<p><b>Niall Ferguson''s acclaimed bestseller on the highs and lows of Britain''s empire<br></b><br>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 <i>Empire</i> 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.<br><br>''The most brilliant British historian of his generation ... Ferguson examines the roles of "pirates, planters, missionaries, mandarins, bankers and bankrupts" in the creation of history''s largest empire ... he writes with splendid panache ... and a seemingly effor
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<p><b>Winner of the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize 2013<br></b><br>In 1412, Europe was a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war, while the Orient was home to dazzling civilizations....
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I Finansplaneten viser professor Niall Ferguson at pengevesenet faktisk er grunnlaget for menneskets fremskritt. Dessuten beskriver han hvordan finanshistorien er bakteppet for all historie. Med den klarhet og begeistring han er kjent for, forklarer Ferguson...
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'Riveting ... this will be his masterpiece' - Andrew Roberts, The New York Times'For big, bold and compelling, it is impossible to ignore Kissinger' - John Bew, New Statesman, Books of the Year 'This is a superb history of the...
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The First World War killed around eight million men and bled Europe dry. Was the sacrifice worth it? Was it all really an inevitable cataclysm and were the Germans a genuine threat? Was the war, as is often asserted, greeted with popular enthusiasm? Why...
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