Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (2003)

How did Britain come to rule the world? asks Niall Ferguson in Empire. What would today's world be like now if it hadn't? Could such an organisation – run by, according to Winston Churchill, 'the greedy trader, the inopportune missionary, the ambitious soldier and the lying spectator' – ever have been a force for good?

Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World

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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    Why britain?

  • 1x2

    White plague

  • 1x3

    The mission

  • 1x4

    Heaven's breed

  • 1x5

    Maxim force

  • 1x6

    Empire for sale

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