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)
1Introduction read by Jan Morris03:51
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
2Pax Britannica – The Climax of an Empire07:07
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
3Within two minutes we are told…04:31
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
4The Diamond Jubilee crystallized the new conception of Empire…06:56
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
5Most Englishmen asked what it was all about…05:31
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
6To other nations the imperial methods often seemed…06:58
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
7The British had invented submarine cables…06:03
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
8The movement of people out of the British islands…06:29
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
9As for the flora and fauna…06:50
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
10Beneath a low kopje on the Makabusi River…06:12
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
11The Company had been, it is true, under a cloud…04:00
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
12But far lower even than the vagrants in the social scale…02:35
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
13The infatuated British public did not greatly concern itself…04:35
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
14Trade was a steadier imperial impulse…07:07
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
Disc 2
1Such was the profit-mechanism of Empire…06:15
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
2Many years before Dr. Livingstone had laid another trail…04:22
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
3The evangelical mood was now past its prime…04:14
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
4And there was one more stimulus to splendour…06:02
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
5Another cause of racialism was fundamentalist religion…05:06
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
6The British distrusted the product of this system…07:26
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
7We have been speaking of the general…06:23
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
8Like many another island fortress…06:17
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
9Socially 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)
11Below Parliament, and subject to its Secretaries of State…04:29
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
12It was an imperial maxim that the administrators of Empire…05:24
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
13All over the Empire these administrators…06:51
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
14Some of the greatest British jurists had presided…05:29
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
Disc 3
1Consider the island of Ascension…06:14
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
2The imperial complexity was all too apparent…02:52
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
3When Kipling first went east from India…07:56
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
4By now the merchants of Empire, no less than the governors…05:18
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
5Among the white settlers everywhere…05:15
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
6The age of the great explorers was almost over…04:00
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
7There were only three British soldiers whose personalities…06:43
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
8Two politicians of very different stamp set the pace…06:51
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
9Northward from the Punjabi village of Kalka…06:21
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
10The British Government in India was a despotism…05:27
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
11The Viceroy knew that his was a unique imperial trust.06:11
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
12The New Imperialism was born out of a medley of moods…06:43
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
13They liked their creature comforts…05:06
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
Disc 4
1Throughout the length and breadth of the Empire…05:36
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
2They had developed to a new pitch of finesse…06:06
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
3Much of the driving force of imperialism…06:18
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
4But there was to this great communal exploit…05:31
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
5It was by their buildings that earlier Empires were most…07:37
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
6One day in 1836 Colonel William Light…06:10
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
7The British had a genius for parks.05:02
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
8Most of the statues in the British Empire…05:58
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
9The difficulty about imperialism as a literary motif…04:52
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
10Yet the third of our writers, a short-sighted journalist…04:51
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
11In literature as in art, the British settlers overseas…03:05
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
12Among the waters of the Indus Basin…06:34
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
13But this was the railway age – its tail-end in Britain…06:49
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
14They were making a start with tropical medicine.04:14
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
Disc 5
1In 1897 the most-frequented route into the goldfields…05:44
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
2Canada was still a colony of the British Empire…04:34
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
3The first Europeans in Canada were the French…07:30
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
4The Pax Britannica was not a boastful fraud.06:04
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
5But also at the Queen's command stood another army…06:00
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
6The great shrine of the epic…05:55
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
7To every right-thinking Englishman the Army was only…05:01
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
8In materiel, too, the Royal Navy was deficient in some…03:53
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
9Let us ourselves, guide in hand, wander around London…07:28
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
10The New Imperialism was too new, and too sudden…05:46
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
11A shifting population of colonials moved through London.04:15
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
12But cause and effect were often muddled…05:23
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
13By Telford's road or Stephenson's railway line…04:57
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
14The British in Ireland did not think of themselves…06:14
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
Disc 6
1Of all the cities the British had created across the waters…04:58
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
2Where there was not actual opposition…04:40
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
3If precedents were anything to go by…04:56
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
4Some of its foreign critics were merely jealous.04:28
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
5The fashionable New Imperialist theory…02:52
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
6Was it a Christian Empire?03:36
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
7Buried away among it all was a conviction…03:57
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
8The British missed no opportunity to demonstrate the wealth…05:35
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
9In these years African chiefs of savage splendour…04:25
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
10But if in some corners of the British Empire…04:04
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
11Queen Victoria went home happy on her Jubilee Day.05:10
McMillan, Roy (Reader)

Total Playing Time: 07:18:56