Niall Ferguson: Empire (How Britain Made the Modern World) – Heaven’s Breed

From the Channel 4 television series by Niall Ferguson (one of this seminar’s “new imperialists”), which accompanies his book by the same title. This part deals with the history of India in the British empire, the reign of Queen Victoria, and the invention of new communications technologies that “annihilated distance”.

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About Maximilian Forte

I am a professor of anthropology at a university in Montreal, Canada. My areas of interest are public anthropology, digital activism, imperialism and decolonization, militarism and militarization, soft power and media propaganda, and social transformation.
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