Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress (Pax Britannica, Vol. 1) (Abridged)

Roy McMillan

• Released on 05/04/2011 by Naxos Audiobooks
• Main artists: Roy McMillan
• Genre: English

1 Introduction by Jan Morris

00:03:34

2 Part 1 The Sentiment of Empire 1837–1850

00:07:00

3 Far away Lord Auckland laboured…

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4 Though slavery had been so old an imperial practice…

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5 At first the Royal Navy tried to end the traffic…

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6 So the first monuments of Queen Victoria's empire…

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7 The Boers of the Great Trek – The Voortrekkers…

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8 Retief was courteously received.

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9 They built the church they had vowed…

00:03:34

10 On the dirt road west of Mirzapur on the Ganges…

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11 By western criminal standards these were motiveless crimes.

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12 The first big Victorian war was precipitated…

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13 The story of the war against the Afghans is full of omens…

00:04:54

14 At this climactic moment there arrived upon the scene…

00:04:18

DISC 2

1 Even now the Afghans expected reprisals…

00:04:33

2 By the end of the fifth day the last of the sepoys were dead…

00:04:34

3 On the other side of the world, on a summer day…

00:06:41

4 By the 1840s, nevertheless, there was pressure…

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5 Some of the white settlers were already quite urbane.

00:04:48

6 A very different kind of society was established…

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7 Such were two of the Empire's white settlement colonies.

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8 In the county of Cork in south-west Ireland…

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9 In the early 1840s, before the Famine…

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10 In the middle of it all O'Connell, aged and demoralized, died…

00:04:13

11 Never again would the British shirk their imperial duties…

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12 Next the British power, with some false starts…

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13 All this in his thirties, at a time when the British services…

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14 Part 2 The Growing Conviction 1850–1870

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DISC 3

1 The Crystal Palace was made entirely of glass and iron…

00:05:42

2 Many of the Empire's grandest monuments were railway works.

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3 Here is another memorable product of the imperial technology.

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4 High above the Jumna River at Delhi…

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5 But it was not a national revolution at all…

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6 It was Sunday next day, May 10, 1857…

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7 This pathetic action was to enter the mythology of the Empire.

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8 The other sacramental episode of the Indian Mutiny…

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9 At the end of October word filtered in…

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10 In 1861, work began on the construction of a new headquarters…

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11 All over the Empire this trend towards the aloof…

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12 On September 16, 1864, the spa of Bath in Somerset awoke…

00:06:18

13 The compelling fascination of the Nile had exerted itself…

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DISC 4

1 But Speke went back with a very different companion…

00:06:27

2 Livingstone, it seemed, did not in the least wish to be rescued.

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3 The conviction of Empire was increasingly reinforced…

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4 When the Anglican Bishop of Jamaica visited his flock…

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5 In Cape Town Bishop Robert Grey…

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6 These imperial disputes were comprehensible only to the elect…

00:03:50

7 The British were now exporting to their dominions…

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8 The Metis were not forewarned of these developments.

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9 Trade was resumed.

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About the album

• 6 disc(s) - 79 track(s)
• Total length: 07:29:36

• Main artists: Roy McMillan
• Label: Naxos Audiobooks
• Genre: Humour/Spoken Word English
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