A review by donzhivago
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson

1.0

For the first time in my life, I am going to open a review with a personal attack on the author:
Niall Ferguson, you are trash.

400 pages of handwaving the copious atrocities of the Empire. In all, the Irish "famine" is provided 3 lines (summary: British laissez faire capitalism didn't respond well... this is seriously it), whereas the treatment of British troops by the Japanese is given over 3 pages.

Multiple times, this living turd exculpates Brits by comparing them favourably with literal Nazis.

He mocks American anti-imperialist attitudes while handwaving actual atrocities.

He fawns over Hitler.

At one point he posits that a homosexual person dreams of getting raped.

This is everything I assumed a British summary of Empire would be. Terrible beyond belief.

Ferguson, you suck.