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ISBN10: 0465023282, ISBN13: 9780465023288, [publisher: Basic Books] Hardcover 392 pages. The British Empire was the largest in all history, its reach the nearest thing to world domination ever achieved. B y the eve of the Second World War, over a fifth of the world's la nd surface and nearly a quarter of the world's population were un der some form of British rule. Yet for today's generation, the Br itish Empire has come to stand for nothing more than a lost Victo rian past--one so remote that it has ceased even to be a target f or satire. The time is ripe for a reappraisal.In this major new w ork of synthesis and revision, Niall Ferguson argues that the Bri tish Empire should be regarded not merely as vanished Victoriana but as the very cradle of modernity. Nearly all the key features of the twenty-first-century world can be traced back to the extra ordinary expansion of Britain's economy, population, and culture from the seventeenth century until the mid-twentieth--economic gl obalization, the communications revolution, the racial make-up of North America, the notion of humanitarianism, the nature of demo cracy. Displaying the originality and rigor that have made him th e brightest light among British historians, Ferguson shows that f ar from being a subject for nostalgia, the story of the Empire is pregnant with lessons for the world today--in particular for the United States as it stands on the brink of a new kind of imperia l power based ...

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