Pax Britannica – The Climax of an Empire (Pax Britannica, Vol. 2) (Abridged)
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Introduction read by Jan Morris |
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Pax Britannica – The Climax of an Empire |
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Within two minutes we are told… |
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The Diamond Jubilee crystallized the new conceptio |
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Most Englishmen asked what it was all about… |
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To other nations the imperial methods often seemed |
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The British had invented submarine cables… |
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The movement of people out of the British islands… |
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As for the flora and fauna… |
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Beneath a low kopje on the Makabusi River… |
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The Company had been, it is true, under a cloud… |
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But far lower even than the vagrants in the social |
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The infatuated British public did not greatly conc |
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Trade was a steadier imperial impulse… |
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Such was the profit-mechanism of Empire… |
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Many years before Dr. Livingstone had laid another |
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The evangelical mood was now past its prime… |
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And there was one more stimulus to splendour… |
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Another cause of racialism was fundamentalist reli |
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The British distrusted the product of this system… |
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We have been speaking of the general… |
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Like many another island fortress… |
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Socially St. Lucia tended to dwell upon a past… |
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'No Caesar or Charlemagne,' Disraeli once said… |
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Below Parliament, and subject to its Secretaries o |
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It was an imperial maxim that the administrators o |
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All over the Empire these administrators… |
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Some of the greatest British jurists had presided… |
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Consider the island of Ascension… |
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The imperial complexity was all too apparent… |
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When Kipling first went east from India… |
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By now the merchants of Empire, no less than the g |
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Among the white settlers everywhere… |
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The age of the great explorers was almost over… |
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There were only three British soldiers whose perso |
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Two politicians of very different stamp set the pa |
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Northward from the Punjabi village of Kalka… |
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The British Government in India was a despotism… |
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The Viceroy knew that his was a unique imperial tr |
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The New Imperialism was born out of a medley of mo |
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They liked their creature comforts… |
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Throughout the length and breadth of the Empire… |
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They had developed to a new pitch of finesse… |
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Much of the driving force of imperialism… |
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But there was to this great communal exploit… |
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It was by their buildings that earlier Empires wer |
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One day in 1836 Colonel William Light… |
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The British had a genius for parks. |
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Most of the statues in the British Empire… |
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The difficulty about imperialism as a literary mot |
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Yet the third of our writers, a short-sighted jour |
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In literature as in art, the British settlers over |
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Among the waters of the Indus Basin… |
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But this was the railway age – its tail-end in Bri |
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They were making a start with tropical medicine. |
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In 1897 the most-frequented route into the goldfie |
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Canada was still a colony of the British Empire… |
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The first Europeans in Canada were the French… |
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The Pax Britannica was not a boastful fraud. |
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But also at the Queen's command stood another army |
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The great shrine of the epic… |
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To every right-thinking Englishman the Army was on |
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In materiel, too, the Royal Navy was deficient in |
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Let us ourselves, guide in hand, wander around Lon |
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The New Imperialism was too new, and too sudden… |
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A shifting population of colonials moved through L |
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But cause and effect were often muddled… |
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By Telford's road or Stephenson's railway line… |
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The British in Ireland did not think of themselves |
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Of all the cities the British had created across t |
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Where there was not actual opposition… |
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If precedents were anything to go by… |
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Some of its foreign critics were merely jealous. |
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The fashionable New Imperialist theory… |
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Was it a Christian Empire? |
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Buried away among it all was a conviction… |
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The British missed no opportunity to demonstrate t |
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In these years African chiefs of savage splendour… |
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But if in some corners of the British Empire… |
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Queen Victoria went home happy on her Jubilee Day. |
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