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Introduction by Jan Morris
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Part 1 The Sentiment of Empire 1837–1850
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Far away Lord Auckland laboured…
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Though slavery had been so old an imperial practice…
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At first the Royal Navy tried to end the traffic…
00:04:54
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So the first monuments of Queen Victoria's empire…
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The Boers of the Great Trek – The Voortrekkers…
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Retief was courteously received.
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They built the church they had vowed…
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On the dirt road west of Mirzapur on the Ganges…
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By western criminal standards these were motiveless crimes.
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The first big Victorian war was precipitated…
00:07:18
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The story of the war against the Afghans is full of omens…
00:04:54
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At this climactic moment there arrived upon the scene…
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DISCO 2
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Even now the Afghans expected reprisals…
00:04:33
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By the end of the fifth day the last of the sepoys were dead…
00:04:34
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On the other side of the world, on a summer day…
00:06:41
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By the 1840s, nevertheless, there was pressure…
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Some of the white settlers were already quite urbane.
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A very different kind of society was established…
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Such were two of the Empire's white settlement colonies.
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In the county of Cork in south-west Ireland…
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In the early 1840s, before the Famine…
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In the middle of it all O'Connell, aged and demoralized, died…
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Never again would the British shirk their imperial duties…
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Next the British power, with some false starts…
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All this in his thirties, at a time when the British services…
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Part 2 The Growing Conviction 1850–1870
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DISCO 3
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The Crystal Palace was made entirely of glass and iron…
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Many of the Empire's grandest monuments were railway works.
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Here is another memorable product of the imperial technology.
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High above the Jumna River at Delhi…
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But it was not a national revolution at all…
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It was Sunday next day, May 10, 1857…
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This pathetic action was to enter the mythology of the Empire.
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The other sacramental episode of the Indian Mutiny…
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At the end of October word filtered in…
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In 1861, work began on the construction of a new headquarters…
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All over the Empire this trend towards the aloof…
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On September 16, 1864, the spa of Bath in Somerset awoke…
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The compelling fascination of the Nile had exerted itself…
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DISCO 4
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But Speke went back with a very different companion…
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Livingstone, it seemed, did not in the least wish to be rescued.
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The conviction of Empire was increasingly reinforced…
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When the Anglican Bishop of Jamaica visited his flock…
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In Cape Town Bishop Robert Grey…
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These imperial disputes were comprehensible only to the elect…
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The British were now exporting to their dominions…
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The Metis were not forewarned of these developments.
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Trade was resumed.
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Sobre o álbum
- 6 disco(s) - 79 faixa(s)
- Duração total: 07:29:36
- Artistas principais: Roy McMillan
- Gravadora: Naxos Audiobooks
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