The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to World domination ever achieved.
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,.
Yet for today\'s generation, the British Empire seems a Victorian irrelevance.
By the eve of World War II, around a quarter of the world\'s land surface was under some form of British rule.
The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to World domination ever achieved