by Niall Ferguson · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141035260
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«Empire» is Niall Ferguson's history essay, published by Penguin in paperback (448 pages, in English).
Niall Ferguson reinterprets the British Empire as one of history's great modernizing forces and explains how a small rainy island came to dominate vast regions of the planet. The essay shows how, in the nineteenth century, the empire drove globalization through steam, telegraph, weapons, engineers and missionaries, and examines both its splendors and its miseries, as well as the decline of an empire on which the sun never set.
The book belongs to the Penguin Celebrations series and was originally published in 2003. This paperback edition dates from 2007.
Recommended for readers interested in modern history, the British Empire and the origins of globalization.
Sir Niall Campbell Ferguson is a British and American historian who is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Previously, he was a professor at Harvard University, the London School of Economics, New York University, a visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities, and a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. He was a visiting lecturer at the London School of Economics for the 2023/2024 academic year and at Tsinghua University in China from 2019 to 2020.
