Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British - Hardcover

Paxman, Jeremy

 
9780670919574: Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0670919578 ISBN 13: 9780670919574
Verlag: Viking, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

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' 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 empire is never very 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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jeremy Paxman was born in Yorkshire and educated at Cambridge. He is an award-winning journalist who spent ten years reporting from overseas, notably for Panorama. He is the author of five books including The English. He is the presenter of Newsnight and University Challenge and has presented BBC documentaries on various subjects including Victorian art and Wilfred Owen.

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Verlag
Viking
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0670919578
ISBN 13 
9780670919574
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
368
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