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Index
Title Page
Dedication
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 The World Turned Upside Down The American Revolution and the Slave Trade
2 An English Barrack in the Oriental Seas Britannia’s Indian Empire
3 Exempt from the Disaster of Caste Australia, Canada and New Zealand
4 To Stop Is Dangerous, to Recede, Ruin The Far East and Afghanistan
5 Sacred Wrath Irish Famine and Indian Mutiny
6 Spread the Peaceful Gospel—with the Maxim Gun Towards Conquest in Africa
7 A Magnificent Empire Under the British Flag Cape to Cairo
8 Barbarians Thundering at the Frontiers The Boer War and the Indian Raj
9 The Empire, Right or Wrong Flanders, Iraq, Gallipoli and Vimy Ridge
10 Aflame with the Hope of Liberation Ireland and the Middle East
11 Englishmen Like Posing as Gods West and East
12 White Mates Black in a Very Few Moves Kenya and the Sudan
13 Spinning the Destiny of India The Route to Independence
14 That Is the End of the British Empire Singapore and Burma
15 The Aim of Labour Is to Save the Empire Ceylon and Malaya
16 A Golden Bowl Full of Scorpions The Holy Land
17 The Destruction of National Will Suez Invasion and Aden Evacuation
18 Renascent Africa The Gold Coast and Nigeria
19 Uhuru —Freedom Kenya and the Mau Mau
20 Kith and Kin Rhodesia and the Central African Federation
21 Rocks and Islands The West Indies and Cyprus
22 All Our Pomp of Yesterday The Falklands and Hong Kong
Abbreviations
Notes
Sources
A Note About the Author
Also by Piers Brendon
Copyright
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