Empire
Subtitle: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: April 13, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780465023295
First sentence: In December 1663 a Welshman called Henry Morgan sailed five hundred miles across the Caribbean to mount a spectacular raid on a Spanish outpost called Gran Grenada, to the north of Lago de Nicaragua.