How Britain Made the Modern World

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Historian Niall Ferguson narrated a six-part series on “How Britain Made the Modern World,” based on his book of the same title. “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?