Read by: Roy McMillan
Language: English
Length: 17 hours and 4 minutes
Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks
Release date: 2011-07-20
Platform | Country | Chart | Last Rank | Last Ranked At |
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Apple | Top Audiobooks - History | 136 | September 19, 2024 |
The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris’s magnificent history of the British Empire from 1837 to 1965. Huge in scope and ambition, it is always personal and immediate, bringing the story vividly to life. 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 it affected its 370 million people.