Empire
Author: Ferguson, Niall
ISBN: 9780141037318
Publisher: Penguin Press
Year First Published: 2008
Pages: 464
Dimensions: 180mm x 111mm x 33mm
Format: Paperback / softback
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.
ISBN: 9780141037318
Publisher: Penguin Press
Year First Published: 2008
Pages: 464
Dimensions: 180mm x 111mm x 33mm
Format: Paperback / softback
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.
