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  1. Niall Ferguson _ Empire: How Britain Made the

    Sir Richard Turnbull, the penultimate Governor of Aden, once told Labour politician Denis Healey that 'when the British Empire finally sank beneath the waves of history, it would leave behind it only two monuments: one was the game of Association Football, the other was the expression "Fuck off".'
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  2. Niall Ferguson _ Empire: How Britain Made the

    In the end, the British sacrificed her Empire to stop the Germans, Japanese and Italians from keeping theirs. Did not that sacrifice alone expunge all the Empire's other sins?
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  3. Niall Ferguson _ Empire: How Britain Made the

    At around the same time, the coffee house owner Thomas Garraway published a broadsheet entitled 'An Exact Description of the Growth, Quality and Vertues of the Leaf TEA', in which he claimed that it could cure 'Headache, Stone, Gravel, Dropsy, Liptitude Distillations, Scurvy, Sleepiness, Loss of Memory, Looseness or Griping of the Guts, Heavy Dreams and Collick proceeding from Wind'.
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  4. Niall Ferguson _ Empire: How Britain Made the

    In the early 1950s, Harold Macmillan declared that the choice facing the country was between 'the slide into a shoddy and slushy Socialism {as a second-rate power}, or the march to the third British Empire'. After Suez only the first option seemed to remain.
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  5. Niall Ferguson _ Empire: How Britain Made the

    Just as Hitler had predicted, it was rival empires more than indigenous nationalists who propelled the process of decolonization forward.
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  6. Niall Ferguson _ Empire: How Britain Made the

    The British had built railways across their Empire with the labour of Asian 'coolies'. Now, in one of the great symbolic reversals of world history, the Japanese forced 60,000 British and Australian PoWs – as well as Dutch prisoners and conscripted Indian labour – to construct 250 miles of railway through the mountainous jungle on the Thai-Burmese border.
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  7. Niall Ferguson _ Empire: How Britain Made the

    Though we hear much less about it, India had made a bigger contribution to the imperial war than Australia in terms of both finance and manpower.
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  8. Niall Ferguson _ Empire: How Britain Made the

    Only after Eden agreed to leave Egypt unconditionally did Eisenhower arrange a billion-dollar rescue package from the IMF and the Export-Import Bank.
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  9. Niall Ferguson _ Empire: How Britain Made the

    Today 350 million people speak English as their first language and around 450 million have it as a second language. That is roughly one in every seven people on the planet.
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  10. Niall Ferguson _ Empire: How Britain Made the

    Without the spread of British rule around the world, it is hard to believe that the structures of liberal capitalism would have been so successfully established in so many different economies around the world.
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  11. Niall Ferguson _ Empire: How Britain Made the

    If our ancestors had cared for the rights of other people,' he had reminded his Cabinet colleagues in 1878, 'the British Empire would not have been made.
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  12. Niall Ferguson _ Empire: How Britain Made the

    an Empire-less Britain would be just a 'cold and unimportant little island where we should all have to work very hard and live mainly on herring and potatoes'.
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