Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World

Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Ferguson, Niall. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780141007540.

This astoundingly successful, superbly reviewed book vividly recreates the excitement, brutality and adventure of the British Empire. Fergusons most revolutionary and popular work, "Empire" is a major reinterpretation of the British Empire as one of the worlds 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.