Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (Record no. 220682)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0465023282
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Transcribing agency AL
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
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Edition number 23
Classification number 942.01
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Personal name Niall Ferguson
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Title Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Basic Books
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2003
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Extent xxix,392 p.
Other physical details HB
Dimensions 25x19 cm.
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Price amount 35.00
Currency code $
Unit of pricing 35.00
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Summary, etc. Annotation. The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to world domination ever achieved. By the eve of World War II, around a quarter of the world's land surface was under some form of British rule. Yet for today's generation, the British Empire seems a Victorian irrelevance. The time is ripe for a reappraisal, and in Empire , Niall Ferguson boldly recasts the British Empire as one of the world's greatest modernizing forces. An important new work of synthesis and revision, Empire argues that the world we know today is in large measure the product of Britain's Age of Empire. The spread of capitalism, the communications revolution, the notion of humanitarianism, and the institutions of parliamentary democracy-all these can be traced back to the extraordinary expansion of Britain's economy, population, and culture from the seventeenth century until the mid-twentieth. On a vast and vividly colored canvas, Empire shows how the British Empire acted as midwife to modernity. Displaying the originality and rigor that have made him the brightest light among British historians, Ferguson shows that the story of the Empire is pregnant with lessons for today-in particular for the United States as it stands on the brink of a new era of imperial power, based once again on economic and military supremacy. A dazzling tour de force, Empire is a remarkable reappraisal of the prizes and pitfalls of global empire.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element History of England
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Great Britain
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Personal name FERGUSON (Niall)
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     History St Aloysius Library St Aloysius Library 03/24/2013   942.01 FERE GF03537 11/18/2021 11/18/2021 George Fernandes Collections