Empire : the rise and demise of the British world order and the lessons for global power

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Tác giả: Niall Ferguson

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN-10: 0465023282

ISBN-10: 0465023290

ISBN-10: 0713996153

ISBN-13: 978-0465023288

ISBN-13: 978-0465023295

ISBN-13: 978-0713996159

Ký hiệu phân loại: 909.0971241 World history

Thông tin xuất bản: New York : Basic Books, 2004, ò002.

Mô tả vật lý: xxvi, 351 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : , illustrations ; , 24 cm.

Bộ sưu tập: Lịch sử, Địa lý

ID: 281675

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. 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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-335) and index.
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