Book description
This astoundingly successful, superbly reviewed book vividly recreates
the excitement, brutality and adventure of the British Empire.
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.
Niall Ferguson is Professor of International History at Harvard
University, Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford and a Senior
Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author
of the best-selling
War of the World
