Empire by Niall Ferguson
How Britain Made the Modern World
An ambitious revisionist history arguing that the British imperial project profoundly shaped the modern world by spreading legal, financial and administrative institutions, global trade networks, and technological and cultural links while also relying on military force, coercion and exploitation. Using case studies and economic analysis, it traces how these dynamics produced rapid expansion and eventual decline, weighing the empire’s contributions to economic growth and globalization against its moral and human costs.
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- 2003
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- British
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