Britain In The Modern World

Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241958513

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Empire by Niall Ferguson Pdf

Niall Ferguson's acclaimed bestseller on the highs and lows of Britain's empire 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 Arabia. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic achieve all this? And why did the empire on which the sun literally never set finally decline and fall? Niall Ferguson's acclaimed Empire brilliantly unfolds the imperial story in all its splendours and its miseries, showing how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers planted the seed of the biggest empire in all history - and set the world on the road to modernity. '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 '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 'Empire is a pleasure to read and brims with insights and intelligence' Sunday Times

Author : E. N. Nash,A. M. Newth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1967-01-01
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 014080305X

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Britain in the Modern World by E. N. Nash,A. M. Newth Pdf

Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141927725

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Enlightenment by Roy Porter Pdf

For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges France's importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for consideringBritain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentieth-century America. Porter immerses the reader in a society which, recovering from the horrors of the Civil War and decisively reinvigorated by the revolution of 1688, had emerged as something new and extraordinary - a society unlike any other in the world.

Author : E. N. Nash,A. M. Newth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1967-01-01
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 014080305X

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Britain in the Modern World by E. N. Nash,A. M. Newth Pdf

Author : Trevor Burnard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429854989

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Britain in the Wider World by Trevor Burnard Pdf

Britain in the Wider World traces the remarkable transformation of Britain between 1603 and 1800 as it developed into a world power. At the accession of James VI and I to the throne of England in 1603, the kingdoms of England/Wales, Scotland and Ireland were united only by having a monarch in common. They had little presence in the world and were fraught with violence. Two centuries later, the consolidated state of the United Kingdom, established in 1801, was an economic powerhouse and increasingly geopolitically important, with an empire that stretched from the Americas, to Asia and to the Pacific. The book offers a fresh approach to assessing Britain’s evolution, situating Britain within both imperial and Atlantic history, and examining how Britain came together politically and socially throughout the eighteenth century. In particular, it offers a detailed exploration of Britain as a fiscal-military state, able to fight major wars without bankrupting itself. Through studying patterns of political authority and gender relationships, it also stresses the constancy of fundamental features of British society, economy, and politics despite considerable internal changes. Detailed, accessibly written, and enhanced by illustrations, Britain in the Wider World is ideal for students of early modern Britain.

Author : Kwasi Kwarteng
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Decolonization
ISBN : 9781408829004

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Ghosts of Empire by Kwasi Kwarteng Pdf

This fascinating book shows how the later years of the British Empire were characterised by accidental oversights, irresponsible opportunism and uncertain pragmatism.

Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0393048721

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The Creation of the Modern World by Roy Porter Pdf

From a critically acclaimed author comes an engagingly written and groundbreaking new work that highlights the long-underestimated British role in delivering the Enlightenment to the modern world. Porter reveals how the monumental transformation of thinking in Great Britain influenced wider developments elsewhere. of color illustrations.

Author : Andrew Marr
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429931014

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A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr Pdf

A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In each decade, political leaders think they know what they are doing, but find themselves confounded. Every time, the British people turn out to be stroppier and harder to herd than predicted. Throughout, Britain is a country on the edge – first of invasion, then of bankruptcy, then on the vulnerable front line of the Cold War and later in the forefront of the great opening up of capital and migration now reshaping the world. This history follows all the political and economic stories, but deals too with comedy, cars, the war against homosexuals, Sixties anarchists, oil-men and punks, Margaret Thatcher's wonderful good luck, political lies and the true heroes of British theatre.

Author : C. A. Bayly
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0631187995

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The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914 by C. A. Bayly Pdf

This book is a thematic history of the world from 1780, the pivotal year of the revolutionary age, to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. It brings together historical data and arguments from different societies in order to show how interconnected the world was, even before the onset of modern globalization. "The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914 demonstrates how events in Asia, Africa, and South America, from the decline of the eighteenth-century Islamic empires to the anti-European Boxer rebellion of 1900 in China, had a direct impact on European and American history. Conversely, it sketches the "ripple effects" of crises such as the European revolutions and the American Civil War. The book also considers the great themes of the nineteenth-century world: the rise of the modern state, industrialization, liberalism, and the progress of world religions. Engaging and original, this book both challenges and complements the dominant regional and national approaches traditionally adopted by historians.

Author : Arthur Herman
Publisher : Coronet
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 0340734191

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To Rule the Waves by Arthur Herman Pdf

An epic history of the Royal Navy, from the Spanish Armada to the present, that tells the story of how it dominated the world and laid the foundation for the modern age. This is the story of an institution in which courage in battle and bravery in death were a byword, from Nelson's death at Trafalgar to Commander Robert Scott's death in the icy wastes of Antarctica. It is also the story of a military force very different from any other, with a cast of individual personalities, from Sir Frances Drake and Captain James Cook to Charles Darwin and Sir Winston Churchill. But above all, the Royal Navy is part of the story of how one nation rose to global dominance without precedent and without equal, even today. But it also facilitated trade and communication with every other part of the planet. Thanks to its navy, the British Empire became the first truly global community, bound together by law, language, and commerce - and by the 'hearts of oak' of British ships and sailors. It created the first balance of power in Europe and helped to free the Continent from a succession of dictators, from Philip II of Spain and Louis XIV of France to Napoleon and Hitler. commerce, and established the bonds that hold together today's world.

Author : Jon Agar,Jacob Ward
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781911576587

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Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain by Jon Agar,Jacob Ward Pdf

Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a uniquely wide-lens view of how technology and the environment have been intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain over the last 300 years. It combines, for the first time, two perspectives with much to say about Britain since the industrial revolution: the history of technology and environmental history. Technologies are modified environments, just as nature is to varying extents engineered. Furthermore, technologies and our living and non-living environment are both predominant material forms of organisation – and self-organisation – that surround and make us. Both have changed over time, in intersecting ways. Technologies discussed in the collection include bulldozers, submarine cables, automobiles, flood barriers, medical devices, museum displays and biotechnologies. Environments investigated include bogs, cities, farms, places of natural beauty and pollution, land and sea. The book explores this diversity but also offers an integrated framework for understanding these intersections.

Author : Gregory Blue,Martin P. Bunton,Ralph C. Croizier
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0765607719

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Colonialism and the Modern World by Gregory Blue,Martin P. Bunton,Ralph C. Croizier Pdf

Paper by Bruce Kercher traces the legal origins of the doctrine of terra nullius in early court cases in New South Wales.

Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780143125525

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The Great Degeneration by Niall Ferguson Pdf

From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower, a searching and provocative examination of the widespread institutional rot that threatens our collective future What causes rich countries to lose their way? Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, increasing inequality, aging populations, antisocial behavior. But what exactly has gone wrong? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues in The Great Degeneration, is that our institutions—the intricate frameworks within which a society can flourish or fail—are degenerating. With characteristic verve and historical insight, Ferguson analyzes the causes of this stagnation and its profound consequences for the future of the West. The Great Degeneration is an incisive indictment of an era of negligence and complacency—and to arrest the breakdown of our civilization, Ferguson warns, will take heroic leadership and radical reform.

Author : Callum G. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135115531

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The Death of Christian Britain by Callum G. Brown Pdf

The Death of Christian Britain uses the latest techniques to offer new formulations of religion and secularisation and explores what it has meant to be 'religious' and 'irreligious' during the last 200 years. By listening to people's voices rather than purely counting heads, it offers a fresh history of de-christianisation, and predicts that the British experience since the 1960s is emblematic of the destiny of the whole of western Christianity. Challenging the generally held view that secularization has been a long and gradual process beginning with the industrial revolution, it proposes that it has been a catastrophic short term phenomenon starting with the 1960's. Is Christianity in Britain nearing extinction? Is the decline in Britain emblematic of the fate of western Christianity? Topical and controversial, The Death of Christian Britain is a bold and original work that will bring some uncomfortable truths to light.

Author : J. K. Hardman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0003272192

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Britain in the Modern World by J. K. Hardman Pdf