(Penguin Celebrations series). Brilliantly revisiting the story of Britain's imperial history, EMPIRE shows how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers from a rainy island in the North Atlantic came to build the most powerful empire in all history, how it endwed, and how it made the world what it is today. Bibliography, Index. Illus. 422p.
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(Penguin Celebrations series). Brilliantly revisiting the story of Britain's imperial history, EMPIRE shows how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers from a rainy island in the North Atlantic came to build the most powerful empire in all history, how it endwed, and how it made the world what it is today. Bibliography, Index. Illus. 422p.