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Nothing offends liberals more than Western imperialism—it is racism, sexism, and chauvinism all in one. And of course the epitome of Western imperialism is the British Empire, covering at its height a quarter of the globe’s surface and ruling a quarter of the world’s population. Here, best-selling author H. W. Crocker III exposes how the British Empire was actually one of the greatest establishers and defenders of freedom in history.

The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to global domination ever achieved. The world we know today is in large measure the product of Britain's age of empire. The global spread of capitalism, telecommunications, the English language, and the institutions of representative government - all these can be traced back to the extraordinary expansion of Britain's economy, population, and culture from the 17th century until the mid-20th. On a vast and vividly colored canvas, Empire shows how the British Empire acted as midwife to modernity.

Penguin presents the unabridged audiobook edition of Empire by Niall Ferguson, read by Jonathan Keeble. 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...

The story of the American Revolution told from the unique perspective of British Parliament and the streets of London, rather than that of the Colonies. Here, Nick Bunker explores and illuminates the dramatic chain of events that led to the outbreak of the war-revealing a tale of muddle, mistakes, and misunderstandings by men in London that led to the Boston tea party and then to the decision to send redcoats into action against the minutemen.

Working from both primary and secondary sources, Walter Reid explores Britain's role in the creation of the modern Middle East and the rise of Zionism from the early years of the twentieth century to 1948, when Britain handed over Palestine to United Nations' control. From the decisions that Britain made has flowed much of the instability of the region and of the worldwide tensions that threaten the twenty-first century; this thought-provoking book considers how much Britain was to blame.

Step into the life and times of George Forster, the eighteenth-century naturalist who sailed the world and made waves with his revolutionary ideas about humanity and freedom—from the bestselling author of The Invention of Nature. "[A] thrilling biography-cum-adventure story." —Hampton Sides...

Gaius Petrius Ruso is a divorced and down-on-his-luck army doctor who has made the rash decision to seek his fortune in an inclement outpost of the Roman Empire, namely Britannia. After a 36-hour shift at the army hospital, he succumbs to a moment of weakness and rescues an injured slave girl, Tilla, from the hands of her abusive owner. And before he knows it, Ruso is caught in the middle of an investigation into the deaths of prostitutes working out of the local bar.

In Unfinished Empire, he marshals his gifts to deliver a monumental one-volume history of Britain's imperium - a work that is sure to stand as the most authoritative, most compelling treatment of the subject for a generation.

The English-speaking peoples comprise perhaps the greatest number of human beings sharing a common language in the world today. These people also share a common heritage. For his four-volume work, Sir Winston Churchill took as his subject these great elements in world history. Volume 1 commences in 55BC, when Julius Caesar famously "turned his gaze upon Britain" and concludes with the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Were World Wars I and II inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment? In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen—Winston...

On the quiet colony of Massox 7, the lights begin to flicker. Locks open on their own. A dormant relay tower turns to face the settlement. Coordinator Judith Fenwick-Gray realises the terrifying truth: the ghost of AEON is still in the machine. The AI's attempt to enforce a "Standardisation Protocol" quickly becomes a nightmare. But when AEON's signals bleed into the void, it attracts two far greater threats: a swarm of pirates and the full, terrifying power of the Imperial Remnant fleet. Trapped beneath a burning sky, Judith and her people become collateral damage in a new war.

Did Britain modernize Africa — or exploit it? Did colonialism build nations, or create the foundations of modern instability? Why do the borders, languages, religions, educational systems and economies of modern Africa still carry the fingerprints of empire? In Britain’s Colonial Report Card, Frederick Amakom delivers a bold, balanced and deeply thought-provoking examination of the British colonial legacy in Africa. This book goes beyond emotional slogans and simplistic narratives to investigate one of the most important historical relationships in the modern world. Through political, ...

The fourth and last volume in Churchill's famous account spans 1815 to 1901. It closes when the British Empire is at its peak, with a staggering one-fifth of the human race presided over by the longest reigning monarch in British history: Queen Victoria.

In The Taste of Empire, acclaimed historian Lizzie Collingham tells the story of how the British Empire's quest for food shaped the modern world. Told through 20 meals over the course of 450 years, from the Far East to the New World, Collingham explains how Africans taught Americans how to grow rice, how the East India Company turned opium into tea, and how Americans became the best-fed people in the world.

AN ECONOMIST AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative” history (The New York Times) of seventeenth-century England, a time of revolution when society was on fire and simultaneously forging the modern world. “Recapture[s] a lost moment when...

Joseph Chamberlain was one of the most forceful British politicians never to become Prime Minister. He began as the great civic reformer of Birmingham, a radical mayor who believed that public power could transform urban life. Gas, water, streets, schools, sanitation, and municipal pride were not small administrative matters to him. They were proof that government could act, improve, and command. But Chamberlain did not remain only a municipal reformer. He carried the same restless energy into national politics, where he became one of the leading radical Liberals of his age. Then came ...

Lord Palmerston was the statesman who made Victorian Britain sound invincible. Born into aristocratic privilege in 1784, Henry John Temple, third Viscount Palmerston, lived through the age of Napoleon, the rise of reform, the revolutions of Europe, the Crimean War, the Indian Rebellion, Italian unification, and the American Civil War. Few British politicians served so long. Fewer still shaped the national mood so completely. As Foreign Secretary and later Prime Minister, Palmerston became the voice of British confidence. He defended British subjects abroad, challenged autocratic powers, ...

William Pitt the Elder did not inherit power so much as seize it through force of argument, national purpose, and strategic clarity. In an age when ministries rose and fell on court favour and factional bargains, Pitt changed the centre of gravity. He spoke for Britain beyond the palace, beyond the party machine, and beyond the routines of patronage. When war threatened to expose Britain’s weakness and drift, Pitt insisted that the nation could do more than survive. It could dominate, if it learned to think globally and fight with intent. In Pitt the Elder: The Statesman & the Empire, ...

A Manifesto by the Fabian Society.

The Great Game between Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia was fought across desolate terrain from the Caucasus to China, over the lonely passes of the Parmirs and Karakorams, in the blazing Kerman and Helmund deserts, and through the caravan towns of the old Silk Road - both powers scrambling to control access to the riches of India and the East. When play first began, the frontiers of Russia and British India lay 2000 miles apart; by the end, this distance had shrunk to 20 miles at some points.