Pax Britannica – The Climax of an Empire (Pax Britannica, Vol. 2) (Unabridged)
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Introduction by Jan Morris |
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Pax Britannica – The British Empire 1897 |
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Chapter 1: The Heirs of Rome |
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2: The crowds outside waited in proud excitement… |
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3: Many and varied energies had swept the British… |
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Among the better-informed… |
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4: Within two minutes, we are told… |
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5: More gratifying still was the tribute of the Em |
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6: The procession itself was a superb display… |
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7: Everybody agreed it was a great success. |
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Chapter 2: Palm and Pine |
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2: Outside this heterogeneous mass there shone… |
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3: All this the British people surveyed… |
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4: So they were motley origins… |
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5: Never since the world began, Seeley had written |
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6: So it looked to the British. |
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Chapter 3: Life-lines |
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2: A favourite map of the time was the kind that s |
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3: Elaborate systems of supply, defence and commun |
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The British held key ports and maritime fortresses |
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4: Backwards and forwards along the imperial shipp |
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5: The British had invented submarine cables… |
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6: All this vast expertise, of ships and mails… |
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Chapter 4: Migrations |
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2: Emigration to the Empire was officially popular |
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3: If the Empire dispersed the British… |
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4: As for the flora and fauna… |
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5: It multiplied so fast that its progeny became a |
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6: Saddest of all, in their irrepressible impulse |
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Chapter 5: Pioneers |
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2: It was a sign of the imperial times that Rhodes |
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3: 'As for us,' said the Rhodesia Herald… |
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4: The Company had been, it is true, under a cloud |
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5: These were the homely pleasures of a frontier t |
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6: But far lower even than the vagrants in the soc |
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7: Salisbury was scarcely a sentimental town. |
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Chapter 6: The Profit |
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2: In the 1890s this atavistic view of imperial pr |
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3: Trade was a steadier imperial impulse… |
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The free ports of the Empire… |
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4: It was a common belief among the late Victorian |
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5: Such was the profit-mechanism of Empire… |
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6: So all these various instincts and impulses of |
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Chapter 7: The Glory |
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2: The Empire was at its zenith… |
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3: Dreams of private glory, too, forced the imperi |
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4: What incentives they were! |
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5: Many years before Dr. Livingstone had laid anot |
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6: The evangelical mood was now past its prime… |
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7: On a Governmental level… |
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8: And there was one more stimulus to splendour… |
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Chapter 8: Caste |
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The joke that 'niggers began at Calais' was not en |
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3: But to be coloured was something else. |
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4: By the nineties the attitude had hardened. |
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In England those who believed the East could be… |
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5: The immediate problems of race arose only… |
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6: Yet this very class of Anglicized Asians and Af |
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7: Among the settlers and planters of the tropical |
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8: A vassal could qualify for respect… |
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9: On the banks of the Hooghly River in Calcutta… |
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10: For it was not viciousness, nor even simply co |
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11: Steevens's unspeakable conceit might speak… |
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Chapter 9: Islanders |
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2: Like many another island fortress it had endure |
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3: It was a colony exceptional in its beauty… |
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4: It was quite an elaborate little Government… |
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5: A mile or so from Government House… |
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6: Often, when a merchant ship approached the entr |
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7: St. Lucia's Diamond Jubilee accordingly… |
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8: But then a feu de joie, commented the Voice sou |
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9: Brigade-Surgeon Gouldsbury never returned to St |
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Chapter 10: Imperial Order |
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2: The one immoveable thing about it was the Crown |
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3: The Crown at the very summit… |
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4: From the graceful little iron suspension bridge |
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5: It was an imperial maxim… |
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6: Steeped in the traditions of the team spirit… |
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7: Top jobs in the Empire sometimes went to grande |
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8: The law was different. |
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9: Loftily above it all, the supreme fount of impe |
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10: Not the law as such, but the rule of law… |
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Chapter 11: Imperial Complexity |
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2: At one end were the great self-governing coloni |
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3: Nothing was uniform. |
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4: Consider the island of Ascension… |
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5: Here are a few less spectacular anomalies of Em |
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6: And oddest of all the imperial phenomena was Eg |
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7: Paddling up the Nile with Oxford marmalade… |
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8: It was all bits and pieces. |
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Chapter 12: Imperialists in General |
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2: Nobody, of course, runs so true to type as that |
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3: The aristocracy of Empire was the official clas |
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4: Poor Anglo-Indians! |
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5: They walked dolorously to and fro under the gla |
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6: Among the white settlers everywhere… |
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7: The maverick patrician escaped all this… |
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Chapter 13: Imperialists in Particular |
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2: The age of the great explorers was almost over… |
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3: There were only three British soldiers… |
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The second soldier of the Empire was… |
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4: Alone among the admirals of the imperial Navy… |
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5: Of the proconsuls in the field of Empire that s |
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6: Two politicians of very different stamp… |
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Salisbury was a remote enigma to the British publi |
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7: The men Kipling called 'the doers' were mostly |
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Rhodes was first of all a money-maker. |
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8: There were other exceptional imperialists… |
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Chapter 14: Proconsuls |
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2: Simla in 1897 was one of the most extraordinary |
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3: In the morning Simla seemed different again… |
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4: Seven thousand feet up, eighty miles from a rai |
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5: The British Government in India was a despotism |
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6: So from top to bottom… |
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7: But however original the young officers in the |
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8: The Viceroy knew that his was a unique imperial |
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9: It was a bad year in India… |
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Chapter 15: Consolations |
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2: Sport was the first. |
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3: Drink came next – food did not interest them ha |
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4: They liked their creature comforts… |
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In Australia the clubs very early became stronghol |
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5: Throughout the length and breadth of the Empire |
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6: They had developed to a new pitch of finesse… |
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7: They enjoyed themselves with tourism. |
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8: One easily detects pathos in these pleasures. |
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Chapter 16: Challenge and Responses |
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2: But one of the most enviable advantages… |
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3: For a century living dangerously, or alone… |
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4: Into the mystique of every British settlement… |
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5: But there was to this great communal exploit… |
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Chapter 17: Stones of Empire |
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2: Supreme in every imperial city stood the house |
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3: Next to the house of God, the home of the Empir |
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4: Public buildings of the most august elaboration |
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5: One day in 1836 Colonel William Light… |
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6: The British, who generally neglected their wate |
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7: 'The Maharajah gave the order…' |
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The British had a genius for parks… |
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8: The garden instinct of the English did not alwa |
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Chapter 18: Tribal Lays and Images |
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2: No English Delacroix arose… |
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3: Few other professional painters made the Empire |
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4: Most of the statues in the British Empire… |
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5: But they were mostly of the Queen. |
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6: Marches and oratorios, fanfares and even ballet |
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7: The difficulty about imperialism as a literary |
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8: Out of the frenzy three writers emerge… |
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Yet the third of our writers, a short-sighted jour |
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Nobody saw more clearly through the petty pretence |
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9: In literature as in art… |
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Chapter 19: All by Steam! |
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2: The British Empire was a development agency… |
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3: Some of the imperial works really were on the c |
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4: But this was the railway age… |
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5: There was no grand plan for the railways of the |
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In India especially… |
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6: In the last three decades of the century… |
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7: They were making a start with tropical medicine |
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8: One gets the unfortunate impression… |
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9: The natives saw this millennium, and it worked. |
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Chapter 20: Freedmen |
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2: Canada was still a colony of the British Empire |
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3: The imperial hegemony was tactfully exerted. |
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4: Canada had become a nation, of a sort… |
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5: The first Europeans in Canada were the French… |
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6: The British Canadians were loyal to the Crown… |
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7: An English Canadian, W.H. Drummond… |
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8: They did not, for example, throw squibs at the |
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9: It was not a contented country. |
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Chapter 21: On Guard |
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2: The land forces of the Empire were drawn… |
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3: The Army List of 1897 records only nine… |
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4: This was not a promising formula for modern war |
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5: But also at the Queen's command stood another a |
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6: It was in India that the martial heroism of Emp |
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7: No other imperial war had left memories so hall |
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8: Between them the two armies of the British Empi |
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Chapter 22: At Sea |
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2: The Royal Navy did not lack self-esteem. |
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3: These were the extravagances of a lost age… |
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4: The social structure of the Navy… |
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5: British naval strategy, such as it was… |
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Chapter 23: Imperial Effects |
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2: Let us ourselves, guide in hand, wander around |
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3: And if, like every other visitor, we finally st |
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4: The New Imperialism was too new… |
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5: Half without knowing it, the British had picked |
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6: In 1882 there appeared in the list of English c |
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7: A shifting population of colonials moved throug |
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8: If the physical imprint of Empire was slight… |
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9: The New Imperialism was potent politics. |
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10: But cause and effect were often muddled… |
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11: So the foreigner's first impression was right |
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Chapter 24: Overlords |
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2: Implanted in this melancholy setting were the A |
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3: Many Anglo-Irish were understandably distressed |
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4: The Cadogans stood, ex officio… |
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5: This queer regime remained undeterred… |
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6: Much more permanent were the barracks… |
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7: Of all the cities the British had created acros |
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8: Ireland was the only one of the Queen's dominio |
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9: 'Everything was orderly and peaceable,'… |
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10: The Irish Times blushed. |
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11: The noblest cause? Treason or patriotism? |
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Chapter 25: Omens |
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2: If precedents were anything to go by… |
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3: Would the barbarians one day take over? |
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But it was the sea that counted. |
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4: On Jubilee evening the Governor of Bombay… |
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5: In Egypt almost nobody wanted the British to st |
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6: Everything was under control… |
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7: Was it all worth it? |
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8: But in that celebratory summer any weakening… |
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9: It was not to be. |
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Chapter 26: 'The Song on Your Bugles Blown' |
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2: Was it a Christian Empire? |
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3: Yet there was no rule to it. |
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4: A less involved imperial principle… |
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5: Plain Englishness, in those days, was a princip |
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6: To many Britons this was not enough. |
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7: But if in some corners of the Empire… |
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8: This was the saving flaw of British imperialism |
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Chapter 27: Finale |
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2: So their pride was understandable… |
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3: The New Imperialism quickly subsided. |
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