Author(s): Morris, Jan
Reader(s): McMillan, Roy
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Non-Fiction
Catalogue No: NA0036
Barcode: 9781843794691
Release Date: 01/2001
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Disc 1
Morris, Jan - Author
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
1 Introduction by Jan Morris 03:52
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
2 Pax Britannica – The British Empire 1897 02:27
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3 Chapter 1: The Heirs of Rome 01:56
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4 2: The crowds outside waited in proud excitement… 03:19
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5 3: Many and varied energies had swept the British… 04:29
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6 Among the better-informed… 07:49
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7 4: Within two minutes, we are told… 02:56
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8 5: More gratifying still was the tribute of the Empire itself. 04:53
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9 6: The procession itself was a superb display… 06:35
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10 7: Everybody agreed it was a great success. 01:03
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11 Chapter 2: Palm and Pine 04:55
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12 2: Outside this heterogeneous mass there shone… 08:14
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13 3: All this the British people surveyed… 06:05
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14 4: So they were motley origins… 02:42
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15 5: Never since the world began, Seeley had written… 02:32
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16 6: So it looked to the British. 00:45
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17 Chapter 3: Life-lines 02:32
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18 2: A favourite map of the time was the kind that showed… 09:49
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19 3: Elaborate systems of supply, defence and communication… 01:23
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Disc 2
1 The British held key ports and maritime fortresses… 02:46
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2 4: Backwards and forwards along the imperial shipping lanes… 05:09
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3 5: The British had invented submarine cables… 08:07
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4 6: All this vast expertise, of ships and mails… 01:34
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5 Chapter 4: Migrations 05:55
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6 2: Emigration to the Empire was officially popular. 06:30
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7 3: If the Empire dispersed the British… 06:12
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8 4: As for the flora and fauna… 05:53
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9 5: It multiplied so fast that its progeny became a plague… 03:33
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10 6: Saddest of all, in their irrepressible impulse to control… 02:02
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11 Chapter 5: Pioneers 04:53
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12 2: It was a sign of the imperial times that Rhodesia… 03:34
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13 3: 'As for us,' said the Rhodesia Herald… 02:36
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14 4: The Company had been, it is true, under a cloud… 06:47
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15 5: These were the homely pleasures of a frontier town… 07:22
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16 6: But far lower even than the vagrants in the social scale… 05:20
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Disc 3
1 7: Salisbury was scarcely a sentimental town. 02:32
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2 Chapter 6: The Profit 02:57
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3 2: In the 1890s this atavistic view of imperial profit… 06:45
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4 3: Trade was a steadier imperial impulse… 05:07
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5 The free ports of the Empire… 04:21
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6 4: It was a common belief among the late Victorians… 04:16
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7 5: Such was the profit-mechanism of Empire… 04:17
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8 6: So all these various instincts and impulses of profit… 01:50
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9 Chapter 7: The Glory 05:36
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10 2: The Empire was at its zenith… 03:31
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11 3: Dreams of private glory, too, forced the imperial play… 03:58
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12 4: What incentives they were! 02:03
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13 5: Many years before Dr. Livingstone had laid another trail… 08:01
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14 6: The evangelical mood was now past its prime… 05:12
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15 7: On a Governmental level… 03:00
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16 8: And there was one more stimulus to splendour… 00:49
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17 Chapter 8: Caste 04:16
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18 The joke that 'niggers began at Calais' was not entirely a joke. 02:28
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19 3: But to be coloured was something else. 03:39
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20 4: By the nineties the attitude had hardened. 04:25
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Disc 4
1 In England those who believed the East could be… 04:11
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2 5: The immediate problems of race arose only… 03:23
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3 6: Yet this very class of Anglicized Asians and Africans… 08:14
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4 7: Among the settlers and planters of the tropical Empire… 08:53
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5 8: A vassal could qualify for respect… 06:00
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6 9: On the banks of the Hooghly River in Calcutta… 07:08
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7 10: For it was not viciousness, nor even simply conceit… 03:55
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8 11: Steevens's unspeakable conceit might speak… 01:38
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9 Chapter 9: Islanders 02:33
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10 2: Like many another island fortress it had endured… 02:16
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11 3: It was a colony exceptional in its beauty… 04:52
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12 4: It was quite an elaborate little Government… 05:26
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13 5: A mile or so from Government House… 04:39
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14 6: Often, when a merchant ship approached the entrance… 05:03
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15 7: St. Lucia's Diamond Jubilee accordingly… 02:47
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16 8: But then a feu de joie, commented the Voice sourly… 04:25
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17 9: Brigade-Surgeon Gouldsbury never returned to St. Lucia… 00:45
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18 Chapter 10: Imperial Order 02:34
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Disc 5
1 2: The one immoveable thing about it was the Crown. 06:02
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2 3: The Crown at the very summit… 02:51
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3 4: From the graceful little iron suspension bridge… 08:49
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4 5: It was an imperial maxim… 04:46
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5 6: Steeped in the traditions of the team spirit… 03:36
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6 7: Top jobs in the Empire sometimes went to grandees… 04:32
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7 8: The law was different. 04:48
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8 9: Loftily above it all, the supreme fount of imperial justice… 05:40
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9 10: Not the law as such, but the rule of law… 02:43
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10 Chapter 11: Imperial Complexity 02:54
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11 2: At one end were the great self-governing colonies… 04:05
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12 3: Nothing was uniform. 04:43
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13 4: Consider the island of Ascension… 03:25
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14 5: Here are a few less spectacular anomalies of Empire. 01:23
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15 6: And oddest of all the imperial phenomena was Egypt. 09:23
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16 7: Paddling up the Nile with Oxford marmalade… 05:44
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17 8: It was all bits and pieces. 02:00
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18 Chapter 12: Imperialists in General 01:34
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Disc 6
1 2: Nobody, of course, runs so true to type as that. 04:24
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2 3: The aristocracy of Empire was the official class… 06:49
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3 4: Poor Anglo-Indians! 04:31
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4 5: They walked dolorously to and fro under the glare… 06:30
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5 6: Among the white settlers everywhere… 04:09
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6 7: The maverick patrician escaped all this… 04:26
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7 Chapter 13: Imperialists in Particular 01:31
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8 2: The age of the great explorers was almost over… 06:08
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9 3: There were only three British soldiers… 03:44
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10 The second soldier of the Empire was… 06:16
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11 4: Alone among the admirals of the imperial Navy… 06:31
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12 5: Of the proconsuls in the field of Empire that summer… 09:20
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13 6: Two politicians of very different stamp… 05:16
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14 Salisbury was a remote enigma to the British public. 04:48
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15 7: The men Kipling called 'the doers' were mostly unknown… 04:50
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Disc 7
1 Rhodes was first of all a money-maker. 04:03
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2 8: There were other exceptional imperialists… 02:39
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3 Chapter 14: Proconsuls 02:30
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4 2: Simla in 1897 was one of the most extraordinary places… 03:12
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5 3: In the morning Simla seemed different again… 02:54
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6 4: Seven thousand feet up, eighty miles from a railway line… 09:22
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7 5: The British Government in India was a despotism… 06:37
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8 6: So from top to bottom… 05:21
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9 7: But however original the young officers in the field… 09:49
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10 8: The Viceroy knew that his was a unique imperial trust. 09:04
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11 9: It was a bad year in India… 03:30
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12 Chapter 15: Consolations 01:19
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13 2: Sport was the first. 08:14
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14 3: Drink came next – food did not interest them half so much. 06:06
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15 4: They liked their creature comforts… 04:02
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Disc 8
1 In Australia the clubs very early became strongholds… 04:19
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2 5: Throughout the length and breadth of the Empire… 09:06
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3 6: They had developed to a new pitch of finesse… 04:32
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4 7: They enjoyed themselves with tourism. 05:07
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5 8: One easily detects pathos in these pleasures. 01:09
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6 Chapter 16: Challenge and Responses 01:59
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7 2: But one of the most enviable advantages… 04:01
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8 3: For a century living dangerously, or alone… 06:18
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9 4: Into the mystique of every British settlement… 01:57
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10 5: But there was to this great communal exploit… 06:41
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11 Chapter 17: Stones of Empire 03:51
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12 2: Supreme in every imperial city stood the house of God… 04:11
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13 3: Next to the house of God, the home of the Empire-builder. 05:56
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14 4: Public buildings of the most august elaboration… 06:34
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15 5: One day in 1836 Colonel William Light… 06:32
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16 6: The British, who generally neglected their waterfronts… 03:08
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17 7: 'The Maharajah gave the order…' 03:49
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Disc 9
1 The British had a genius for parks… 03:54
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2 8: The garden instinct of the English did not always survive… 02:35
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3 Chapter 18: Tribal Lays and Images 03:01
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4 2: No English Delacroix arose… 03:29
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5 3: Few other professional painters made the Empire… 02:26
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6 4: Most of the statues in the British Empire… 03:54
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7 5: But they were mostly of the Queen. 00:58
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8 6: Marches and oratorios, fanfares and even ballets… 05:12
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9 7: The difficulty about imperialism as a literary motif… 04:32
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10 8: Out of the frenzy three writers emerge… 05:10
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11 Yet the third of our writers, a short-sighted journalist… 05:03
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12 Nobody saw more clearly through the petty pretences… 05:52
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13 9: In literature as in art… 07:49
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14 Chapter 19: All by Steam! 06:14
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15 2: The British Empire was a development agency… 03:48
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16 3: Some of the imperial works really were on the colossal scale. 06:02
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17 4: But this was the railway age… 06:23
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18 5: There was no grand plan for the railways of the Empire. 02:33
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Disc 10
1 In India especially… 07:39
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2 6: In the last three decades of the century… 02:35
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3 7: They were making a start with tropical medicine. 04:47
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4 8: One gets the unfortunate impression… 04:05
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5 9: The natives saw this millennium, and it worked. 01:36
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6 Chapter 20: Freedmen 06:47
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7 2: Canada was still a colony of the British Empire. 04:28
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8 3: The imperial hegemony was tactfully exerted. 01:58
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9 4: Canada had become a nation, of a sort… 05:22
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10 5: The first Europeans in Canada were the French… 06:51
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11 6: The British Canadians were loyal to the Crown… 03:38
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12 7: An English Canadian, W.H. Drummond… 06:30
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13 8: They did not, for example, throw squibs at the Jubilee… 03:33
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14 9: It was not a contented country. 05:21
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15 Chapter 21: On Guard 04:19
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16 2: The land forces of the Empire were drawn… 05:52
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17 3: The Army List of 1897 records only nine… 03:51
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Disc 11
1 4: This was not a promising formula for modern war… 02:32
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2 5: But also at the Queen's command stood another army… 09:18
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3 6: It was in India that the martial heroism of Empire… 06:01
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4 7: No other imperial war had left memories so hallowed… 02:33
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5 8: Between them the two armies of the British Empire… 03:40
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6 Chapter 22: At Sea 08:02
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7 2: The Royal Navy did not lack self-esteem. 03:58
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8 3: These were the extravagances of a lost age… 03:22
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9 4: The social structure of the Navy… 05:10
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10 5: British naval strategy, such as it was… 06:25
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11 Chapter 23: Imperial Effects 03:23
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12 2: Let us ourselves, guide in hand, wander around London… 08:25
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13 3: And if, like every other visitor, we finally strolled… 03:01
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14 4: The New Imperialism was too new… 03:15
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15 5: Half without knowing it, the British had picked up… 06:11
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16 6: In 1882 there appeared in the list of English cat breeds… 02:54
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Disc 12
1 7: A shifting population of colonials moved through London. 02:57
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2 8: If the physical imprint of Empire was slight… 03:41
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3 9: The New Imperialism was potent politics. 04:17
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4 10: But cause and effect were often muddled… 09:46
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5 11: So the foreigner's first impression was right in a way. 01:05
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6 Chapter 24: Overlords 07:14
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7 2: Implanted in this melancholy setting were the Anglo-Irish… 04:11
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8 3: Many Anglo-Irish were understandably distressed… 05:15
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9 4: The Cadogans stood, ex officio… 04:56
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10 5: This queer regime remained undeterred… 04:09
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11 6: Much more permanent were the barracks… 03:44
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12 7: Of all the cities the British had created across the waters… 04:18
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13 8: Ireland was the only one of the Queen's dominions… 02:36
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14 9: 'Everything was orderly and peaceable,'… 01:50
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15 10: The Irish Times blushed. 06:50
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16 11: The noblest cause? Treason or patriotism? 01:51
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17 Chapter 25: Omens 02:00
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18 2: If precedents were anything to go by… 05:17
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19 3: Would the barbarians one day take over? 03:03
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Disc 13
1 But it was the sea that counted. 01:40
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2 4: On Jubilee evening the Governor of Bombay… 07:52
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3 5: In Egypt almost nobody wanted the British to stay… 02:20
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4 6: Everything was under control… 04:15
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5 7: Was it all worth it? 03:39
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6 8: But in that celebratory summer any weakening… 03:18
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7 9: It was not to be. 03:00
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8 Chapter 26: 'The Song on Your Bugles Blown' 02:23
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9 2: Was it a Christian Empire? 08:56
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10 3: Yet there was no rule to it. 04:16
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11 4: A less involved imperial principle… 09:18
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12 5: Plain Englishness, in those days, was a principle. 07:30
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13 6: To many Britons this was not enough. 06:16
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14 7: But if in some corners of the Empire… 03:42
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15 8: This was the saving flaw of British imperialism… 03:02
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16 Chapter 27: Finale 03:10
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17 2: So their pride was understandable… 01:38
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18 3: The New Imperialism quickly subsided. 01:16
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