Heaven's Command; Pax Britannica; Farewell The Trumpets
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Slipcase: Good. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Firm. Vol I - inscription on half-title page and name on book block.
Few empires have so captured the imagination as the British Empire at its zenith, and Jan Morris's celebrated Pax Britannica trilogy stands as the definitive literary monument to that extraordinary phenomenon. Beginning with Heaven's Command, which chronicles the Empire's breathless Victorian expansion, through the triumphant pageantry of Pax Britannica, and concluding with the elegiac Farewell the Trumpets, Morris traces the full arc of British imperial power from its muscular mid-Victorian confidence to its poignant 20th-century dissolution. Morris writes with a rare combination of scholarly rigour and lyrical brilliance, weaving together the grand sweep of geopolitical history with intimate human portraits drawn from every corner of the globe. The trilogy stands as a masterwork of narrative history — part elegy, part indictment, part love letter — that refuses easy judgement on the most ambitious exercise in nation-building the world has ever seen. Whether the Empire was humanity's greatest civilising project or its most audacious act of conquest, Morris presents the evidence in full, and leaves the reader to wrestle with the verdict.
Author: Jan Morris
Format: Hardback
Published: 1992, The Folio Society
Genre: British & Irish history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Slipcase: Good. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Firm. Vol I - inscription on half-title page and name on book block.
Few empires have so captured the imagination as the British Empire at its zenith, and Jan Morris's celebrated Pax Britannica trilogy stands as the definitive literary monument to that extraordinary phenomenon. Beginning with Heaven's Command, which chronicles the Empire's breathless Victorian expansion, through the triumphant pageantry of Pax Britannica, and concluding with the elegiac Farewell the Trumpets, Morris traces the full arc of British imperial power from its muscular mid-Victorian confidence to its poignant 20th-century dissolution. Morris writes with a rare combination of scholarly rigour and lyrical brilliance, weaving together the grand sweep of geopolitical history with intimate human portraits drawn from every corner of the globe. The trilogy stands as a masterwork of narrative history — part elegy, part indictment, part love letter — that refuses easy judgement on the most ambitious exercise in nation-building the world has ever seen. Whether the Empire was humanity's greatest civilising project or its most audacious act of conquest, Morris presents the evidence in full, and leaves the reader to wrestle with the verdict.