Start by marking “Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World” as Want to Read: Error rating book. It wasn't all news to me but much of it is an eye opener and gives serious pause for thought. Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Niall has two great qualities for a history writer that endears him to this layperson - the ability to write history in a witty, conversational fashion, and a penchant for promoting alternative conclusions for historical events. There were a few nit-picky issues I have with him, but I feel that this is great book that makes a far better case for, weird as it may sound, a Liberal American empire than his sequel to this book does. 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. Ferguson's main point is that, all things considered, the British Empire was a good thing for the world. What can I say? “American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward regions which need them most urgently and which, if they are neglected, will breed the greatest threats to its security.

Here it is (I think I'm pretty harsh in this review--I don't think the book is "one-star bad" though): I so wanted to launch into an outraged invective against the temerity of the author - but find myself in reluctant agreement with most of the arguments. Earlier this year, I read (and reviewed on this site) a nasty piece of work called, This was an absolutely wonderful read! He does do a good job though of demonstrating how certain ideas like the English land tenure system and Common Law were distributed throughout the world, but again he doesn't acknowledge at what cost this came at, at what knowledge was destroyed in the process, and of course to Ferguson, implementing British practices elsewhere is always a positive thing because nothing compares. And so, although his treatment of the British Empire in this book was recommended to me by someone whose opinion I would trust, I approached it with some caution. But I was completely wrong. Wow. 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. And why did the empire on which the sun literally never set finally decline and fall? A cultural supremacist to the core.

Penguin Group; Reprint Edition (December 1, 2004). Файл формата pdf; ... — ISBN: 978-0141-03731-8. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. It will irritate anyone who is ambivalent about the imperialist narratives that from time to time are revisited and promoted. It is an empire, in short, that dare not speak its name.

Niall praises that the British were the ones to control the world for a period arguing that anyone else (especially an eastern empire) would not have done as good a job as the British in "spreading liberty" throughout the world.
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Start by marking “Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World” as Want to Read: Error rating book. It wasn't all news to me but much of it is an eye opener and gives serious pause for thought. Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Niall has two great qualities for a history writer that endears him to this layperson - the ability to write history in a witty, conversational fashion, and a penchant for promoting alternative conclusions for historical events. There were a few nit-picky issues I have with him, but I feel that this is great book that makes a far better case for, weird as it may sound, a Liberal American empire than his sequel to this book does. 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. Ferguson's main point is that, all things considered, the British Empire was a good thing for the world. What can I say? “American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward regions which need them most urgently and which, if they are neglected, will breed the greatest threats to its security.

Here it is (I think I'm pretty harsh in this review--I don't think the book is "one-star bad" though): I so wanted to launch into an outraged invective against the temerity of the author - but find myself in reluctant agreement with most of the arguments. Earlier this year, I read (and reviewed on this site) a nasty piece of work called, This was an absolutely wonderful read! He does do a good job though of demonstrating how certain ideas like the English land tenure system and Common Law were distributed throughout the world, but again he doesn't acknowledge at what cost this came at, at what knowledge was destroyed in the process, and of course to Ferguson, implementing British practices elsewhere is always a positive thing because nothing compares. And so, although his treatment of the British Empire in this book was recommended to me by someone whose opinion I would trust, I approached it with some caution. But I was completely wrong. Wow. 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. And why did the empire on which the sun literally never set finally decline and fall? A cultural supremacist to the core.

Penguin Group; Reprint Edition (December 1, 2004). Файл формата pdf; ... — ISBN: 978-0141-03731-8. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. It will irritate anyone who is ambivalent about the imperialist narratives that from time to time are revisited and promoted. It is an empire, in short, that dare not speak its name.

Niall praises that the British were the ones to control the world for a period arguing that anyone else (especially an eastern empire) would not have done as good a job as the British in "spreading liberty" throughout the world.
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Start by marking “Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World” as Want to Read: Error rating book. It wasn't all news to me but much of it is an eye opener and gives serious pause for thought. Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Niall has two great qualities for a history writer that endears him to this layperson - the ability to write history in a witty, conversational fashion, and a penchant for promoting alternative conclusions for historical events. There were a few nit-picky issues I have with him, but I feel that this is great book that makes a far better case for, weird as it may sound, a Liberal American empire than his sequel to this book does. 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. Ferguson's main point is that, all things considered, the British Empire was a good thing for the world. What can I say? “American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward regions which need them most urgently and which, if they are neglected, will breed the greatest threats to its security.

Here it is (I think I'm pretty harsh in this review--I don't think the book is "one-star bad" though): I so wanted to launch into an outraged invective against the temerity of the author - but find myself in reluctant agreement with most of the arguments. Earlier this year, I read (and reviewed on this site) a nasty piece of work called, This was an absolutely wonderful read! He does do a good job though of demonstrating how certain ideas like the English land tenure system and Common Law were distributed throughout the world, but again he doesn't acknowledge at what cost this came at, at what knowledge was destroyed in the process, and of course to Ferguson, implementing British practices elsewhere is always a positive thing because nothing compares. And so, although his treatment of the British Empire in this book was recommended to me by someone whose opinion I would trust, I approached it with some caution. But I was completely wrong. Wow. 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. And why did the empire on which the sun literally never set finally decline and fall? A cultural supremacist to the core.

Penguin Group; Reprint Edition (December 1, 2004). Файл формата pdf; ... — ISBN: 978-0141-03731-8. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. It will irritate anyone who is ambivalent about the imperialist narratives that from time to time are revisited and promoted. It is an empire, in short, that dare not speak its name.

Niall praises that the British were the ones to control the world for a period arguing that anyone else (especially an eastern empire) would not have done as good a job as the British in "spreading liberty" throughout the world.

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