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Pax Britannica – The Climax of an Empire (Pax Britannica, Vol. 2) (Unabridged)

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2011
13 Volumes
226 Tracks

17:03:05

Pax Britannica – The Climax of an Empire (Pax Britannica, Vol. 2) (Unabridged)

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Volume 1

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Introduction by Jan Morris

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Pax Britannica – The British Empire 1897

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Chapter 1: The Heirs of Rome

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 2: The crowds outside waited in proud excitement…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 3: Many and varied energies had swept the British…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Among the better-informed…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 4: Within two minutes, we are told…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 5: More gratifying still was the tribute of the Empire itself.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 6: The procession itself was a superb display…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 7: Everybody agreed it was a great success.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Chapter 2: Palm and Pine

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 2: Outside this heterogeneous mass there shone…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 3: All this the British people surveyed…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 4: So they were motley origins…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 5: Never since the world began, Seeley had written…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 6: So it looked to the British.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Chapter 3: Life-lines

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 2: A favourite map of the time was the kind that showed…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 3: Elaborate systems of supply, defence and communication…

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Volume 2

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): The British held key ports and maritime fortresses…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 4: Backwards and forwards along the imperial shipping lanes…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 5: The British had invented submarine cables…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 6: All this vast expertise, of ships and mails…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Chapter 4: Migrations

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 2: Emigration to the Empire was officially popular.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 3: If the Empire dispersed the British…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 4: As for the flora and fauna…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 5: It multiplied so fast that its progeny became a plague…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 6: Saddest of all, in their irrepressible impulse to control…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Chapter 5: Pioneers

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 2: It was a sign of the imperial times that Rhodesia…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 3: 'As for us,' said the Rhodesia Herald…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 4: The Company had been, it is true, under a cloud…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 5: These were the homely pleasures of a frontier town…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 6: But far lower even than the vagrants in the social scale…

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Volume 3

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 7: Salisbury was scarcely a sentimental town.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Chapter 6: The Profit

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 2: In the 1890s this atavistic view of imperial profit…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 3: Trade was a steadier imperial impulse…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): The free ports of the Empire…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 4: It was a common belief among the late Victorians…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 5: Such was the profit-mechanism of Empire…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 6: So all these various instincts and impulses of profit…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Chapter 7: The Glory

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 2: The Empire was at its zenith…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 3: Dreams of private glory, too, forced the imperial play…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 4: What incentives they were!

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 5: Many years before Dr. Livingstone had laid another trail…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 6: The evangelical mood was now past its prime…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 7: On a Governmental level…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 8: And there was one more stimulus to splendour…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Chapter 8: Caste

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): The joke that 'niggers began at Calais' was not entirely a joke.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 3: But to be coloured was something else.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 4: By the nineties the attitude had hardened.

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Volume 4

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): In England those who believed the East could be…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 5: The immediate problems of race arose only…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 6: Yet this very class of Anglicized Asians and Africans…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 7: Among the settlers and planters of the tropical Empire…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 8: A vassal could qualify for respect…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 9: On the banks of the Hooghly River in Calcutta…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 10: For it was not viciousness, nor even simply conceit…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 11: Steevens's unspeakable conceit might speak…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Chapter 9: Islanders

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 2: Like many another island fortress it had endured…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 3: It was a colony exceptional in its beauty…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 4: It was quite an elaborate little Government…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 5: A mile or so from Government House…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 6: Often, when a merchant ship approached the entrance…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 7: St. Lucia's Diamond Jubilee accordingly…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 8: But then a feu de joie, commented the Voice sourly…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 9: Brigade-Surgeon Gouldsbury never returned to St. Lucia…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Chapter 10: Imperial Order

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Volume 5

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 2: The one immoveable thing about it was the Crown.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 3: The Crown at the very summit…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 4: From the graceful little iron suspension bridge…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 5: It was an imperial maxim…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 6: Steeped in the traditions of the team spirit…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 7: Top jobs in the Empire sometimes went to grandees…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 8: The law was different.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 9: Loftily above it all, the supreme fount of imperial justice…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 10: Not the law as such, but the rule of law…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Chapter 11: Imperial Complexity

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 2: At one end were the great self-governing colonies…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 3: Nothing was uniform.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 4: Consider the island of Ascension…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 5: Here are a few less spectacular anomalies of Empire.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 6: And oddest of all the imperial phenomena was Egypt.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 7: Paddling up the Nile with Oxford marmalade…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 8: It was all bits and pieces.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Chapter 12: Imperialists in General

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Volume 6

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 2: Nobody, of course, runs so true to type as that.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 3: The aristocracy of Empire was the official class…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 4: Poor Anglo-Indians!

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 5: They walked dolorously to and fro under the glare…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 6: Among the white settlers everywhere…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 7: The maverick patrician escaped all this…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Chapter 13: Imperialists in Particular

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 2: The age of the great explorers was almost over…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 3: There were only three British soldiers…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): The second soldier of the Empire was…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 4: Alone among the admirals of the imperial Navy…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 5: Of the proconsuls in the field of Empire that summer…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 6: Two politicians of very different stamp…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Salisbury was a remote enigma to the British public.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 7: The men Kipling called 'the doers' were mostly unknown…

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Volume 7

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Rhodes was first of all a money-maker.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 8: There were other exceptional imperialists…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Chapter 14: Proconsuls

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 2: Simla in 1897 was one of the most extraordinary places…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 3: In the morning Simla seemed different again…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 4: Seven thousand feet up, eighty miles from a railway line…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 5: The British Government in India was a despotism…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 6: So from top to bottom…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 7: But however original the young officers in the field…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 8: The Viceroy knew that his was a unique imperial trust.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 9: It was a bad year in India…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Chapter 15: Consolations

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 2: Sport was the first.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 3: Drink came next – food did not interest them half so much.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 4: They liked their creature comforts…

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Volume 8

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): In Australia the clubs very early became strongholds…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 5: Throughout the length and breadth of the Empire…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 6: They had developed to a new pitch of finesse…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 7: They enjoyed themselves with tourism.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 8: One easily detects pathos in these pleasures.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Chapter 16: Challenge and Responses

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 2: But one of the most enviable advantages…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 3: For a century living dangerously, or alone…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 4: Into the mystique of every British settlement…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 5: But there was to this great communal exploit…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Chapter 17: Stones of Empire

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 2: Supreme in every imperial city stood the house of God…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 3: Next to the house of God, the home of the Empire-builder.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 4: Public buildings of the most august elaboration…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 5: One day in 1836 Colonel William Light…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 6: The British, who generally neglected their waterfronts…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 7: 'The Maharajah gave the order…'

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Volume 9

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): The British had a genius for parks…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 8: The garden instinct of the English did not always survive…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Chapter 18: Tribal Lays and Images

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 2: No English Delacroix arose…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 3: Few other professional painters made the Empire…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 4: Most of the statues in the British Empire…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 5: But they were mostly of the Queen.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 6: Marches and oratorios, fanfares and even ballets…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 7: The difficulty about imperialism as a literary motif…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 8: Out of the frenzy three writers emerge…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Yet the third of our writers, a short-sighted journalist…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Nobody saw more clearly through the petty pretences…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 9: In literature as in art…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Chapter 19: All by Steam!

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 2: The British Empire was a development agency…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 3: Some of the imperial works really were on the colossal scale.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 4: But this was the railway age…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 5: There was no grand plan for the railways of the Empire.

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Volume 10

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): In India especially…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 6: In the last three decades of the century…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 7: They were making a start with tropical medicine.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 8: One gets the unfortunate impression…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 9: The natives saw this millennium, and it worked.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Chapter 20: Freedmen

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 2: Canada was still a colony of the British Empire.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 3: The imperial hegemony was tactfully exerted.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 4: Canada had become a nation, of a sort…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 5: The first Europeans in Canada were the French…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 6: The British Canadians were loyal to the Crown…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 7: An English Canadian, W.H. Drummond…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 8: They did not, for example, throw squibs at the Jubilee…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 9: It was not a contented country.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Chapter 21: On Guard

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 2: The land forces of the Empire were drawn…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 3: The Army List of 1897 records only nine…

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Volume 11

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 4: This was not a promising formula for modern war…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 5: But also at the Queen's command stood another army…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 6: It was in India that the martial heroism of Empire…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 7: No other imperial war had left memories so hallowed…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 8: Between them the two armies of the British Empire…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Chapter 22: At Sea

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 2: The Royal Navy did not lack self-esteem.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 3: These were the extravagances of a lost age…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 4: The social structure of the Navy…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 5: British naval strategy, such as it was…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Chapter 23: Imperial Effects

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 2: Let us ourselves, guide in hand, wander around London…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 3: And if, like every other visitor, we finally strolled…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 4: The New Imperialism was too new…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 5: Half without knowing it, the British had picked up…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 6: In 1882 there appeared in the list of English cat breeds…

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Volume 12

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 7: A shifting population of colonials moved through London.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 8: If the physical imprint of Empire was slight…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 9: The New Imperialism was potent politics.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 10: But cause and effect were often muddled…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 11: So the foreigner's first impression was right in a way.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Chapter 24: Overlords

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 2: Implanted in this melancholy setting were the Anglo-Irish…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 3: Many Anglo-Irish were understandably distressed…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 4: The Cadogans stood, ex officio…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 5: This queer regime remained undeterred…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 6: Much more permanent were the barracks…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 7: Of all the cities the British had created across the waters…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 8: Ireland was the only one of the Queen's dominions…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 9: 'Everything was orderly and peaceable,'…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 10: The Irish Times blushed.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 11: The noblest cause? Treason or patriotism?

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Chapter 25: Omens

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 2: If precedents were anything to go by…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 3: Would the barbarians one day take over?

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Volume 13

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): But it was the sea that counted.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 4: On Jubilee evening the Governor of Bombay…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 5: In Egypt almost nobody wanted the British to stay…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 6: Everything was under control…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 7: Was it all worth it?

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 8: But in that celebratory summer any weakening…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 9: It was not to be.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Chapter 26: 'The Song on Your Bugles Blown'

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 2: Was it a Christian Empire?

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 3: Yet there was no rule to it.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 4: A less involved imperial principle…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 5: Plain Englishness, in those days, was a principle.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 6: To many Britons this was not enough.

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 7: But if in some corners of the Empire…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 8: This was the saving flaw of British imperialism…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): Chapter 27: Finale

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 2: So their pride was understandable…

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    Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Unabridged): 3: The New Imperialism quickly subsided.

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