{"id":429,"date":"2003-08-01T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-01T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=429"},"modified":"2010-06-13T17:44:35","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T21:44:35","slug":"429","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0465023282\/tomleslieca-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0465023282.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Empire\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"108\" height=\"140\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Book City is a very dangerous store, which cleverly and prominently displays books like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0465023282\/tomleslieca-20\">Empire:  The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power<\/a> where innocent browsers like me will see them.  I couldn&#8217;t resist.  Niall Ferguson is apparently the new prodigy in the British historican field, and Empire is a beautiful and extremely well-written book.  It drips with detail but is far fresher and more interesting to read than any textbook.  The maps, photos and paintings included are well-chosen and do a lot to support the narrative.  Only the conclusion section seems weak and under-cooked:  there&#8217;s no modern detail included to support his theory that the American empire is similar in many ways to the British Empire, so the &#8220;lessons for global power&#8221; fall flat.  Still a great book, well worth the read.  4 out of 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book City is a very dangerous store, which cleverly and prominently displays books like Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power where innocent browsers like me will see them. I couldn&#8217;t resist. Niall Ferguson is apparently the new prodigy in the British historican field, and Empire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}