Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (平装)
分類: 图书,进口原版书,History(历史),World(世界),
品牌: Niall Ferguson
基本信息出版社:Penguin (2004年4月29日)平装:464页正文语种:英语ISBN:0141007540条形码:9780141007540产品尺寸及重量:19.6 x 13 x 3 cm ; 386 gASIN:0141007540
商品描述内容简介This astoundingly successful, superbly reviewed book vividly recreates the excitement, brutality and adventure of the British Empire. Ferguson's most revolutionary and popular work, "Empire" is a major reinterpretation of the British Empire as one of the world's greatest modernising forces. It shows on a vast canvas how the British Empire in the 19th Century spearheaded real globalisation with steampower, telegraphs, guns, engineers, missionaries and millions of settlers.作者简介Niall Ferguson is Professor of International History at Harvard University, Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author of the best-selling War of the World