Empire : the rise and demise of the British world order and the lessons for global power /
Ferguson, Niall, 1964-
Empire : the rise and demise of the British world order and the lessons for global power / Niall Ferguson - New York : Basic Books, 2003 - xxix, 392 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-383) and index.
Why Britain?; white plague; the mission; heaven's breed; maxim force; empire for sale.
In this book Niall Ferguson argues that the British Empire should be regarded not merely as vanished Victoriana but as the very cradle of modernity. Nearly all the key features of the twenty-first-century world can be traced back to the extraordinary expansion of Britain's economy, population, and culture from the seventeenth century until the mid-twentieth--economic globalization, the communications revolution, the racial make-up of North America, the notion of humanitarianism, the nature of democracy. Ferguson shows that far from being a subject for nostalgia, the story of the Empire contains lessons for the world today--in particular for the United States as it stands on the brink of a new kind of imperial power based once again on economic and military supremacy
0465023290 9780465023295
Civilización moderna --Influencia británica
Imperialismo
Great Britain--Colonies--History.
Civilization, Modern--British influences.
Great Britain--Foreign relations.
Commonwealth countries.
Gran Bretaña --Colonias --Historia
Gran Bretaña --Relaciones exteriores
322 DA 16 / F353e 2003
909/.0971241
Empire : the rise and demise of the British world order and the lessons for global power / Niall Ferguson - New York : Basic Books, 2003 - xxix, 392 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-383) and index.
Why Britain?; white plague; the mission; heaven's breed; maxim force; empire for sale.
In this book Niall Ferguson argues that the British Empire should be regarded not merely as vanished Victoriana but as the very cradle of modernity. Nearly all the key features of the twenty-first-century world can be traced back to the extraordinary expansion of Britain's economy, population, and culture from the seventeenth century until the mid-twentieth--economic globalization, the communications revolution, the racial make-up of North America, the notion of humanitarianism, the nature of democracy. Ferguson shows that far from being a subject for nostalgia, the story of the Empire contains lessons for the world today--in particular for the United States as it stands on the brink of a new kind of imperial power based once again on economic and military supremacy
0465023290 9780465023295
Civilización moderna --Influencia británica
Imperialismo
Great Britain--Colonies--History.
Civilization, Modern--British influences.
Great Britain--Foreign relations.
Commonwealth countries.
Gran Bretaña --Colonias --Historia
Gran Bretaña --Relaciones exteriores
322 DA 16 / F353e 2003
909/.0971241