The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997
By Piers Brendon.
Description
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 wi...
ISBN(s)
0712668462, 9780712668460
