Niall Ferguson: Empire - A 30-Minute Summary

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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.

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In summary: the British Empire was 'neither entirely bad, nor entirely good', but left the world much better off in nearly every respect than if it had never existed. Its failings were the failings of all other contemporaneous empires with which it competed, while its achievements in medicine, science, technology, education, finance & economics, law & justice, incorruptible administration, and in developing concepts like individual rights, representative government, and rule of law, constituted a significant leap forward in human civilisation.

[AbelTravel]

I just discovered your channel. Thanks for the summary of an interesting book by a great author.

[palemale]

It would have been more balanced to mention that Britain traded fewer slaves than Holland or Portugal, and that they were initially enslaved by fellow African rival tribal chiefs. And mention that Atlantic slavery was less than the Arabic slave trade which started much sooner and longer, and that slavery has been around sibce before the Egyptians and (modern) slavery still goes on today.

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I’ve read the book and this isn’t a very accurate summary. Whoever summarised it seems more concerned with projecting their own prejudices than accurately portraying the author’s views as they were written.