Niall Ferguson - Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World - White Plague 1/5

[ashleylloyd8]

I was in class.

And the song at 6:22 got my attention.

Please, what is the name of it?

[ChaosDynamics]

This documentary doesn't consider how the Irish help civilise Britannia after the fall of the Roman Empire - it's a fact that a lot of British tend to look over - the British didn't make it alone. In fact if the Christian Irish weren't so placid in nature 1400 years ago the history of the Isles would have been completely different. The notion of Ireland being "barbaric" is highly biased. It was only considered barbaric in that it didn't adhere to the same cultural traditions as England.

[ulizinho]

@ChaosDynamics

the book is not about how English culture is composed: Irish, Anglo-Saxons, Celtic, Vikings from Scandinavia and the Normans from France, the Romans and who else.

The book is about, how Britain built the Empire. Ferguson writes indeed about how Ireland became the first english colony and how Scots and Irish contributed to the Empire.

[ChaosDynamics]

@ChaosDynamics

Well the Irish certainly weren't barbaric as he tries to make out - that was the thing that annoyed me the most.

[thewhitethorn]

This is what you get putting a scotchman in charge of history. Why start at Ulster if not to perpetuate the LIE that America was colonized mainly by scotch and irish and to write the English out of the narrative? Yeah LIES - like the 'scots-irish' myth. The families transplanted to Ulster from BOTH sides of the English/Scottish border were of ENGLISH (German) descent. Lies about America's south, built by the English and, only to a degree, Scots. The irish stayed further North. Fuck the media.

[Deadeye012011]

@thewhitethorn i agree with you how the fuck could most of the people who originaly conlonized America have been mostly Irish and Scots when the North Eastern region was named New England cant imagin Scots or Irish calling it that this is a warped view of history and totally ignores the far larger English and German migration .

[gmhendry73]

@thewhitethorn no such thing as a scotchman. it is scotsman. and mr ferguson is a highly regarded educated academic at that. the richard dawkins of history. it does make me chuckle at what youtube has become. what was once an innovative information medium has become corrupted by the commments from those less educated than the documentry host. have you read the book? in other words get it right up ye.

[gmhendry73]

@gmhendry73 aye and we just voted to get the snp in again and to get to vote for independance and break away from the empire! and we did it in a democracy without riots or bullets.

[bmclaughlin01]

@thewhitethorn - I don't believe he is actually saying that. Perhaps you should read his book, i.e, engage brain before making such stupid remarks.

[albc1964]

One contribution the British Empire made that readly comes to mind would the book called The King James Bible. Its still being read after all these years by many truth seekers; I could be wrong but what do you think ?

[51wins]

think the documentary is misleading for example...the plantation wasn't about religion. Londonderry was built for settlers, those kept outside the walls weren't kept out because they were catholic they were kept out because they were natives and although often both got on well sometimes violence could start so it was unsafe to have them inside settler towns.

The native Irish weren't all Roman Catholics anyway many still had pagan beliefs.

[cityflyguy]

Just to help anyone out, the correct order is: Episode 1= Why Britain?, E2= White Plague, E3= The Mission, E4= Heavens Breed, E5= Maxim Force, E6 Empire for Sale

[dislocateyourself]

@cityflyguy thanks man.

[talelendil]

ireland haha