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

Roy McMillan

• Released on 05/07/2011 by Naxos Audiobooks
• Main artists: Roy McMillan
• Genre: Humour/Spoken Word

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1 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Introduction read by Jan Morris

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2 Pax Britannica – The Climax of an Empire

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3 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Within two minutes we are told…

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4 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The Diamond Jubilee crystallized the new conception of Empire…

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5 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Most Englishmen asked what it was all about…

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6 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): To other nations the imperial methods often seemed…

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7 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The British had invented submarine cables…

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8 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The movement of people out of the British islands…

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9 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): As for the flora and fauna…

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10 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Beneath a low kopje on the Makabusi River…

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11 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The Company had been, it is true, under a cloud…

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12 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): But far lower even than the vagrants in the social scale…

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13 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The infatuated British public did not greatly concern itself…

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14 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Trade was a steadier imperial impulse…

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1 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Such was the profit-mechanism of Empire…

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2 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Many years before Dr. Livingstone had laid another trail…

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3 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The evangelical mood was now past its prime…

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4 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): And there was one more stimulus to splendour…

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5 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Another cause of racialism was fundamentalist religion…

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6 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The British distrusted the product of this system…

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7 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): We have been speaking of the general…

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8 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Like many another island fortress…

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9 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Socially St. Lucia tended to dwell upon a past…

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10 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): 'No Caesar or Charlemagne,' Disraeli once said…

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11 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Below Parliament, and subject to its Secretaries of State…

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12 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): It was an imperial maxim that the administrators of Empire…

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13 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): All over the Empire these administrators…

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14 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Some of the greatest British jurists had presided…

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1 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Consider the island of Ascension…

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2 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The imperial complexity was all too apparent…

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3 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): When Kipling first went east from India…

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4 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): By now the merchants of Empire, no less than the governors…

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5 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Among the white settlers everywhere…

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6 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The age of the great explorers was almost over…

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7 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): There were only three British soldiers whose personalities…

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8 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Two politicians of very different stamp set the pace…

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9 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Northward from the Punjabi village of Kalka…

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10 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The British Government in India was a despotism…

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11 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The Viceroy knew that his was a unique imperial trust.

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12 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The New Imperialism was born out of a medley of moods…

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13 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): They liked their creature comforts…

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1 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Throughout the length and breadth of the Empire…

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2 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): They had developed to a new pitch of finesse…

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3 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Much of the driving force of imperialism…

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4 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): But there was to this great communal exploit…

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5 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): It was by their buildings that earlier Empires were most…

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6 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): One day in 1836 Colonel William Light…

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7 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The British had a genius for parks.

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8 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Most of the statues in the British Empire…

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9 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The difficulty about imperialism as a literary motif…

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About the album

• 6 disc(s) - 80 track(s)
• Total length: 07:18:37
• 1 Digital booklet

• Main artists: Roy McMillan
• Composer: Jan Morris
• Label: Naxos Audiobooks
• Genre: Humour/Spoken Word
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Digital booklet

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