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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.
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.