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＂An entertaining, engaging romp through four centuries of
British imperialism.＂ -- Los Angeles Times
＂Brilliantly challenges the simplistic focus on racism,
violence and exploitation.... A concise and lucid exposition....
Popular history at its best.＂ -- Washington Post
＂Engrossing, opinionated and immensely entertaining.＂ -- The
Globe and Mail
＂Fluently written, engaging, beautifully designed and
spectacularly illustrated.... Empire is a model of how to do
popular history.＂ -- The Econ
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"A splendid history.... If Americans want to be convinced of
the benefits of empire, as well as apprised of its costs, they need
merely pick up Ferguson''s dazzling book." --Weekly Standard
The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest
thing to world domination ever achieved. By the eve of World War
II, around a quarter of the world''s land surface was under some
form of British rule. Yet for today''s generation, the British
Empire seems a Victorian irrelevance. 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, Empire argues
that the world we know today is in large measure the product of
Britain''s Age of Empire. The spread of capitalism, the
communications revolution, the notion of humanitarianism, and the
institutions of parliamentary democracy-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. On a vast and vividly colored canvas, Empire shows
how the British Empire acted as midwife to modernity.
Displaying the originality and rigor that have made him the
brightest light among British historians, Ferguson shows that the
story of the Empire is pregnant with lessons for today-in
particular for the United States as it stands on the brink of a new
era of imperial power, based once again on economic and military
supremacy. A dazzling tour de force, Empire is a remarkable
reappraisal of the prizes and pitfalls of global empire.
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Niall Ferguson is Herzog Professor of Financial History at the
Stern School of Business, New York University, and Senior Research
Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford University, where he is also
Visiting Professor of History. He is the author of Paper and Iron,
The Cash Nexus, The Pity of War, Virtual History, and the
award-winning The House of Rothschild. He writes regularly for the
Times Literary Supplement and the New York Times and is a prolific
commentator on contemporary politics. Next year, he will teach full
time at Harvard University. He and his family divide their time
between New York and Oxfordshire.
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