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Jan Morris: Heaven’s Command - An Imperial Progress (abridged)

Read by Roy McMillan

  • Release Date: 28th Mar 2011
  • Catalogue No: NA0035
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Series: Non-Fiction
  • Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

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Jan Morris: Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged)

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

Introduction by Jan Morris

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Part 1 The Sentiment of Empire 1837–1850

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Far away Lord Auckland laboured…

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Though slavery had been so old an imperial practice…

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At first the Royal Navy tried to end the traffic…

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So the first monuments of Queen Victoria's empire…

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The Boers of the Great Trek – The Voortrekkers…

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Retief was courteously received.

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They built the church they had vowed…

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On the dirt road west of Mirzapur on the Ganges…

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By western criminal standards these were motiveless crimes.

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The first big Victorian war was precipitated…

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The story of the war against the Afghans is full of omens…

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At this climactic moment there arrived upon the scene…

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Even now the Afghans expected reprisals…

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By the end of the fifth day the last of the sepoys were dead…

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On the other side of the world, on a summer day…

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By the 1840s, nevertheless, there was pressure…

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Some of the white settlers were already quite urbane.

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A very different kind of society was established…

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Such were two of the Empire's white settlement colonies.

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In the county of Cork in south-west Ireland…

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In the early 1840s, before the Famine…

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In the middle of it all O'Connell, aged and demoralized, died…

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Never again would the British shirk their imperial duties…

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Next the British power, with some false starts…

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All this in his thirties, at a time when the British services…

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Part 2 The Growing Conviction 1850–1870

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The Crystal Palace was made entirely of glass and iron…

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Many of the Empire's grandest monuments were railway works.

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Here is another memorable product of the imperial technology.

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High above the Jumna River at Delhi…

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But it was not a national revolution at all…

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It was Sunday next day, May 10, 1857…

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This pathetic action was to enter the mythology of the Empire.

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The other sacramental episode of the Indian Mutiny…

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At the end of October word filtered in…

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In 1861, work began on the construction of a new headquarters…

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All over the Empire this trend towards the aloof…

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On September 16, 1864, the spa of Bath in Somerset awoke…

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The compelling fascination of the Nile had exerted itself…

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But Speke went back with a very different companion…

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Livingstone, it seemed, did not in the least wish to be rescued.

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The conviction of Empire was increasingly reinforced…

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When the Anglican Bishop of Jamaica visited his flock…

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In Cape Town Bishop Robert Grey…

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These imperial disputes were comprehensible only to the elect…

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The British were now exporting to their dominions…

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The Metis were not forewarned of these developments.

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Trade was resumed.

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Wolseley was to talk about it for the rest of his life…

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Still the British as a nation were not conscious expansionists.

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Until recently the Fijians had been polygamous cannibals.

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Part 3 The Imperial Obsession 1870–1897

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Disraeli adopted the imperial cause deliberately.

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Disraeli did not of course invent imperialism…

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The profit motive, too, had subtly shifted its emphasis.

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In Africa stood Ashanti-land.

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It was only in the 1870s…

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In the end the Ashanti broke…

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Behind the Army stood the Royal Navy.

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Disraeli, who became Prime Minister for the second time…

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The South African scene had changed…

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The fascination of the Zulu War…

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Eleven heroes of Rorke's Drift were awarded the Victoria Cross…

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Except for the quiescent Orange Free State…

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Empire was race.

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Authority could not sanction the extermination of the natives…

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Through all these years Ireland festered.

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Nobody was more shut off from the life of the country…

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This led to the most spectacular of all Parnell's…

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But in the same month as the presentation…

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The British repeatedly claimed…

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On February 18, 1884, he reached Khartoum.

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'Who,' asked Ruskin once…

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In the last week of December 1895…

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Empires were fashionable everywhere now.

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Rhodes was an enigma…

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The failure of the Jameson Raid was an omen…

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