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Penguin Celebrations: Unique voices, enthralling stories and quite simply the best books of their kind to be published in recent years. There are 36 to collect. 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.‘A brilliant book … full of energy, imagination and curiosity’ ‘A remarkably readable précis of the whole British imperial story – triumphs, deceits, decencies, kindnesses, cruelties and all’ ‘Dazzling … wonderfully readable’ ‘Empire is a pleasure to read and brims with insights and intelligence’ ‘An enormous saga … crammed with the kind of anecdotes that leave the reader wanting more’
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