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- Product code: 25077
- ISBN: 0141007540,
ISBN13: 9780141007540,
448 pages, paperback
Published by Penguin Books Ltd, 2004
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Description of Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World |
A grand narrative history of the worl d's first experiment in globalization, with lesson s for an ever-expanding American Empire--from Engl and's most talented young historian The British Empire was the largest in all history , its reach the nearest thing to world domination ever achieved. By the eve of the Second World War, over a fifth of the world's land surface and near ly a quarter of the world's population were under some form of British rule. Yet for today's generat ion, the British Empire has come to stand for noth ing more than a lost Victorian past--one so remote that it has ceased even to be a target for satire . The time is ripe for a reappraisal.In this m ajor new work of synthesis and revision, Niall Fer guson argues that the British Empire should be reg arded not merely as vanished Victoriana but as the very cradle of modernity. Nearly all the key feat ures of the twenty-first-century world can be trac ed back to the extraordinary expansion of Britain' s economy, population, and culture from the sevent eenth century until the mid-twentieth--economic gl obalization, the communications revolution, the ra cial make-up of North America, the notion of human itarianism, the nature of democracy. Displaying th e originality and rigor that have made him the bri ghtest light among British historians, Ferguson sh ows that far from being a subject for nostalgia, t he story of the Empire is pregnant with lessons for the world today-in particular for the United St ates as it stands on the brink of a new kind of imperial power based once again on economic and mili tary supremacy.
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