Niall Ferguson - Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World - Empire for Sale 5/5

[mikeypezza]

sacraficed the greatest empire to ever exist to do the right thing and defeat the mighty german empire. makes me shiver. hitler wanted to be our allies sooo bad! and our arsehole american brothers made us pay for all our food and weapons and turned up to the fight last minute :( he should have touched on oil in the end of this!

[BadBrooklyn]

FUCK ALL YOU TEABAG, RED-COATED BRIT PIGS!

[doctorbigtime]

Great post, thanks for sharing!

[merdiolu]

At the end Niall sounds like Empire sacrificed itself with two world wars for alturizm and greater good and morality reasons. It did not. Britain entered both world wars to preserve its Empire not to sacrifice it. Irony : Costs ans social damages caused by these world conflicts actually accelerated Empire's demise...

So except the finale conclusion I think this was a suberp series....

[RedTyphoon1]

@merdiolu He was talking about the second word war, the first world war was about Imperial Rivalry. Hitler was willing to let Britain keep its Empire for a free hand in Europe. If Britain did then it would have kept his Empire, allying with the US in world war 2 actually cost Britain its Empire.

[RedTyphoon1]

@merdiolu He was talking about the second word war, the first world war was about Imperial Rivalry. Hitler was willing to let Britain keep its Empire for a free hand in Europe. If Britain did then it would have kept his Empire, allying with the US in world war 2 actually cost Britain its Empire. Thats what he was talking about.

[jed371]

@merdiolu wrong. britain entered both world wars because of it's century old stratergy of maintaining the balance of power in europe

[dcwF1]

@jed371 Are you kidding?! Britain never really cared much for Europe. France and Germany fought many times while Britain ignored them. It was only when the wars came to them that they had to get involved. For a good 2 centuries there was no real balance of power to maintain: Britain was undisputed number one and there was little anyone could do until Germany rose.

[WarHammer1911A1]

Thanks for putting this up, really enjoyed watching it.

[ahsanjafrri]

not a single positive assessment niall gives at the end of England is true. Not a single one. What peace did they maintain? In India alone, they caused Hyderabad to fight Mysore, they themselves fought four Mysorian wars, two anglo-sikh wars, the maratha war, the battle of plassey, the battle of buxar, the genocide after the 1857 war of indepenence in delhi and the rest of india, the famine of bengal, and over 10 other famines in india throughout their rule!

[RedTyphoon1]

@ahsanjafrri You're an Indian Nationalist No Doubt? Well yes they did bad things but everything India is today is because of the British. English is the only language the unites the country

(there was tensions in the 50s where Hindi was going the sole official language), civil service, administration systems, cricket.

"What peace did they maintain?" - He was talking peace in the 19th Century between the European powers.

[ChorltonBrook]

@RedTyphoon1 There were quite a few wars between European powers in the 19th century.

[RedTyphoon1]

@ChorltonBrook Not on a major scale, there were a number of colonial wars and the Crimean war/Franco-Prussian. There wasn't a large scale major war like the Napoleonic wars, Seven years war or the latter WWI.

[ChorltonBrook]

@RedTyphoon1 Napoleonic wars were from1799 to1815, Belgian Revolt &10 day war, Polish-Russian war, Hungarian war of independence, 1st & 2nd Schelswig war, Italian independence wars ( 1,2 & 3 ) Crimean war, January uprising, Austro-Prussian war, Franco-Prussian war, Russo-Turkish war, Serbo-Bulgarian war, Cold war of 1893-96, First Greco-Turkish war. Not inclueding the wars (Boer etc) involving European soldiers fought outside Europe. They are all wars some major.

[RedTyphoon1]

@ChorltonBrook I agree, but there was never a large scale war where all the European powers went to war with each other like in the Napoleonic wars. In the NW there was an estimated over 3.5 million casualties. It was RELATIVELY Peaceful compared to the 20th Century.

[messengerofdeath2]

Thanks for uploading this. I love all of Niall's documentaries and books

[skiracr2fast4u]

Thank you for uploading this! Marvelous.

[di55illu5ioned]

Excellent! Thanks for uploading.

[louiseobrien2065]

Many thanks BradlehAaron for putting this body of work on youtube.

[Amunication]

anglobalisation lol the poms are always trying to shoehorn their way into everything.

[leoca]

well done niall.

[324wilson]

I just bough his book on the Empire and I am really enjoying it!

[cheyaura]

This film is such a nationalistic propaganda piece.. The British Empire wasn't the people it was the ruling class raping the world and stealing it's wealth. Yeah you should be proud to be British and American pat yourselves on the back for spreading FREE DUM around the world.. Lol yeah the Empire was bankrupt thats why the Crown and their accountants the Rothschilds control the world banks. They are like the boss that says "sorry we had a bad week i'll make it up to you next time"! Suckers!

[PoohShoes]

This was such a great documentary. I'm constantly in awe of the things Britain has achieved throughout the world. I only wish more was taught about our great history in schools. Thank you so much for posting this.

[dasmysteryman12]

Oh, and I hope Britain would restore its former glory, without the cost of total world imperialism that is.

[leoca]

@dasmysteryman12 not going to happen. (see China)

[dasmysteryman12]

Thanks for posting this!

[ian59715]

Best thing to happen to the world

the Empire now what we got?

just a whole lot of countries

with the begging bowl out?

[hegemonymony]

Ok, it's time to restart the British-American Empire.

Who's with me?

[Baledwyr]

I posted this in Part 4 But it's worth doing it again.

It was the Labor Party and the Americans who kicked the crutch out from under and so destroyed a prosperous althought somewhat stuggling empire. We could not afford the welfare state at such a time. Damn Labor, DAMN THEM!

[turxxx]

Thanks for sharing.

[smoochym]

We did okay for "A nation of shopkeepers".

[imangrynow]

Thanks for uploading this its great!

You haven't got Colossus have you? It's the only one of his documentaries i haven't seen.

[BradlehAaron]

Hey, no problem, friend. (:

Ah, 'Colossus.' You know, I've searched everywhere for that, but to no avail.

If I ever do find it, though, you can be sure I'll put it on my page! :D