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This is a very good book. It is clearly set out and deals with ten themes including how colonies started, settler-native interactions, trade, war, and rebellion. Every chapter is an excellent introduction to that branch of history and there are plenty of academic references. The book is generally well-written with a balance between anecdote and data. There are few readers who will fail to gain significant knowledge from this book. The book attempts to be scrupulously fair and avoid the bias that others have seen in offerings by Ferguson on one side and Tharoor on the other. I did not agree with everything in this book and some valuable sources seem to be omitted and others accepted uncritically, but in a book with such a wide scope, these mild failings are to be expected. The book loses a star because it is written in a very small font-necessitated by the Penguin paperback format. Possibly because of this, there is also a shortage of charts and graphs- often I would like to see them set out clearly rather than having to trawl through text. The author is an acknowledged expert on the break-up of the British Empire and this section is strong. This book was excellent value for money and wellworth the time spent in reading it.Read full review
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One of the best one volume book about how the British Empire was built and its development. You can learn why it was an unfinished project and the way Great Britain influenced the whole world.
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