This grand narrative history of the world\'s first experiment in globalization offers Lessons for an ever-expanding American Empire--from England\'s most talented young historian.
Displaying the originality and rigor that have made Niall Ferguson one of the world\'s foremost historians, Empire is a dazzling tour de force -- a remarkable reappraisal of the prizes and pitfalls of Global empire..
On a vast and vividly colored canvas, Empire shows how the British Empire acted as midwife to modernity.
The Global spread of capitalism, telecommunications, the English language, and institutions of representative government -- 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.
The World we know today is in large measure the product of Britain\'s Age of Empire.
A bestselling historian shows how the British Empire created the modern world, in a book lauded as a rattling good tale ( Wall Street Journal ) and popular history at its best ( Washington Post) The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to Global domination ever achieved.
This grand narrative history of the world\'s first experiment in globalization offers Lessons for an ever-expanding American Empire--from England\'s most talented young historian
