num_pages: 422
description: Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic achieve all this? And why did the empire on which the sun literally never set finally decline and fall? Niall Ferguson's acclaimed Empire brilliantly unfolds the imperial story in all its splendours and its miseries, showing how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers planted the seed of the biggest empire in all history - and set the world on the road to modernity.
language: English
title: Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
titlecomplete: Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
genres: British Literature, Historical, History, Economics, India, European History, World History, Audiobook, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 8480
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Arthur Ross Book Award
publisher: Penguin Books