So how was it that in little over a century the people that thought of themselves as the freest on earth ended up subjugating much of the world's population? How was it that a nation with such a deep mistrust of military power ended up the biggest military power of all? How was it that the empire of the free turned into the empire of the slaves? And how was it that profit seemed to turn not on freedom but on raw coercion? How was it that we ended up with the wrong empire?

Simon Schama

Ariyon Bakare

Richard Griffiths

Simon Schama traces the steps of the empire-makers to tell the extraordinary story of how this small set of islands came to rule an empire that stretched around the globe.

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The Wrong Empire

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