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Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson (Paperback, 2009)
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Product Description : This astoundingly successful superbly reviewed book vividly recreates the excitement brutality and adventure of the British Empire Fergusons most revolutionary and popular work Empire is a major reinterpretation of the British Empire as one of the worlds greatest modernising forces It shows on a vast canvas how the British Empire in the 19th Century spearheaded real globalisation with steampower telegraphs guns engineers missionaries and millions of settlers
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Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic achieve all this? And why did the empire on which the sun literally never set finally decline and fall? Niall Ferguson's acclaimed Empire brilliantly unfolds the imperial story in all its splendours and its miseries, showing how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers planted the seed of the biggest empire in all history - and set the world on the road to modernity. 'The most brilliant British historian of his generation ... Ferguson examines the roles of pirates, planters, missionaries, mandarins, bankers and bankrupts in the creation of history's largest empire ... he writes with splendid panache ... and a seemingly effortless, debonair wit' Andrew Roberts 'Dazzling ... wonderfully readable' New York Review of Books 'A remarkably readable precis of the whole British imperial story - triumphs, deceits, decencies, kindnesses, cruelties and all' Jan Morris 'Empire is a pleasure to read and brims with insights and intelligence' Sunday Times %%%Niall Ferguson's bestselling Empire is the compelling story of how the British empire rose to power - and why it finally fell. Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic achieve all this? And why did the empire on which the sun literally never set finally decline and fall? Niall Ferguson's acclaimed Empire brilliantly unfolds the imperial story in all its splendours and its miseries, showing how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers planted the seed of the biggest empire in all history - and set the world on the road to modernity. 'The most brilliant British historian of his generation ... Ferguson examines the roles of pirates, planters, missionaries, mandarins, bankers and bankrupts in the creation of history's largest empire ... he writes with splendid panache ... and a seemingly effortless, debonair wit' Andrew Roberts 'Dazzling ... wonderfully readable' New York Review of Books 'A remarkably readable precis of the whole British imperial story - triumphs, deceits, decencies, kindnesses, cruelties and all' Jan Morris 'Empire is a pleasure to read and brims with insights and intelligence' Sunday Times Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the bestselling author of Civilization, The House of Rothschild, The Cash Nexus, The Pity of War, Colossus, The War of the World and The Ascent of Money.Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Books LTD
ISBN-139780141007540
eBay Product ID (ePID)87336189
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SubjectHistory
Publication Year2009
Number of Pages448 Pages
Publication NameEmpire: How Britain Made the Modern World
LanguageEnglish
TypeTextbook
AuthorNiall Ferguson
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Width129 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorNiall Ferguson
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- 07 Mar, 2025
Nice clean book , have not read it yet....
Nice clean book , have not read it yet.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 03 May, 2016
Good introduction to the Empire
Amazing amount of information about this topic, succinct and easy to read. Groundwork for OU history course.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
