Empire

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In a major six-part series, Oxford Professor Niall Ferguson tells the full and spectacular story of the rise and fall of the British Empire. How did our own small, rainy island in the North Atlantic come to rule a quarter of the planet? And how, in the process, did it create so many of the key institutions of the modern world? From North America to the Caribbean, India to Australia and Singapore to Zambia, the Empire gave a common language, it globalised capitalism, and made democracy the yardstick by which all government would be judged.

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