The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris's magnificent history of the British Empire from 1837 to 1965. Huge in scope and ambition, it is always personal and immediate, bringing the story vividly to life. "Pax Britannica", the second volume, is a snapshot of the Empire at the Diamond Jubilee of 1897. It looks at what made up the Empire -from adventurers and politicians to communications and infrastructure, as well as anomalies and eccentricities. This humane overview also examines the muddle of jumbled ideologies behind it, and how it affected its 370 million people.
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Pax Britannica
von Jan Morris
Länge: 17:00 h
Veröffentlicht: 20.07.2011
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Pax Britannica – The Climax of an Empire (Pax Britannica, Vol. 2) (Abridged)
von Roy McMillan
Länge: 7:18 h
Veröffentlicht: 2011-07-05
Tracks:
03:51 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Introduction read by Jan Morris 07:07 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Pax Britannica – The Climax of an Empire 04:31 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Within two minutes we are told… 06:56 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The Diamond Jubilee crystallized the new conception of Empire… 05:31 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Most Englishmen asked what it was all about… 06:58 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): To other nations the imperial methods often seemed… 06:03 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The British had invented submarine cables… 06:29 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The movement of people out of the British islands… 06:50 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): As for the flora and fauna… 06:12 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Beneath a low kopje on the Makabusi River… 04:00 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The Company had been, it is true, under a cloud… 02:35 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): But far lower even than the vagrants in the social scale… 04:35 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The infatuated British public did not greatly concern itself… 07:04 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Trade was a steadier imperial impulse… 06:14 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Such was the profit-mechanism of Empire… 04:22 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Many years before Dr. Livingstone had laid another trail… 04:14 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The evangelical mood was now past its prime… 06:02 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): And there was one more stimulus to splendour… 05:06 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Another cause of racialism was fundamentalist religion… 07:26 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The British distrusted the product of this system… 06:23 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): We have been speaking of the general… 06:17 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Like many another island fortress… 05:19 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Socially St. Lucia tended to dwell upon a past… 05:29 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): 'No Caesar or Charlemagne,' Disraeli once said… 04:29 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Below Parliament, and subject to its Secretaries of State… 05:24 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): It was an imperial maxim that the administrators of Empire… 06:51 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): All over the Empire these administrators… 05:26 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Some of the greatest British jurists had presided… 06:13 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Consider the island of Ascension… 02:52 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The imperial complexity was all too apparent… 07:56 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): When Kipling first went east from India… 05:18 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): By now the merchants of Empire, no less than the governors… 05:15 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Among the white settlers everywhere… 04:00 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The age of the great explorers was almost over… 06:43 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): There were only three British soldiers whose personalities… 06:51 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Two politicians of very different stamp set the pace… 06:21 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Northward from the Punjabi village of Kalka… 05:27 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The British Government in India was a despotism… 06:11 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The Viceroy knew that his was a unique imperial trust. 06:43 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The New Imperialism was born out of a medley of moods… 05:04 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): They liked their creature comforts… 05:35 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Throughout the length and breadth of the Empire… 06:06 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): They had developed to a new pitch of finesse… 06:18 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Much of the driving force of imperialism… 05:31 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): But there was to this great communal exploit… 07:37 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): It was by their buildings that earlier Empires were most… 06:10 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): One day in 1836 Colonel William Light… 05:02 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The British had a genius for parks. 05:58 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Most of the statues in the British Empire… 04:52 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The difficulty about imperialism as a literary motif… 04:51 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Yet the third of our writers, a short-sighted journalist… 03:05 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): In literature as in art, the British settlers overseas… 06:34 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Among the waters of the Indus Basin… 06:49 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): But this was the railway age – its tail-end in Britain… 04:12 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): They were making a start with tropical medicine. 05:43 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): In 1897 the most-frequented route into the goldfields… 04:34 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Canada was still a colony of the British Empire… 07:30 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The first Europeans in Canada were the French… 06:04 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The Pax Britannica was not a boastful fraud. 06:00 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): But also at the Queen's command stood another army… 05:55 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The great shrine of the epic… 05:01 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): To every right-thinking Englishman the Army was only… 03:53 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): In materiel, too, the Royal Navy was deficient in some… 07:28 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Let us ourselves, guide in hand, wander around London… 05:46 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The New Imperialism was too new, and too sudden… 04:15 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): A shifting population of colonials moved through London. 05:23 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): But cause and effect were often muddled… 04:57 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): By Telford's road or Stephenson's railway line… 06:12 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The British in Ireland did not think of themselves… 04:57 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Of all the cities the British had created across the waters… 04:40 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Where there was not actual opposition… 04:56 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): If precedents were anything to go by… 04:28 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Some of its foreign critics were merely jealous. 02:52 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The fashionable New Imperialist theory… 03:36 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Was it a Christian Empire? 03:57 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Buried away among it all was a conviction… 05:35 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): The British missed no opportunity to demonstrate the wealth… 04:25 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): In these years African chiefs of savage splendour… 04:04 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): But if in some corners of the British Empire… 05:08 Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged): Queen Victoria went home happy on her Jubilee Day. ▶ Jetzt kostenlos anhören (bereitgestellt von Deezer Gratis)
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