Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World

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