The Classical 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 steam power, telegraphs, guns, engineers, missionaries and millions of settlers.

Softcover. English. Penguin. 2007. ISBN: 9780141035277. 720 pp. Good. Book No: 55264