-winning work has also appeared in several edited collections and scholarly journals such as the American Historical Review, Past & Present, Technology & Culture, History Workshop Journal, Annales, and Humanity. Professor Satia also writes frequently for popular media, such as Time, The Nation, Washington Post, The New Republic, and Slate.com.

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