Empire: How Britain Made The Modern

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. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic achieve all this? And why did the empire on which the sun literally never set finally decline and fall? Niall Ferguson's acclaimed Emipre 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.
About Author :
Niall Ferguson is Herzog Professor of Financial History at the stern School of Business, New York University, Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and Senior Research Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford. he is the author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rotheschild (two volumes), The Pity of War and The Cash Nexus. He was also the editor of Virtual History. He lives in Oxfordshire with his wife and three children.
Contents :
IntroductionWhy Britain? White Plague The Mission Heaven's Breed Maxim Force Empire for Sale Conclusion Acknowledgements Illustration Acknowledgements Bibliography Index