A review by mrvm
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson

3.0

I love studying, reading, and talking about Imperialism, especially the British Empire. I believe that the empire is great, and has done a lot of good, but I can still see the harm it has done, unlike Ferguson. He focus so much on why the empire was so fantastic that he is convinced that nothing bad happened, because he does not acknowledge this, as a historian and a person, I think his argument is not fully made. Yes, as historians were are supposed to acknowledge our biases to the reader, and he does, and use that to shape a bit of our argument, because history is subjective, but we can't ignore the other side of e argument all together. Overall it is a good read, but, I say this as a historian who studies British imperialism, take it with a bit of salt.