- British colonies, Colonies, Imperialism, Overzeese expansie
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.
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- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Niall Ferguson
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 404
- Publisher
- Basic Books, Penguin Books Ltd, CITIC Press Corporation
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- Spanish, Chinese, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780141804019
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“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.”
Niall Campbell Ferguson is a British historian from Scotland. He is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, University of Oxford, a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities. His specialties are international history, economic and financial history, and British and American imperialism. He is known for his provocative, contrarian views. - Wikipedia
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