Empire

How Britain Made the Modern World

Niall Ferguson

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Penguin
01 September 2008

This astoundingly successful, superbly reviewed book vividly recreates the excitement, brutality and adventure of the British Empire. Ferguson's most revolutionary and popular work, EMPIRE is a major reinterpretation of the British Empire as one of the world's greatest modernising forces. It shows on a vast canvas how the British Empire in the 19th Century spearheaded real globalisation with steampower, telegraphs, guns, engineers, missionaries and millions of settlers.

By: Niall Ferguson
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 181mm, Width: 111mm,
ISBN: 9780141037318
ISBN 10: 0141037318
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 01 September 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World

'Readers who have now lost their slim Canongate Canons , or never saw them should now cry hallelujah... the prefaces have returned, with extra items, as a 33-essay volume... spend your Easter with Canongate's extremely good book' INDEPENDENT 'Like the best conversation: intellectually rigorous and controversial, yet always alert to the profound and enduring significance of these ancient stories for today's rather more fractured, dislocated humanity' UK METRO 'It's worth the cover price just to see such an extraordinary collection of names gathered on the same contents page. Overwhelmingly, these introductions kindle a desire to look at the original texts with fresh eyes' OBSERVER 'Relish the way [it] demonstrate[s] the Bible's supreme status as a work of myth and poetry and its inadequacies as a factual discourse' TIMES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT 'Revelations offers a series of thought-provoking essays, rigorously argued in a multitude of voices... Invigorating' DAILY MAIL