Heaven's command;: An imperial progress
Language: English
Published by Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1974
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- Title
- Heaven's command;: An imperial progress
- Author
- Morris, James
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich
- Publication year
- 1974
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 015139900X
- ISBN 13
- 9780151399000
- Item weight
- 48 ounces
- Dimensions
- 7x5x1
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Review
Jan Morris's Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress is the first of her imperial trilogy, Pax Britannica. It isn't the newest history of the British Empire but it is easily the most readable, with a knack of including details that make us reflect on the present. Roy McMillan thoroughly enjoys narrating a story full of happy warriors and generous spirits that people the far-flung places once so flamboyantly pink with memorable characters, but shrewdly avoids rose-tinted spectacles. --Christina Hardyment, The Times
Published nearly 40 years ago, Jan Morris's Pax Britannica trilogy has never been equalled. This first volume of her biography of the British empire runs from Victoria's accession in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897 taking in, besides much else, the Great Game, the Irish famine, the Indian Mutiny, the Jamaica Rebellion and the Scramble for Africa. Elegantly written, it is both delightful and consistently erudite, while Roy McMillan's reading glows with the same infectious passion for the subject as Jan Morris's own. --Rachel Redford, The Observer
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