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  • How Britain Made the Modern World
  • Written by: Niall Ferguson
  • Narrated by: Niall Ferguson
  • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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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 Empire 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.
©2004 Patrick Hennessey (P)2004 Penguin Audio
Ideologies & Doctrines World Great Britain Modern
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What the critics say

"The most brilliant British historian of his generation. Ferguson examines the roles of "pirates, planters, missionaries, mandarins, bankers and bankrupts" in the creation of history's largest empire...he writes with splendid panache...and a seemingly effortless, debonair wit." (Andrew Roberts)

"Dazzling ... wonderfully readable." (New York Review of Books)

"A remarkably readable précis of the whole British imperial story - triumphs, deceits, decencies, kindnesses, cruelties and all." (Jan Morris)

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apologia for the worst of the British Empire

that being said, it does manage to get some of the historical facts right. likely best paired with a more critical view of colonialism and Britain's history

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