Heaven's Command: An Imperial ProgressThe opening volume of Morris’s “Pax Britannica Trilogy,” this richly detailed work traces the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria to the throne in 1837 to the celebration of her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Index. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book |
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... Sudan - just what , nobody was quite certain — and the man most often mentioned for the job was Gordon , a hero un ... Sudan for the British Empire ? Or did they hope , as Gladstone more probably hoped , that General Gordon would simply ...
... Sudan - just what , nobody was quite certain — and the man most often mentioned for the job was Gordon , a hero un ... Sudan for the British Empire ? Or did they hope , as Gladstone more probably hoped , that General Gordon would simply ...
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... Sudan by force of arms , and he was staking his own person as hostage . If the British public baulked at Zubeir , despised the Egyptians , was not very inter- ested in the future of the Sudan and had little idea where Khartoum was , it ...
... Sudan by force of arms , and he was staking his own person as hostage . If the British public baulked at Zubeir , despised the Egyptians , was not very inter- ested in the future of the Sudan and had little idea where Khartoum was , it ...
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... Sudan , and to embarrass the pacifist Gladstone , al- ready embarrassed enough by the conquest of Egypt : but he only half wanted to be rescued . His journal is full of the death wish , for he shared with the Mahdi and his warriors the ...
... Sudan , and to embarrass the pacifist Gladstone , al- ready embarrassed enough by the conquest of Egypt : but he only half wanted to be rescued . His journal is full of the death wish , for he shared with the Mahdi and his warriors the ...
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The ideology of Empire | 19 |
Technology and the British | 196 |
The Indian Mutiny | 218 |
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