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

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Item number	NA0037
Barcode	9781843794714
Release date	7/1/2011
Category	Spoken Word
Label	NAXOS AUDIO BOOKS
Media type	COMPACT DISC
Number of units	6

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Booklet Author	McMillan, Roy

Disc: 1
1	Introduction read by Jan Morris	00:03:51	McMillan, Roy
2	Pax Britannica – The Climax of an Empire	00:07:07	McMillan, Roy
3	Within two minutes we are told…	00:04:31	McMillan, Roy
4	The Diamond Jubilee crystallized the new conceptio	00:06:56	McMillan, Roy
5	Most Englishmen asked what it was all about…	00:05:31	McMillan, Roy
6	To other nations the imperial methods often seemed	00:06:58	McMillan, Roy
7	The British had invented submarine cables…	00:06:03	McMillan, Roy
8	The movement of people out of the British islands…	00:06:29	McMillan, Roy
9	As for the flora and fauna…	00:06:50	McMillan, Roy
10	Beneath a low kopje on the Makabusi River…	00:06:12	McMillan, Roy
11	The Company had been, it is true, under a cloud…	00:04:00	McMillan, Roy
12	But far lower even than the vagrants in the social	00:02:35	McMillan, Roy
13	The infatuated British public did not greatly conc	00:04:35	McMillan, Roy
14	Trade was a steadier imperial impulse…	00:07:07	McMillan, Roy

Disc: 2
1	Such was the profit-mechanism of Empire…	00:06:15	McMillan, Roy
2	Many years before Dr. Livingstone had laid another	00:04:22	McMillan, Roy
3	The evangelical mood was now past its prime…	00:04:14	McMillan, Roy
4	And there was one more stimulus to splendour…	00:06:02	McMillan, Roy
5	Another cause of racialism was fundamentalist reli	00:05:06	McMillan, Roy
6	The British distrusted the product of this system…	00:07:26	McMillan, Roy
7	We have been speaking of the general…	00:06:23	McMillan, Roy
8	Like many another island fortress…	00:06:17	McMillan, Roy
9	Socially St. Lucia tended to dwell upon a past…	00:05:19	McMillan, Roy
10	'No Caesar or Charlemagne,' Disraeli once said…	00:05:29	McMillan, Roy
11	Below Parliament, and subject to its Secretaries o	00:04:29	McMillan, Roy
12	It was an imperial maxim that the administrators o	00:05:24	McMillan, Roy
13	All over the Empire these administrators…	00:06:51	McMillan, Roy
14	Some of the greatest British jurists had presided…	00:05:29	McMillan, Roy

Disc: 3
1	Consider the island of Ascension…	00:06:14	McMillan, Roy
2	The imperial complexity was all too apparent…	00:02:52	McMillan, Roy
3	When Kipling first went east from India…	00:07:56	McMillan, Roy
4	By now the merchants of Empire, no less than the g	00:05:18	McMillan, Roy
5	Among the white settlers everywhere…	00:05:15	McMillan, Roy
6	The age of the great explorers was almost over…	00:04:00	McMillan, Roy
7	There were only three British soldiers whose perso	00:06:43	McMillan, Roy
8	Two politicians of very different stamp set the pa	00:06:51	McMillan, Roy
9	Northward from the Punjabi village of Kalka…	00:06:21	McMillan, Roy
10	The British Government in India was a despotism…	00:05:27	McMillan, Roy
11	The Viceroy knew that his was a unique imperial tr	00:06:11	McMillan, Roy
12	The New Imperialism was born out of a medley of mo	00:06:43	McMillan, Roy
13	They liked their creature comforts…	00:05:06	McMillan, Roy

Disc: 4
1	Throughout the length and breadth of the Empire…	00:05:36	McMillan, Roy
2	They had developed to a new pitch of finesse…	00:06:06	McMillan, Roy
3	Much of the driving force of imperialism…	00:06:18	McMillan, Roy
4	But there was to this great communal exploit…	00:05:31	McMillan, Roy
5	It was by their buildings that earlier Empires wer	00:07:37	McMillan, Roy
6	One day in 1836 Colonel William Light…	00:06:10	McMillan, Roy
7	The British had a genius for parks.	00:05:02	McMillan, Roy
8	Most of the statues in the British Empire…	00:05:58	McMillan, Roy
9	The difficulty about imperialism as a literary mot	00:04:52	McMillan, Roy
10	Yet the third of our writers, a short-sighted jour	00:04:51	McMillan, Roy
11	In literature as in art, the British settlers over	00:03:05	McMillan, Roy
12	Among the waters of the Indus Basin…	00:06:34	McMillan, Roy
13	But this was the railway age – its tail-end in Bri	00:06:49	McMillan, Roy
14	They were making a start with tropical medicine.	00:04:14	McMillan, Roy

Disc: 5
1	In 1897 the most-frequented route into the goldfie	00:05:44	McMillan, Roy
2	Canada was still a colony of the British Empire…	00:04:34	McMillan, Roy
3	The first Europeans in Canada were the French…	00:07:30	McMillan, Roy
4	The Pax Britannica was not a boastful fraud.	00:06:04	McMillan, Roy
5	But also at the Queen's command stood another army	00:06:00	McMillan, Roy
6	The great shrine of the epic…	00:05:55	McMillan, Roy
7	To every right-thinking Englishman the Army was on	00:05:01	McMillan, Roy
8	In materiel, too, the Royal Navy was deficient in	00:03:53	McMillan, Roy
9	Let us ourselves, guide in hand, wander around Lon	00:07:28	McMillan, Roy
10	The New Imperialism was too new, and too sudden…	00:05:46	McMillan, Roy
11	A shifting population of colonials moved through L	00:04:15	McMillan, Roy
12	But cause and effect were often muddled…	00:05:23	McMillan, Roy
13	By Telford's road or Stephenson's railway line…	00:04:57	McMillan, Roy
14	The British in Ireland did not think of themselves	00:06:14	McMillan, Roy

Disc: 6
1	Of all the cities the British had created across t	00:04:58	McMillan, Roy
2	Where there was not actual opposition…	00:04:40	McMillan, Roy
3	If precedents were anything to go by…	00:04:56	McMillan, Roy
4	Some of its foreign critics were merely jealous.	00:04:28	McMillan, Roy
5	The fashionable New Imperialist theory…	00:02:52	McMillan, Roy
6	Was it a Christian Empire?	00:03:36	McMillan, Roy
7	Buried away among it all was a conviction…	00:03:57	McMillan, Roy
8	The British missed no opportunity to demonstrate t	00:05:35	McMillan, Roy
9	In these years African chiefs of savage splendour…	00:04:25	McMillan, Roy
10	But if in some corners of the British Empire…	00:04:04	McMillan, Roy
11	Queen Victoria went home happy on her Jubilee Day.	00:05:10	McMillan, Roy

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