ISBN: 9780141037318
BINDING: Paperback
CONDITION: Very good
PUBLISHED: First published 2003, Popular Penguins 2008
DESCRIPTION: Nial Ferguson Empire: How Britain made the modern world
'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.' Penguin