Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is a Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. The bestselling author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire and Colossus, he also writes regularly for newspapers and magazines all over the world. Since 2003 he has written and presented three highly successful television documentary series for Channel Four- Empire, American Colossus and, most recently, The War of the World. He, his wife and three children divide their time between the United Kingdom and the United States.
Dazzling ... wonderfully readable
*New York Review of Books*
A remarkably readable précis of the whole British imperial story -
triumphs, deceits, decencies, kindnesses, cruelties and all
*Jan Morris*
Thrilling ... an extraordinary story
*Daily Mail*
Empire is a pleasure to read and brims with insights and
intelligence
*Sunday Times*
The most brilliant British historian of his generation ... Ferguson
examines the roles of 'pirates, planters, missionaries, mandarins,
bankers and bankrupts' in the creation of history's largest empire
... he writes with splendid panache ... and a seemingly effortless,
debonair wit
*Andrew Roberts*
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