Empire: how Britain made the modern world

by Ferguson, Niall

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Title Statements

Full title :Empire : how Britain made the modern world / Niall Ferguson.

Summary

"The British Empire was the biggest empire in all history. At its peak it governed a quarter of the world's land and people and dominated all its seas." "Though little now remains of the Empire as a political power, its legacy is all around us. It laid the foundation for the global triumph of capitalism. It gave the world its common language, English. It exported both Protestantism and parliaments. And it defeated a succession of rival empires from the Habsburgs' to Hitler's." "Empire shows how the British wrested power from their rivals by a combination of imitation and intimidation. It shows how mass migration from Britain turned the American and Australian continents white - and how the missionary movement sought to enlighten the 'dark' continents of Africa and Asia. Above all, Empire explains how the British Empire rose - and why it finally fell. Ferguson's answers are controversial but compelling."--BOOK JACKET.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2003.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Allen Lane
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2003.

The Physical Object

Description:xxv, 392 pages : : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits (some color) ; : 26 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0713996153, 9780713996159
oclc:ocm51481830
LC Classification:DA16
Dewey Decimal:325.341

Why Britain? -- White plague -- The mission -- Heaven's breed -- Maxim force -- Empire for sale.

Subjects

British colonies Grande-Bretagne -- Colonies Great Britain -- Colonies History Imperialism Imperialism -- History Impérialisme -- Histoire Overzeese expansie