Pax Britannica, Jan Morris
Pax Britannica, Jan Morris
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Pax Britannica

Author: Jan Morris

Narrator: Roy McMillan

Unabridged: 17 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 06/27/2011

Synopsis

The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris’s masterly telling of the British Empire from the accession of Queen Victoria to the death of Winston Churchill. It is a towering achievement: informative, accessible, entertaining and written with all her usual bravura. 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 they affected its 370 million people.

About Jan Morris

Born in 1926, Jan Morris lived and wrote as James Morris until 1972. She resides with her partner, Elizabeth Morris, in northwest Wales, between the mountains and the sea. Her many books include In My Mind's Eye, Coronation Everest, and the Pax Britannica Trilogy.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lewis

The second volume in the trilogy. The author centres the book around Queen Victoria's jubilee year of 1897, what might be called "Peak Empire" and uses that year as a nail to hang the story on. This book succeeds not just by recounting details of battles and leaders but by painting a portrait of the......more

Goodreads review by Randall

This book is a snapshot of the British Empire in 1897 when “The British Empire sprawled across all the continents.” “Gladstone’s (Liberal) voice, the voice of the English conscience, was silent.” “British ascendancy” was “propped up with pomp and ceremony.” At that time British controlled Ireland, G......more

Goodreads review by Gerald

The year 1897 is the peg upon which Jan Morris hangs her overview of the British Empire in the hour of its greatest glory. 1897 because it was the year of Victoria's golden jubilee, Queen for sixty years. As we approach a similar milestone in the reign of Elizabeth II the book acquires added piquanc......more

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