| Edition |
[First American edition]. |
| Description |
554 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book." |
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The first volume of the author's trilogy; the subsequent volumes are: Pax Britannica; Farewell the trumpets. |
| Contents |
The sentiment of empire : 1837-1850. A charming invention : Victoria's accession, victorious Britain and the latent sense of empire ; High and holy work : slavery and the improving instinct ; Sweet lives : Boers and the interfering instinct ; Roots into their soil : Thuggee and the reforming instinct ; Laws of war : the great game, and the invasion of Afghanistan ; Merchant venturing : with the imperialists of Hudson's Bay ; White settlers : Lord Durham and the colonials ; An act of God : the Irish famine, a negation of empire ; 'What a fine man!' : character and the growth of power -- The growing conviction : 1850-1870. Grooves of change : technology and the British empire ; The epic of the race : the Indian mutiny ; Pan and Mr Gladstone : an Adriatic interlude ; The imperial style : taking a Gothic turn ; Illustrious for the Nile : exploration and the death of Speke ; Governor Eyre : 'Old 'Angsman' and the Jamaica rebellion ; 'Ain't the Pentateuch queer?' : religion and the British empire ; The humiliation of the Metis : the subjection of an alien culture ; In the Pacific : sailing safe in the American ocean -- The imperial obsession : 1870-1897. A fixed purpose : the ideology of empire ; Ashanti : into black Africa ; By the sword : armies, fleets and British belligerence ; South of the Zambesi : a failure of logic, with battle scenes ; The end of the Tasmanians : the obliteration of a subject race ; The rebel prince : Charles Stewart Parnell ; The martyr of empire : Charles George Gordon ; Scramble for Africa : coarsening the imperial idea ; An imperial fulfillment : Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, triumphant Britain and a suggestion of the Last Day. |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- Colonies -- History.
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Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901.
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| ISBN |
015139900X |
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9780151399000 |
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