Unfinished Empire

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Unfinished Empire
Unfinished Empire
Author : John Darwin
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Publisher : Penguin UK
Language : English
Release Date : 06 September 2012
ISBN : 9781846146718
Pages : 496 pages
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Unfinished Empire by John Darwin Book PDF Summary

A both controversial and comprehensive historical analysis of how the British Empire worked, from Wolfson Prize-winning author and historian John Darwin The British Empire shaped the world in countless ways: repopulating continents, carving out nations, imposing its own language, technology and values. For perhaps two centuries its expansion and final collapse were the single largest determinant of historical events, and it remains surrounded by myth, misconception and controversy today. John Darwin's provocative and richly enjoyable book shows how diverse, contradictory and in many ways chaotic the British Empire really was, controlled by interests that were often at loggerheads, and as much driven on by others' weaknesses as by its own strength.

Unfinished Empire

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