He reflects on the achievements and problems of the empire and concludes that in its twilight years Britain did more good than harm in fighting two far worse empires, namely Japan and Germany. For example, the time at which any territory is drawn through the opening up of its trade into the globalizing economy can have a critical impact on its future development. From the point of view of personal enrichment, Ferguson himself doubtless found the operation of the free media market a very good thing, as will his publisher. In a spirit of unflinching altruism Britain exported its peoples and its capital to all corners of the globe, often at significant cost to itself. Just fill in your details.
He also traces the Indian mutiny of 1857 and its brutal aftermath in which thousands were brutally killed. The British government could and did restrain the actions of its subjects, but distance and technology often meant that it was impotent to stop some of the worst excesses. It is a fine overview and provides plenty of food for thought. This certainly led to them being labelled as pirates by the Spanish but he conveniently ignores the Papal Bull of 1569 that compelled Catholics to try and kill Elizabeth. Moreover the distribution of any gains within individual states was often not directed to equalizing incomes. Images of heroes overcoming the native warriors were very popular. Doubtless the balance of power and wealth among, and so the contribution made by, participating states was then different from that which developed later on; and ‘globalization’ had perhaps not yet become global in its reach.
The series is highly entertaining, informative and thought-provoking, and provides an excellent and balanced overview of the British empire and its continuing legacy in the world. Whatever the problems presented by that work (and they were numerous), Davis and Huttenback confirmed above all the need to ask of imperial commitments and colonial possessions who benefited, from what, and when. There are many other examples of facts conveniently shoe-horned into his, admittedly compelling, view of the spread and development of The British Empire. Or the fact that in percentage terms, more slave-ship crew died than the slaves on the voyages - something which seems abhorrent but West Africa was called the White Man's Grave for a reason. The book in one respect at least is more modest – readers are not treated to the screen’s many instances of full-frontal Ferguson poised to make eye contact with a key pronouncement about liberty or slaves. First published on Sat 25 Jan 2003 18.35 EST.
He very nicely describes the tensions between the British Government back in London and the settlers on the frontier who very often wished to sacrifice the rights of indigenous peoples in order to grab their land or minerals.
After all, Ferguson’s book is very much the book of the film, a fleshier version of what is for the most part clearly spelt out on the screen. narration. Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson 392pp, Allen Lane, £25 Empire, it seems, is coming out of the closet. Every iconoclast needs a neologism; mine is Anglobalisation. All rights reserved. The British government could and did restrain the actions of its subjects, but distance and technology often meant that it was impotent to stop some of the worst excesses. Who would? Occasional references are made, for instance, to the possibility of a French not a British victory in mid-eighteenth-century India. The great variety of combinations of climate, geographical position, and natural endowment of resources, inevitably mean that each territory may be more or less well-placed to find its own niche in the range of economic openings prevailing at any one time. Following the religious revival that started in the late 18th century, missionaries began working in Africa and India in an attempt to bring Christianity and civilisation to societies perceived as heathens. However, the reality of the imperialism of free trade that underlay this option was far more constraining and less benign than Ferguson seems to acknowledge. It was originally written as a book to accompany a British TV series and the format of this series is somewhat replicated in the book - although it doesn't suffer from this confinement in the slightest. review of another edition Shelves: personal-collection I wrote …
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