The classical world : an epic history of Greece and Rome (New [ed.])

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.