A comprehensive, scholarly and fascinating study of the end of the
British Empire.
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 coloured 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 for 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 Commonwealth. 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.
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 Hardcover edition."
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