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MORRIS, J.: Pax Britannica – The Climax of an Empire (Pax Britannica, Vol. 2) [Unabridged]

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8: This was the saving flaw of British imperialism…

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7: Was it all worth it?

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Chapter 16: Challenge and Responses

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10: For it was not viciousness, nor even simply conceit…

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11: The noblest cause? Treason or patriotism?

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2: So their pride was understandable…

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2: Was it a Christian Empire?

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3: The New Imperialism quickly subsided.

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8: But in that celebratory summer any weakening…

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In England those who believed the East could be…

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Yet the third of our writers, a short-sighted journalist…

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Chapter 27: Finale

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4: Public buildings of the most august elaboration…

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8: One gets the unfortunate impression…

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5: In Egypt almost nobody wanted the British to stay…

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Salisbury was a remote enigma to the British public.

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6: To many Britons this was not enough.

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4: A less involved imperial principle…

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4: Into the mystique of every British settlement…

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5: They walked dolorously to and fro under the glare…

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5: The British Government in India was a despotism…

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7: Among the settlers and planters of the tropical Empire…

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7: No other imperial war had left memories so hallowed…

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5: But they were mostly of the Queen.

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Chapter 5: Pioneers

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6: Among the white settlers everywhere…

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3: For a century living dangerously, or alone…

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4: From the graceful little iron suspension bridge…

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3: There were only three British soldiers…

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3: The aristocracy of Empire was the official class…

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9: It was a bad year in India…

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2: The age of the great explorers was almost over…

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5: British naval strategy, such as it was…

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Chapter 12: Imperialists in General

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5: There was no grand plan for the railways of the Empire.

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5: One day in 1836 Colonel William Light…

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4: But this was the railway age…

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5: Half without knowing it, the British had picked up…

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8: One easily detects pathos in these pleasures.

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4: Canada had become a nation, of a sort…

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7: But however original the young officers in the field…

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Chapter 15: Consolations

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8: If the physical imprint of Empire was slight…

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7: They enjoyed themselves with tourism.

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4: This was not a promising formula for modern war…

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5: This queer regime remained undeterred…

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6: It was in India that the martial heroism of Empire…

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7: They were making a start with tropical medicine.

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10: The Irish Times blushed.

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But it was the sea that counted.

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3: These were the extravagances of a lost age…

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9: Brigade-Surgeon Gouldsbury never returned to St. Lucia…

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3: Next to the house of God, the home of the Empire-builder.

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7: A shifting population of colonials moved through London.

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7: But if in some corners of the Empire…

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9: It was not to be.

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5: Of the proconsuls in the field of Empire that summer…

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6: They had developed to a new pitch of finesse…

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Chapter 26: 'The Song on Your Bugles Blown'

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4: Alone among the admirals of the imperial Navy…

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7: Paddling up the Nile with Oxford marmalade…

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9: Loftily above it all, the supreme fount of imperial justice…

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4: The Cadogans stood, ex officio…

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2: At one end were the great self-governing colonies…

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8: A vassal could qualify for respect…

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3: It was a colony exceptional in its beauty…

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5: Plain Englishness, in those days, was a principle.

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4: On Jubilee evening the Governor of Bombay…

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3: Yet there was no rule to it.

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3: Would the barbarians one day take over?

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6: Everything was under control…

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9: The natives saw this millennium, and it worked.

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3: And if, like every other visitor, we finally strolled…

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9: On the banks of the Hooghly River in Calcutta…

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9: 'Everything was orderly and peaceable,'…

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Chapter 25: Omens

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2: If precedents were anything to go by…

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2: In the 1890s this atavistic view of imperial profit…

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4: They liked their creature comforts…

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8: Ireland was the only one of the Queen's dominions…

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7: Of all the cities the British had created across the waters…

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11: So the foreigner's first impression was right in a way.

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4: As for the flora and fauna…

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Chapter 24: Overlords

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8: Out of the frenzy three writers emerge…

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2: Implanted in this melancholy setting were the Anglo-Irish…

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8: Between them the two armies of the British Empire…

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5: Throughout the length and breadth of the Empire…

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2: The land forces of the Empire were drawn…

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6: Often, when a merchant ship approached the entrance…

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9: It was not a contented country.

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4: It was a common belief among the late Victorians…

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8: They did not, for example, throw squibs at the Jubilee…

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6: Much more permanent were the barracks…

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7: The men Kipling called 'the doers' were mostly unknown…

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3: But to be coloured was something else.

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Chapter 13: Imperialists in Particular

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3: If the Empire dispersed the British…

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Chapter 21: On Guard

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