TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brendon, Piers
TI  - The decline and fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997
SN  - 9780224062220
U1  - 900 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London
PB  - Jonathan Cape
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - History
KW  - 19th Century
KW  - 20th Century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1 The World Turned Upside Down
The American Revolution and the Slave Trade

2 'An Engiish Barrack in the Oriental Seas'
Britannia's Indian Empire

3 Exempt from the Disaster of C'aste'
Australia, Clanada and New Zealand

4 To Stop is Dangerous, to Recede, Ruin'
The Tar hast 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 lndia
The Route to Independence

14 ' That is the laid 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 hand

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
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