Dutifully mentions downsides and excesses, but this is basically a vanilla history of the Empire

Review of Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson

Today, rather than ideological diatribes about colonialism, revisionist histories are appearing based on fresh evidence, perhaps the best of them is Legacy of Violence. They portray the colonial period as one of destruction that corrupted the mother country as they repressed the culture and will of subject peoples. There is a lot to this, but I wanted a…