The "Pax Britannica" trilogy is Jan Morris’s epic story of the British Empire from the accession of Queen Victoria to the death of Winston Churchill. It is a towering achievement: informative, accessible, entertaining and written with all her usual bravura. "Heaven’s Command", the first volume, takes us from the crowning of Queen Victoria in 1837 to the Diamond Jubilee in 1897. The story moves effortlessly across the world, from the English shores to Fiji, Zululand, the Canadian prairies and beyond. Totally gripping history!
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Heaven's Command
par Jan Morris
Longueur: 20:00 h
Publié: 03/05/2011
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Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress (Pax Britannica, Vol. 1) (Abridged)
par Roy McMillan
Longueur: 7:29 h
Publié: 2011-04-05
Tracks:
03:34 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Introduction by Jan Morris 07:00 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Part 1 The Sentiment of Empire 1837–1850 05:44 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Far away Lord Auckland laboured… 05:25 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Though slavery had been so old an imperial practice… 04:54 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): At first the Royal Navy tried to end the traffic… 06:05 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): So the first monuments of Queen Victoria's empire… 06:01 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): The Boers of the Great Trek – The Voortrekkers… 07:48 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Retief was courteously received. 03:34 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): They built the church they had vowed… 06:01 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): On the dirt road west of Mirzapur on the Ganges… 06:13 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): By western criminal standards these were motiveless crimes. 07:18 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): The first big Victorian war was precipitated… 04:54 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): The story of the war against the Afghans is full of omens… 04:18 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): At this climactic moment there arrived upon the scene… 04:33 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Even now the Afghans expected reprisals… 04:34 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): By the end of the fifth day the last of the sepoys were dead… 06:41 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): On the other side of the world, on a summer day… 06:42 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): By the 1840s, nevertheless, there was pressure… 04:48 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Some of the white settlers were already quite urbane. 05:29 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): A very different kind of society was established… 04:02 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Such were two of the Empire's white settlement colonies. 07:07 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): In the county of Cork in south-west Ireland… 07:21 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): In the early 1840s, before the Famine… 04:13 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): In the middle of it all O'Connell, aged and demoralized, died… 06:33 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Never again would the British shirk their imperial duties… 06:04 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Next the British power, with some false starts… 06:34 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): All this in his thirties, at a time when the British services… 02:45 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Part 2 The Growing Conviction 1850–1870 05:42 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): The Crystal Palace was made entirely of glass and iron… 05:33 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Many of the Empire's grandest monuments were railway works. 04:58 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Here is another memorable product of the imperial technology. 06:21 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): High above the Jumna River at Delhi… 06:11 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): But it was not a national revolution at all… 05:56 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): It was Sunday next day, May 10, 1857… 06:34 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): This pathetic action was to enter the mythology of the Empire. 06:57 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): The other sacramental episode of the Indian Mutiny… 05:13 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): At the end of October word filtered in… 07:26 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): In 1861, work began on the construction of a new headquarters… 05:08 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): All over the Empire this trend towards the aloof… 06:18 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): On September 16, 1864, the spa of Bath in Somerset awoke… 05:01 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): The compelling fascination of the Nile had exerted itself… 06:27 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): But Speke went back with a very different companion… 06:53 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Livingstone, it seemed, did not in the least wish to be rescued. 06:28 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): The conviction of Empire was increasingly reinforced… 06:03 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): When the Anglican Bishop of Jamaica visited his flock… 05:21 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): In Cape Town Bishop Robert Grey… 03:50 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): These imperial disputes were comprehensible only to the elect… 06:26 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): The British were now exporting to their dominions… 06:34 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): The Metis were not forewarned of these developments. 05:01 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Trade was resumed. 05:50 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Wolseley was to talk about it for the rest of his life… 05:06 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Still the British as a nation were not conscious expansionists. 04:10 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Until recently the Fijians had been polygamous cannibals. 05:13 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Part 3 The Imperial Obsession 1870–1897 04:22 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Disraeli adopted the imperial cause deliberately. 06:10 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Disraeli did not of course invent imperialism… 03:37 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): The profit motive, too, had subtly shifted its emphasis. 06:34 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): In Africa stood Ashanti-land. 05:30 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): It was only in the 1870s… 04:54 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): In the end the Ashanti broke… 06:00 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Behind the Army stood the Royal Navy. 04:26 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Disraeli, who became Prime Minister for the second time… 07:16 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): The South African scene had changed… 05:47 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): The fascination of the Zulu War… 03:05 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Eleven heroes of Rorke's Drift were awarded the Victoria Cross… 07:37 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Except for the quiescent Orange Free State… 06:15 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Empire was race. 07:00 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Authority could not sanction the extermination of the natives… 06:36 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Through all these years Ireland festered. 05:51 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Nobody was more shut off from the life of the country… 05:12 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): This led to the most spectacular of all Parnell's… 05:37 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): But in the same month as the presentation… 06:03 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): The British repeatedly claimed… 05:21 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): On February 18, 1884, he reached Khartoum. 04:48 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): 'Who,' asked Ruskin once… 06:15 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): In the last week of December 1895… 05:21 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Empires were fashionable everywhere now. 06:54 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Rhodes was an enigma… 06:10 Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): The failure of the Jameson Raid was an omen… ▶ Écoutez maintenant gratuitement (fourni par Deezer Gratis)
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