Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British

Jeremy Paxman

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Editorial: Penguin Random House Australia, Australia, Hawthorn, 2011

0670919586 / 9780670919581

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The British empire is long gone. Conventional wisdom has decreed it was A Bad Thing and that there's no more to be said. Darkest night has fallen over the empire on which the sun never set. Or so we like to think. In Out of Empire, Jeremy Paxman examines this belief and finds it wanting. The influence of empire is everywhere, from the very existence of the United Kingdom to the ethnic composition of our cities. It affects everything, from Prime Ministers' decisions to send troops to war to the adventurers we admire. From the sports we think we're good at to the architecture of our buildings; the way we travel to the way we trade; the hopeless losers we will on, and the food we hunger for, the British Empire is never very far away. In this acute and witty analysis, Paxman goes to the very heart of empire. As he describes the selection process for colonial officers ('intended to weed out the cad, the feeble and the too clever'), the importance of sport, the sweating domestic life of the colonial officer's wife ('the challenge with cooking meat was "to grasp the fleeting moment between toughness and putrefaction when the joint may possibly prove eatable" ') and the crazed end for General Gordon of Khartoum, Paxman brings brilliantly to life the tragedy and comedy of Empire and reveals its profound and lasting effect on our nation and ourselves. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

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Título
Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British
Autor
Jeremy Paxman
Editorial
Penguin Random House Australia, Australia, Hawthorn
Año de publicación
2011
Estado
Very Good
Encuadernación
Paperback
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
0670919586
ISBN 13
9780670919581
Peso del artículo
481 gramos
Dimensiones
151.89 x 32.00

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