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Pax Britannica

The Climax of an Empire - Pax Britannica, Volume 2

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Pax Britannica

By: Jan Morris
Narrated by: Roy McMillan
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The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris’s magnificent history of the British Empire from 1837 to 1965. Huge in scope and ambition, it is always personal and immediate, bringing the story vividly to life. Pax Britannica, the second volume, is a snapshot of the Empire at the Diamond Jubilee of 1897. It looks at what made up the Empire —from adventurers and politicians to communications and infrastructure, as well as anomalies and eccentricities. This humane overview also examines the muddle of jumbled ideologies behind it, and how it affected its 370 million people.

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©1968 Jan Morris (P)2011 Naxos AudioBooks Europe Great Britain World England

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Still brilliant. Jan Morris really went to town with these histories. Like Edward Gibbon, Morris has a humour not seen in most historians and an ability to right extremely good prose. I must say this sequel felt a bit samey. I wanted a short chapter of the Duke of Wellington. in the first book we are indeed treated to chapter on various people. Anyway, this is still an enjoyable listen.

the sequel is never as good as the first

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This review is for all three large volumes of Mr Morris's brilliant and exhaustive work tracing the rise and fall of the British Empire in exquisite detail. From the grand sweep of history to the obscure backwoods incidents and the always fascinating explanations of all sorts of things and "facts" that we take for granted today which it turns out did not happen in the way traditional history would have us believe.



Another amazing part of the book is as it was written in the 1960s there isno PC rubbish or mincing of words to avoid notional offense given to any race or religion, all are treated equally and their stories told in all the gory details good or bad - this is certainly not a glorious whitewash of the Empire's history it is honest and frank in every way possibe.



The most unusual thing for me are the Irish sections which in mostly tends to be glossed over in the UK and still is today, this however was a relevation to me on the course and history of the "Irish Troubles".



The whole thing is a must for anybody interested in World History, I doubt I could have sat and read the books but on Audio they are brilliant.



Jonah

Very Long & Fascinating

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I loved every minute. so well done and researched. thanks it enriched my life.

I was born in 1970 and lived in many of these places as I grew up post empire. very in line with views I heard.

it's a personalized version of history.

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Just finished this and now the whole series, was truly remarkable and felt as though I was there, very enthralling

Amazing series of books

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