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Empire (Paperback, New edition)
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The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest
thing to world domination ever achieved. By the eve of World War
II, around a quarter of the world's land surface was under some
form of British rule. Yet for today's generation, the British
Empire seems a Victorian irrelevance. The time is ripe for a
reappraisal, and in Empire, Niall Ferguson boldly recasts the
British Empire as one of the world's greatest modernizing forces.An
important new work of synthesis and revision, Empire argues that
the world we know today is in large measure the product of
Britain's Age of Empire. The spread of capitalism, the
communications revolution, the notion of humanitarianism, and the
institutions of parliamentary democracy-all these can be traced
back to the extraordinary expansion of Britain's economy,
population, and culture from the seventeenth century until the
mid-twentieth. On a vast and vividly colored canvas, Empire shows
how the British Empire acted as midwife to modernity.Displaying the
originality and rigor that have made him the brightest light among
British historians, Ferguson shows that the story of the Empire is
pregnant with lessons for today-in particular for the United States
as it stands on the brink of a new era of imperial power, based
once again on economic and military supremacy. A dazzling tour de
force, Empire is a remarkable reappraisal of the prizes and
pitfalls of global empire.
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