Empire
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Recreates the excitement, brutality and adventure of the British Empire. This book aims to provide a reinterpretation of the British Empire as one of the world's greatest modernising forces. It shows how the British Empire in the 19th Century spearheaded globalisation with steampower, telegraphs, guns, engineers and missionaries.
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The topic is very interesting and the book highlights meaningful connections between historical events, making it easy to understand the big picture and the overall context.
However, the author's opinion comes through quite strongly, in what it seems in more than one instance a defense of the empire and the potential inevitability of more empires in the future.
It also glosses over the empire territories in the far east compared to the rest, and it feels like the first part of the book is more thought out compared to the rest.
