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

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Item number	NA0036
Barcode	9781843794691
Release date	7/1/2011
Category	Spoken Word
Label	NAXOS AUDIO BOOKS
Media type	COMPACT DISC
Number of units	13

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Booklet Author	McMillan, Roy

Disc: 1
1	Introduction by Jan Morris	00:03:52	McMillan, Roy
2	Pax Britannica – The British Empire 1897	00:02:27	McMillan, Roy
3	Chapter 1: The Heirs of Rome	00:01:56	McMillan, Roy
4	2: The crowds outside waited in proud excitement…	00:03:19	McMillan, Roy
5	3: Many and varied energies had swept the British…	00:04:29	McMillan, Roy
6	Among the better-informed…	00:07:49	McMillan, Roy
7	4: Within two minutes, we are told…	00:02:56	McMillan, Roy
8	5: More gratifying still was the tribute of the Em	00:04:53	McMillan, Roy
9	6: The procession itself was a superb display…	00:06:35	McMillan, Roy
10	7: Everybody agreed it was a great success.	00:01:03	McMillan, Roy
11	Chapter 2: Palm and Pine	00:04:55	McMillan, Roy
12	2: Outside this heterogeneous mass there shone…	00:08:14	McMillan, Roy
13	3: All this the British people surveyed…	00:06:05	McMillan, Roy
14	4: So they were motley origins…	00:02:42	McMillan, Roy
15	5: Never since the world began, Seeley had written	00:02:32	McMillan, Roy
16	6: So it looked to the British.	00:00:45	McMillan, Roy
17	Chapter 3: Life-lines	00:02:32	McMillan, Roy
18	2: A favourite map of the time was the kind that s	00:09:49	McMillan, Roy
19	3: Elaborate systems of supply, defence and commun	00:01:23	McMillan, Roy

Disc: 2
1	The British held key ports and maritime fortresses	00:02:46	McMillan, Roy
2	4: Backwards and forwards along the imperial shipp	00:05:09	McMillan, Roy
3	5: The British had invented submarine cables…	00:08:07	McMillan, Roy
4	6: All this vast expertise, of ships and mails…	00:01:34	McMillan, Roy
5	Chapter 4: Migrations	00:05:55	McMillan, Roy
6	2: Emigration to the Empire was officially popular	00:06:30	McMillan, Roy
7	3: If the Empire dispersed the British…	00:06:12	McMillan, Roy
8	4: As for the flora and fauna…	00:05:53	McMillan, Roy
9	5: It multiplied so fast that its progeny became a	00:03:33	McMillan, Roy
10	6: Saddest of all, in their irrepressible impulse	00:02:02	McMillan, Roy
11	Chapter 5: Pioneers	00:04:53	McMillan, Roy
12	2: It was a sign of the imperial times that Rhodes	00:03:34	McMillan, Roy
13	3: 'As for us,' said the Rhodesia Herald…	00:02:36	McMillan, Roy
14	4: The Company had been, it is true, under a cloud	00:06:47	McMillan, Roy
15	5: These were the homely pleasures of a frontier t	00:07:22	McMillan, Roy
16	6: But far lower even than the vagrants in the soc	00:05:20	McMillan, Roy

Disc: 3
1	7: Salisbury was scarcely a sentimental town.	00:02:32	McMillan, Roy
2	Chapter 6: The Profit	00:02:57	McMillan, Roy
3	2: In the 1890s this atavistic view of imperial pr	00:06:45	McMillan, Roy
4	3: Trade was a steadier imperial impulse…	00:05:07	McMillan, Roy
5	The free ports of the Empire…	00:04:21	McMillan, Roy
6	4: It was a common belief among the late Victorian	00:04:16	McMillan, Roy
7	5: Such was the profit-mechanism of Empire…	00:04:17	McMillan, Roy
8	6: So all these various instincts and impulses of	00:01:50	McMillan, Roy
9	Chapter 7: The Glory	00:05:36	McMillan, Roy
10	2: The Empire was at its zenith…	00:03:31	McMillan, Roy
11	3: Dreams of private glory, too, forced the imperi	00:03:58	McMillan, Roy
12	4: What incentives they were!	00:02:03	McMillan, Roy
13	5: Many years before Dr. Livingstone had laid anot	00:08:01	McMillan, Roy
14	6: The evangelical mood was now past its prime…	00:05:12	McMillan, Roy
15	7: On a Governmental level…	00:03:00	McMillan, Roy
16	8: And there was one more stimulus to splendour…	00:00:49	McMillan, Roy
17	Chapter 8: Caste	00:04:16	McMillan, Roy
18	The joke that 'niggers began at Calais' was not en	00:02:28	McMillan, Roy
19	3: But to be coloured was something else.	00:03:39	McMillan, Roy
20	4: By the nineties the attitude had hardened.	00:04:25	McMillan, Roy

Disc: 4
1	In England those who believed the East could be…	00:04:11	McMillan, Roy
2	5: The immediate problems of race arose only…	00:03:23	McMillan, Roy
3	6: Yet this very class of Anglicized Asians and Af	00:08:14	McMillan, Roy
4	7: Among the settlers and planters of the tropical	00:08:53	McMillan, Roy
5	8: A vassal could qualify for respect…	00:06:00	McMillan, Roy
6	9: On the banks of the Hooghly River in Calcutta…	00:07:08	McMillan, Roy
7	10: For it was not viciousness, nor even simply co	00:03:55	McMillan, Roy
8	11: Steevens's unspeakable conceit might speak…	00:01:38	McMillan, Roy
9	Chapter 9: Islanders	00:02:33	McMillan, Roy
10	2: Like many another island fortress it had endure	00:02:16	McMillan, Roy
11	3: It was a colony exceptional in its beauty…	00:04:52	McMillan, Roy
12	4: It was quite an elaborate little Government…	00:05:26	McMillan, Roy
13	5: A mile or so from Government House…	00:04:39	McMillan, Roy
14	6: Often, when a merchant ship approached the entr	00:05:03	McMillan, Roy
15	7: St. Lucia's Diamond Jubilee accordingly…	00:02:47	McMillan, Roy
16	8: But then a feu de joie, commented the Voice sou	00:04:25	McMillan, Roy
17	9: Brigade-Surgeon Gouldsbury never returned to St	00:00:45	McMillan, Roy
18	Chapter 10: Imperial Order	00:02:34	McMillan, Roy

Disc: 5
1	2: The one immoveable thing about it was the Crown	00:06:02	McMillan, Roy
2	3: The Crown at the very summit…	00:02:51	McMillan, Roy
3	4: From the graceful little iron suspension bridge	00:08:49	McMillan, Roy
4	5: It was an imperial maxim…	00:04:46	McMillan, Roy
5	6: Steeped in the traditions of the team spirit…	00:03:36	McMillan, Roy
6	7: Top jobs in the Empire sometimes went to grande	00:04:32	McMillan, Roy
7	8: The law was different.	00:04:48	McMillan, Roy
8	9: Loftily above it all, the supreme fount of impe	00:05:40	McMillan, Roy
9	10: Not the law as such, but the rule of law…	00:02:43	McMillan, Roy
10	Chapter 11: Imperial Complexity	00:02:54	McMillan, Roy
11	2: At one end were the great self-governing coloni	00:04:05	McMillan, Roy
12	3: Nothing was uniform.	00:04:43	McMillan, Roy
13	4: Consider the island of Ascension…	00:03:25	McMillan, Roy
14	5: Here are a few less spectacular anomalies of Em	00:01:23	McMillan, Roy
15	6: And oddest of all the imperial phenomena was Eg	00:09:23	McMillan, Roy
16	7: Paddling up the Nile with Oxford marmalade…	00:05:44	McMillan, Roy
17	8: It was all bits and pieces.	00:02:00	McMillan, Roy
18	Chapter 12: Imperialists in General	00:01:34	McMillan, Roy

Disc: 6
1	2: Nobody, of course, runs so true to type as that	00:04:24	McMillan, Roy
2	3: The aristocracy of Empire was the official clas	00:06:49	McMillan, Roy
3	4: Poor Anglo-Indians!	00:04:31	McMillan, Roy
4	5: They walked dolorously to and fro under the gla	00:06:30	McMillan, Roy
5	6: Among the white settlers everywhere…	00:04:09	McMillan, Roy
6	7: The maverick patrician escaped all this…	00:04:26	McMillan, Roy
7	Chapter 13: Imperialists in Particular	00:01:31	McMillan, Roy
8	2: The age of the great explorers was almost over…	00:06:08	McMillan, Roy
9	3: There were only three British soldiers…	00:03:44	McMillan, Roy
10	The second soldier of the Empire was…	00:06:16	McMillan, Roy
11	4: Alone among the admirals of the imperial Navy…	00:06:31	McMillan, Roy
12	5: Of the proconsuls in the field of Empire that s	00:09:20	McMillan, Roy
13	6: Two politicians of very different stamp…	00:05:16	McMillan, Roy
14	Salisbury was a remote enigma to the British publi	00:04:48	McMillan, Roy
15	7: The men Kipling called 'the doers' were mostly	00:04:50	McMillan, Roy

Disc: 7
1	Rhodes was first of all a money-maker.	00:04:03	McMillan, Roy
2	8: There were other exceptional imperialists…	00:02:39	McMillan, Roy
3	Chapter 14: Proconsuls	00:02:30	McMillan, Roy
4	2: Simla in 1897 was one of the most extraordinary	00:03:12	McMillan, Roy
5	3: In the morning Simla seemed different again…	00:02:54	McMillan, Roy
6	4: Seven thousand feet up, eighty miles from a rai	00:09:22	McMillan, Roy
7	5: The British Government in India was a despotism	00:06:37	McMillan, Roy
8	6: So from top to bottom…	00:05:21	McMillan, Roy
9	7: But however original the young officers in the	00:09:49	McMillan, Roy
10	8: The Viceroy knew that his was a unique imperial	00:09:04	McMillan, Roy
11	9: It was a bad year in India…	00:03:30	McMillan, Roy
12	Chapter 15: Consolations	00:01:19	McMillan, Roy
13	2: Sport was the first.	00:08:14	McMillan, Roy
14	3: Drink came next – food did not interest them ha	00:06:06	McMillan, Roy
15	4: They liked their creature comforts…	00:04:02	McMillan, Roy

Disc: 8
1	In Australia the clubs very early became stronghol	00:04:19	McMillan, Roy
2	5: Throughout the length and breadth of the Empire	00:09:06	McMillan, Roy
3	6: They had developed to a new pitch of finesse…	00:04:32	McMillan, Roy
4	7: They enjoyed themselves with tourism.	00:05:07	McMillan, Roy
5	8: One easily detects pathos in these pleasures.	00:01:09	McMillan, Roy
6	Chapter 16: Challenge and Responses	00:01:59	McMillan, Roy
7	2: But one of the most enviable advantages…	00:04:01	McMillan, Roy
8	3: For a century living dangerously, or alone…	00:06:18	McMillan, Roy
9	4: Into the mystique of every British settlement…	00:01:57	McMillan, Roy
10	5: But there was to this great communal exploit…	00:06:41	McMillan, Roy
11	Chapter 17: Stones of Empire	00:03:51	McMillan, Roy
12	2: Supreme in every imperial city stood the house	00:04:11	McMillan, Roy
13	3: Next to the house of God, the home of the Empir	00:05:56	McMillan, Roy
14	4: Public buildings of the most august elaboration	00:06:34	McMillan, Roy
15	5: One day in 1836 Colonel William Light…	00:06:32	McMillan, Roy
16	6: The British, who generally neglected their wate	00:03:08	McMillan, Roy
17	7: 'The Maharajah gave the order…'	00:03:49	McMillan, Roy

Disc: 9
1	The British had a genius for parks…	00:03:54	McMillan, Roy
2	8: The garden instinct of the English did not alwa	00:02:35	McMillan, Roy
3	Chapter 18: Tribal Lays and Images	00:03:01	McMillan, Roy
4	2: No English Delacroix arose…	00:03:29	McMillan, Roy
5	3: Few other professional painters made the Empire	00:02:26	McMillan, Roy
6	4: Most of the statues in the British Empire…	00:03:54	McMillan, Roy
7	5: But they were mostly of the Queen.	00:00:58	McMillan, Roy
8	6: Marches and oratorios, fanfares and even ballet	00:05:12	McMillan, Roy
9	7: The difficulty about imperialism as a literary	00:04:32	McMillan, Roy
10	8: Out of the frenzy three writers emerge…	00:05:10	McMillan, Roy
11	Yet the third of our writers, a short-sighted jour	00:05:03	McMillan, Roy
12	Nobody saw more clearly through the petty pretence	00:05:52	McMillan, Roy
13	9: In literature as in art…	00:07:49	McMillan, Roy
14	Chapter 19: All by Steam!	00:06:14	McMillan, Roy
15	2: The British Empire was a development agency…	00:03:48	McMillan, Roy
16	3: Some of the imperial works really were on the c	00:06:02	McMillan, Roy
17	4: But this was the railway age…	00:06:23	McMillan, Roy
18	5: There was no grand plan for the railways of the	00:02:33	McMillan, Roy

Disc: 10
1	In India especially…	00:07:39	McMillan, Roy
2	6: In the last three decades of the century…	00:02:35	McMillan, Roy
3	7: They were making a start with tropical medicine	00:04:47	McMillan, Roy
4	8: One gets the unfortunate impression…	00:04:05	McMillan, Roy
5	9: The natives saw this millennium, and it worked.	00:01:36	McMillan, Roy
6	Chapter 20: Freedmen	00:06:47	McMillan, Roy
7	2: Canada was still a colony of the British Empire	00:04:28	McMillan, Roy
8	3: The imperial hegemony was tactfully exerted.	00:01:58	McMillan, Roy
9	4: Canada had become a nation, of a sort…	00:05:22	McMillan, Roy
10	5: The first Europeans in Canada were the French…	00:06:51	McMillan, Roy
11	6: The British Canadians were loyal to the Crown…	00:03:38	McMillan, Roy
12	7: An English Canadian, W.H. Drummond…	00:06:30	McMillan, Roy
13	8: They did not, for example, throw squibs at the	00:03:33	McMillan, Roy
14	9: It was not a contented country.	00:05:21	McMillan, Roy
15	Chapter 21: On Guard	00:04:19	McMillan, Roy
16	2: The land forces of the Empire were drawn…	00:05:52	McMillan, Roy
17	3: The Army List of 1897 records only nine…	00:03:51	McMillan, Roy

Disc: 11
1	4: This was not a promising formula for modern war	00:02:32	McMillan, Roy
2	5: But also at the Queen's command stood another a	00:09:18	McMillan, Roy
3	6: It was in India that the martial heroism of Emp	00:06:01	McMillan, Roy
4	7: No other imperial war had left memories so hall	00:02:33	McMillan, Roy
5	8: Between them the two armies of the British Empi	00:03:40	McMillan, Roy
6	Chapter 22: At Sea	00:08:02	McMillan, Roy
7	2: The Royal Navy did not lack self-esteem.	00:03:58	McMillan, Roy
8	3: These were the extravagances of a lost age…	00:03:22	McMillan, Roy
9	4: The social structure of the Navy…	00:05:10	McMillan, Roy
10	5: British naval strategy, such as it was…	00:06:25	McMillan, Roy
11	Chapter 23: Imperial Effects	00:03:23	McMillan, Roy
12	2: Let us ourselves, guide in hand, wander around	00:08:25	McMillan, Roy
13	3: And if, like every other visitor, we finally st	00:03:01	McMillan, Roy
14	4: The New Imperialism was too new…	00:03:15	McMillan, Roy
15	5: Half without knowing it, the British had picked	00:06:11	McMillan, Roy
16	6: In 1882 there appeared in the list of English c	00:02:54	McMillan, Roy

Disc: 12
1	7: A shifting population of colonials moved throug	00:02:57	McMillan, Roy
2	8: If the physical imprint of Empire was slight…	00:03:41	McMillan, Roy
3	9: The New Imperialism was potent politics.	00:04:17	McMillan, Roy
4	10: But cause and effect were often muddled…	00:09:46	McMillan, Roy
5	11: So the foreigner's first impression was right	00:01:05	McMillan, Roy
6	Chapter 24: Overlords	00:07:14	McMillan, Roy
7	2: Implanted in this melancholy setting were the A	00:04:11	McMillan, Roy
8	3: Many Anglo-Irish were understandably distressed	00:05:15	McMillan, Roy
9	4: The Cadogans stood, ex officio…	00:04:56	McMillan, Roy
10	5: This queer regime remained undeterred…	00:04:09	McMillan, Roy
11	6: Much more permanent were the barracks…	00:03:44	McMillan, Roy
12	7: Of all the cities the British had created acros	00:04:18	McMillan, Roy
13	8: Ireland was the only one of the Queen's dominio	00:02:36	McMillan, Roy
14	9: 'Everything was orderly and peaceable,'…	00:01:50	McMillan, Roy
15	10: The Irish Times blushed.	00:06:50	McMillan, Roy
16	11: The noblest cause? Treason or patriotism?	00:01:51	McMillan, Roy
17	Chapter 25: Omens	00:02:00	McMillan, Roy
18	2: If precedents were anything to go by…	00:05:17	McMillan, Roy
19	3: Would the barbarians one day take over?	00:03:03	McMillan, Roy

Disc: 13
1	But it was the sea that counted.	00:01:40	McMillan, Roy
2	4: On Jubilee evening the Governor of Bombay…	00:07:52	McMillan, Roy
3	5: In Egypt almost nobody wanted the British to st	00:02:20	McMillan, Roy
4	6: Everything was under control…	00:04:15	McMillan, Roy
5	7: Was it all worth it?	00:03:39	McMillan, Roy
6	8: But in that celebratory summer any weakening…	00:03:18	McMillan, Roy
7	9: It was not to be.	00:03:00	McMillan, Roy
8	Chapter 26: 'The Song on Your Bugles Blown'	00:02:23	McMillan, Roy
9	2: Was it a Christian Empire?	00:08:56	McMillan, Roy
10	3: Yet there was no rule to it.	00:04:16	McMillan, Roy
11	4: A less involved imperial principle…	00:09:18	McMillan, Roy
12	5: Plain Englishness, in those days, was a princip	00:07:30	McMillan, Roy
13	6: To many Britons this was not enough.	00:06:16	McMillan, Roy
14	7: But if in some corners of the Empire…	00:03:42	McMillan, Roy
15	8: This was the saving flaw of British imperialism	00:03:02	McMillan, Roy
16	Chapter 27: Finale	00:03:10	McMillan, Roy
17	2: So their pride was understandable…	00:01:38	McMillan, Roy
18	3: The New Imperialism quickly subsided.	00:01:16	McMillan, Roy

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