· A Taiwan Crisis May Mark the End of the American Empire. America is a diplomatic fox, while Beijing is a hedgehog fixated on the big idea of reunification. Diplomacy to a . · Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World. by Niall Ferguson pp, Allen Lane, £ Empire, it seems, is coming out of the closet. For decades, it has mainly provoked condemnation or Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. · Ferguson is an economist and historian at New York University and Oxford, and his latest book is "Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Estimated Reading Time: 9 mins.
Niall Ferguson's Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power is, first, a mouthful to say in one breath. Second. Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson Allen Lane £25, pp A little riskily, Niall Ferguson's history of the British Empire opens with a long quotation from Joseph Conrad. Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World: With Niall Ferguson, John Sessions, Donald Gee, Burt Caesar.
The future of American powerNiall Ferguson on why the end of America’s empire won’t be peaceful. Niall Ferguson on why the end of America’s empire won’t be peaceful. As it leaves. At its peak in the nineteenth century, the British Empire was the largest empire ever known, governing roughly a quarter of the world's population. In Empire, Niall Ferguson explains how "an archipelago of rainy islands came to rule the world," and examines the costs and consequences, both good and bad, of British imperialism. Though the book's breadth is impressive, it is not intended to be a comprehensive history of the British Empire; rather, Ferguson seeks to glean lessons from this. 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.
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