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.
Książka o dziejach Imperium Brytyjskiego i wpływie jaki miało na swoje kolonie.
Penguin Books Ltd, 2009
Format: 200 x 130 mm, 448s.
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