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

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One fine day : Britain's empire on the brink, September 29, 1923 / Matthew Parker.

Parker, Matthew, (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 9781541703827
ISBN: 1541703820
Physical Description: 593 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Edition: First US edition.
Publisher: New York : PublicAffairs, 2023.
Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Originally published in Great Britain in 2023 by Abacus, an imprint of Little, Brown UK"--Title page verso.

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- 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 -- 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'.