(Ebook) Empire: how Britain made the modern world by Niall Ferguson ISBN 9780465023288, 9780465023295, 9780713996159, 0465023282, 0465023290, 0713996153

(Ebook) Empire: how Britain made the modern world by Niall Ferguson ISBN 9780465023288, 9780465023295, 9780713996159, 0465023282, 0465023290, 0713996153

The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to
global domination ever achieved. The world we know today is in large
measure the product of Britain's Age of Empire. 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. 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 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.