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1. Jan. 2003 · Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World. Niall Ferguson. 3.92. 8,870 ratings684 reviews. Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia.
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9. Sept. 2020 · Niall Ferguson's acclaimed "Empire" brilliantly unfolds the imperial story in all its splendours and its miseries, showing how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers planted the seed of the biggest empire in all history - and set the world on the road to modernity.
1. Jan. 2004 · Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World. Paperback – January 1, 2004. by Niall Ferguson (Author) 4.4 1,628 ratings. See all formats and editions. This astoundingly successful, superbly reviewed book vividly recreates the excitement, brutality and adventure of the British Empire.
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Niall Ferguson tackles the question of how Britain came to rule such vast tracts of the world and sets out the evidence for judging whether the British Empire was a Good Thing or a Bad Thing. From 17th-century English pirates plundering the European empires, to the legacy of empire in the world today, he describes the forces of commerce ...
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Niall Ferguson's acclaimed Empire brilliantly unfolds the imperial story in all its splendours and its miseries, showing how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers planted the seed of the biggest empire in all history - and set the world on the road to modernity.
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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.
25. Okt. 2012 · Niall Ferguson's acclaimed Empire brilliantly unfolds the imperial story in all its splendours and its miseries, showing how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers planted the seed of the biggest...
