Empire how britain made the modern world / (Record no. 15643)
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| fixed length control field | 02372nam a2200193 a 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | ASIN0141007540 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20170105102922.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 131209s2004 xxu eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0141007540 (paperback) |
| Terms of availability | $13.50 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780141007540 (paperback) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | 0 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Ferguson, Niall. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Empire how britain made the modern world / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Niall Ferguson. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | [S.l.] : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Penguin Group(CA), |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2004. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 422 p. ; |
| Dimensions | 20 cm. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Niall Ferguson's bestselling "Empire" is the compelling story of how the British empire rose to power - and why it finally fell. Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic achieve all this? And why did the empire on which the sun literally never set finally decline and fall? Niall Ferguson's acclaimed "Empire" brilliantly unfolds the imperial story in all its splendours and its miseries, showing how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers planted the seed of the biggest empire in all history - and set the world on the road to modernity. "The most brilliant British historian of his generation...Ferguson examines the roles of "pirates, planters, missionaries, mandarins, bankers and bankrupts" in the creation of history's largest empire ...he writes with splendid panache ...and a seemingly effortless, debonair wit". (Andrew Roberts). "Dazzling ...wonderfully readable". ("New York Review of Books"). "A remarkably readable precis of the whole British imperial story - triumphs, deceits, decencies, kindnesses, cruelties and all". (Jan Morris). ""Empire" is a pleasure to read and brims with insights and intelligence". ("Sunday Times"). Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the bestselling author of "Civilization", "The House of Rothschild", "The Cash Nexus", "The Pity of War", "Colossus", "The War of the World" and "The Ascent of Money". |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Amazon.com |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0141007540/chopaconline-20">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0141007540/chopaconline-20</a> |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | |
| Koha item type | Book |
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| Centre for International Peace & Stability (CIPS) | Centre for International Peace & Stability (CIPS) | General Stacks | 10/02/2013 | 325.341 FER 2004 | CIPS0002013 | 12/09/2013 | 12/09/2013 | Book |