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Author(s): Morris, Jan
Reader(s): McMillan, Roy
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Non-Fiction
Catalogue No: NA0037
Barcode: 9781843794714
Release Date: 01/2011
MORRIS, J.: Pax Britannica – The Climax of an Empire (Pax Britannica, Vol. 2) (Abridged)
Tracklist
Disc 1
Morris, Jan - Author
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
|  | 1 | Introduction read by Jan Morris | 03:51 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 2 | Pax Britannica – The Climax of an Empire | 07:07 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 3 | Within two minutes we are told… | 04:31 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 4 | The Diamond Jubilee crystallized the new conception of Empire… | 06:56 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 5 | Most Englishmen asked what it was all about… | 05:31 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 6 | To other nations the imperial methods often seemed… | 06:58 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 7 | The British had invented submarine cables… | 06:03 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 8 | The movement of people out of the British islands… | 06:29 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 9 | As for the flora and fauna… | 06:50 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 10 | Beneath a low kopje on the Makabusi River… | 06:12 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 11 | The Company had been, it is true, under a cloud… | 04:00 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 12 | But far lower even than the vagrants in the social scale… | 02:35 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 13 | The infatuated British public did not greatly concern itself… | 04:35 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 14 | Trade was a steadier imperial impulse… | 07:07 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
Disc 2
| | 1 | Such was the profit-mechanism of Empire… | 06:15 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 2 | Many years before Dr. Livingstone had laid another trail… | 04:22 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 3 | The evangelical mood was now past its prime… | 04:14 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 4 | And there was one more stimulus to splendour… | 06:02 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 5 | Another cause of racialism was fundamentalist religion… | 05:06 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 6 | The British distrusted the product of this system… | 07:26 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 7 | We have been speaking of the general… | 06:23 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 8 | Like many another island fortress… | 06:17 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 9 | Socially St. Lucia tended to dwell upon a past… | 05:19 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 10 | 'No Caesar or Charlemagne,' Disraeli once said… | 05:29 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 11 | Below Parliament, and subject to its Secretaries of State… | 04:29 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 12 | It was an imperial maxim that the administrators of Empire… | 05:24 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 13 | All over the Empire these administrators… | 06:51 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 14 | Some of the greatest British jurists had presided… | 05:29 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
Disc 3
| | 1 | Consider the island of Ascension… | 06:14 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 2 | The imperial complexity was all too apparent… | 02:52 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 3 | When Kipling first went east from India… | 07:56 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 4 | By now the merchants of Empire, no less than the governors… | 05:18 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 5 | Among the white settlers everywhere… | 05:15 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 6 | The age of the great explorers was almost over… | 04:00 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 7 | There were only three British soldiers whose personalities… | 06:43 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 8 | Two politicians of very different stamp set the pace… | 06:51 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 9 | Northward from the Punjabi village of Kalka… | 06:21 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 10 | The British Government in India was a despotism… | 05:27 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 11 | The Viceroy knew that his was a unique imperial trust. | 06:11 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 12 | The New Imperialism was born out of a medley of moods… | 06:43 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 13 | They liked their creature comforts… | 05:06 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
Disc 4
| | 1 | Throughout the length and breadth of the Empire… | 05:36 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 2 | They had developed to a new pitch of finesse… | 06:06 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 3 | Much of the driving force of imperialism… | 06:18 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 4 | But there was to this great communal exploit… | 05:31 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 5 | It was by their buildings that earlier Empires were most… | 07:37 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 6 | One day in 1836 Colonel William Light… | 06:10 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 7 | The British had a genius for parks. | 05:02 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 8 | Most of the statues in the British Empire… | 05:58 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 9 | The difficulty about imperialism as a literary motif… | 04:52 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 10 | Yet the third of our writers, a short-sighted journalist… | 04:51 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 11 | In literature as in art, the British settlers overseas… | 03:05 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 12 | Among the waters of the Indus Basin… | 06:34 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 13 | But this was the railway age – its tail-end in Britain… | 06:49 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 14 | They were making a start with tropical medicine. | 04:14 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
Disc 5
| | 1 | In 1897 the most-frequented route into the goldfields… | 05:44 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 2 | Canada was still a colony of the British Empire… | 04:34 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 3 | The first Europeans in Canada were the French… | 07:30 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 4 | The Pax Britannica was not a boastful fraud. | 06:04 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 5 | But also at the Queen's command stood another army… | 06:00 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 6 | The great shrine of the epic… | 05:55 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 7 | To every right-thinking Englishman the Army was only… | 05:01 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 8 | In materiel, too, the Royal Navy was deficient in some… | 03:53 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 9 | Let us ourselves, guide in hand, wander around London… | 07:28 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 10 | The New Imperialism was too new, and too sudden… | 05:46 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 11 | A shifting population of colonials moved through London. | 04:15 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 12 | But cause and effect were often muddled… | 05:23 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 13 | By Telford's road or Stephenson's railway line… | 04:57 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 14 | The British in Ireland did not think of themselves… | 06:14 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
Disc 6
| | 1 | Of all the cities the British had created across the waters… | 04:58 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 2 | Where there was not actual opposition… | 04:40 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 3 | If precedents were anything to go by… | 04:56 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 4 | Some of its foreign critics were merely jealous. | 04:28 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 5 | The fashionable New Imperialist theory… | 02:52 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 6 | Was it a Christian Empire? | 03:36 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 7 | Buried away among it all was a conviction… | 03:57 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 8 | The British missed no opportunity to demonstrate the wealth… | 05:35 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 9 | In these years African chiefs of savage splendour… | 04:25 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 10 | But if in some corners of the British Empire… | 04:04 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
| | 11 | Queen Victoria went home happy on her Jubilee Day. | 05:10 |
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
Total Playing Time: 07:18:56