Buy this book on-line PAXMAN**, JEREMY: : EMPIRE: What Ruling the World Did to the BritishLONDON.VIKING/PENGUIN,2011. ISBN 9780670919574.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.] FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,b/w illus+photographic illustrated dw/dj,with red,gilt and black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,
sharp-cornered,publisher's original,
plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a black+white striped headband and immaculate colour pictorial illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vipp+2 -356pp [paginated] includes illustrations list/table,an introduction,13 chapters, contemporary historical b/w reproduction illustrations as chapter headpieces, acknowledgements,notes,a bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,a dedication,double-page b/w British Empire map (c.1905) and 2pp blanks after index.
The influence of the British Empire is everywhere,from the very existence of the United Kingdom to the ethnic composition of our cities.It affects everything,from Prime Ministers' decision to send troops to war to adventures we admire.Whether it's the sports we think we're good at or the architecture of our buildings,the way we travel or the way we trade,the hopeless losers we urge on or the food we hunger for,the British Empire is never far away.
In this acute and witty analysis,Jeremy 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.
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