Empire (Penguin Celebrations)

Ferguson, Niall

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Author
Ferguson, Niall
Publish Date
2007
Edition
Penguin Celebrations
Subtitle
How Britain Made the Modern World
Book Type
Paperback
Number of Pages
448
Publisher Name
270
ISBN-10
0141035269
ISBN-13
9780141035260
citemno
116179
SKU
9780141035260

Description

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.