Книга: Piers Brendon «The Decline and Fall of the British Empire»
Серия: "-" No empire has been larger or more diverse than the British Empire. At its apogee in the 1930s, 42 million Britons governed 500 million foreign subjects. Britannia ruled the waves and a quarter of the earth’s surface was painted red on the map. Where Britain’s writ did not run directly, its influence, sustained by matchless industrial and commercial sinews, was often paramount. Yet no empire (except the Russian) disappeared more swiftly. Within a generation this mighty structure sank almost without trace, leaving behind a scatter of sea-girt dependencies and a ghost of empire, the British Commonwealth of nations. Equally, it can be claimed that Britain bequeathed its former colonies economic foundations, a cultural legacy, a sporting spirit, a legal code and a language more ubiquitous than Latin ever was. In a book of unparalleled scholarship, Piers Brendon presents the story of the decline and eclipse of British might, the major historical event in the closing stages of the second millennium. Full of vivid particulars, brief lives, telling anecdotes, comic episodes, symbolic moments and illustrative vignettes, "The Decline and Fall of the British Empire" evokes remote places as well as distant times. From the war for American independence, the end of the Raj, the‘scram out of Africa’ and the unfinished business of the Falklands and Hong Kong to the new ‘informal’ empire of the United States, this is a comprehensive and engaging account. Издательство: "Random House, Inc." (2008)
ISBN: 978-0-7126-6846-0 |
Piers Brendon
Piers Brendon (born
He was Keeper of the Archives at The Churchill Archives Centre,
Works
*"Hurrell Froude and the Oxford Movement" (1974)
*"Hawker of Morwenstow - Portrait of a Victorian Eccentric" (1975)
*"A Quest of the Sangraal", "Cornish Ballads & Other Poems", Robert Stephen Hawker (1975) editor
*"Eminent Edwardians" (1979) Houghton Mifflin Company, ISBN 0-395-29195-X
*"The Life and Death of The Press Barons" (1983)
*"Winston Churchill: A Brief Life" (1984)
*"Ike - the Life and Times of Dwight D. Eisenhower" (1986)
*"Our Own Dear Queen" (1986)
*"Thomas Cook - 150 Years of Popular Tourism" (1991)
*"The Age of Reform 1820-1850" (1994)
*"The Motoring Century: Story of the Royal Automobile Club" (1997)
*"The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s" (2000) ISBN 0-375-70808-1
*"The Windsors - A Dynasty Revealed 1917-2000" (2000) with Phillip Whitehead
*"The Decline and Fall of the British Empire" (2007)
Notes
External links
* [http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FBREN]
Источник: Piers Brendon
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