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One fine day Britain's empire on the brink, September 29, 1923

September 29, 1923. Once the Palestine Mandate officially takes effect, the British Empire - now covering a quarter of the world's land and boasting a population of 460 million - is the largest the world has ever seen. But it is also an empire in rapid transition. Nationalist and Pan-African mo...

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Main Author: Parker, Matthew (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : PublicAffairs, 2023.
Edition: First US edition.
Subjects:
Imperialism > History > 20th century.
Great Britain > Colonies > History > 20th century.
Great Britain > Colonies > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Part one: The sun rises
  • Consuming Ocean Island
  • 'The Great Inter-Britannic Council'
  • The metropole
  • 'Australia unlimited'
  • 'A moron from Whitechapel'
  • 'The dream of the heart'
  • The 'prince of hearts' : 'pivot of empire'
  • 'Dying races'
  • 'The man with a million patients'
  • 'Subtle and even more deadly influences'
  • Grimble in paradise
  • 'Empire bunk'
  • Forster and Nehru
  • 'Loyal India'
  • Amritsar
  • 'The moment of moments'
  • 'An organization of real power'
  • 'An orgy of arrests'
  • Chinese Malaya
  • 'A true Malayan spirit'
  • 'Schizoid rule'
  • 'Fatherless young chickens' and 'pale strangers' ; An empire of sport
  • Part two: The sun sets
  • The lost kingdom
  • Imperial Orwell
  • The big shoot
  • Kenya : the law of rule
  • 'A situation of grave peril might have arisen'
  • India's America
  • 'A red-letter day'
  • 'Africa for the Africans'
  • Health and education in West Africa
  • Freetown's Technical School for Girls
  • The Economic Conference
  • The morbid age
  • 'The empire's darkest slum'
  • 'Not yet'.

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