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Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged)

  • Release Date: 5th Jul 2011
  • Catalogue No: NA0037
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

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Jan Morris: Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire (Abridged)

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

Introduction read by Jan Morris

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Pax Britannica – The Climax of an Empire

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Within two minutes we are told…

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The Diamond Jubilee crystallized the new conception of Empire…

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Most Englishmen asked what it was all about…

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To other nations the imperial methods often seemed…

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The British had invented submarine cables…

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The movement of people out of the British islands…

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As for the flora and fauna…

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Beneath a low kopje on the Makabusi River…

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The Company had been, it is true, under a cloud…

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But far lower even than the vagrants in the social scale…

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The infatuated British public did not greatly concern itself…

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Trade was a steadier imperial impulse…

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Such was the profit-mechanism of Empire…

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Many years before Dr. Livingstone had laid another trail…

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The evangelical mood was now past its prime…

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And there was one more stimulus to splendour…

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Another cause of racialism was fundamentalist religion…

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The British distrusted the product of this system…

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We have been speaking of the general…

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Like many another island fortress…

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Socially St. Lucia tended to dwell upon a past…

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'No Caesar or Charlemagne,' Disraeli once said…

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Below Parliament, and subject to its Secretaries of State…

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It was an imperial maxim that the administrators of Empire…

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All over the Empire these administrators…

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Some of the greatest British jurists had presided…

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Consider the island of Ascension…

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The imperial complexity was all too apparent…

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When Kipling first went east from India…

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By now the merchants of Empire, no less than the governors…

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Among the white settlers everywhere…

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The age of the great explorers was almost over…

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There were only three British soldiers whose personalities…

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Two politicians of very different stamp set the pace…

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Northward from the Punjabi village of Kalka…

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The British Government in India was a despotism…

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The Viceroy knew that his was a unique imperial trust.

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The New Imperialism was born out of a medley of moods…

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They liked their creature comforts…

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Throughout the length and breadth of the Empire…

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They had developed to a new pitch of finesse…

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Much of the driving force of imperialism…

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But there was to this great communal exploit…

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It was by their buildings that earlier Empires were most…

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One day in 1836 Colonel William Light…

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The British had a genius for parks.

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Most of the statues in the British Empire…

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The difficulty about imperialism as a literary motif…

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

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In literature as in art, the British settlers overseas…

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Among the waters of the Indus Basin…

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But this was the railway age – its tail-end in Britain…

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They were making a start with tropical medicine.

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In 1897 the most-frequented route into the goldfields…

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Canada was still a colony of the British Empire…

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The first Europeans in Canada were the French…

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The Pax Britannica was not a boastful fraud.

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But also at the Queen's command stood another army…

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The great shrine of the epic…

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To every right-thinking Englishman the Army was only…

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In materiel, too, the Royal Navy was deficient in some…

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Let us ourselves, guide in hand, wander around London…

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The New Imperialism was too new, and too sudden…

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A shifting population of colonials moved through London.

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But cause and effect were often muddled…

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By Telford's road or Stephenson's railway line…

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The British in Ireland did not think of themselves…

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

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Where there was not actual opposition…

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If precedents were anything to go by…

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Some of its foreign critics were merely jealous.

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The fashionable New Imperialist theory…

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Was it a Christian Empire?

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Buried away among it all was a conviction…

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The British missed no opportunity to demonstrate the wealth…

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In these years African chiefs of savage splendour…

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But if in some corners of the British Empire…

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Queen Victoria went home happy on her Jubilee Day.

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