Brendon, Piers <br/><br/>
The decline and fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997 / 
Piers Brendon 
 - London:  Jonathan Cape,  2007. 
 - xxii, 793 p., [24] p. of plates:  ill.;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>1 The World Turned Upside Down<br/>The American Revolution and the Slave Trade<br/><br/>2 'An Engiish Barrack in the Oriental Seas'<br/>Britannia's Indian Empire<br/><br/>3 Exempt from the Disaster of C'aste'<br/>Australia, Clanada and New Zealand<br/><br/>4 To Stop is Dangerous, to Recede, Ruin'<br/>The Tar hast and Afghanistan<br/><br/>5 'Sacred Wrath'<br/>Irish Famine and Indian Mutiny<br/><br/>6 'Spread the Peaceful Gospel - with the Maxim Gun'<br/>Towards Conquest in Africa<br/><br/> 7 'A Magnificent Empire under the British Flag'<br/>Cape to Cairo<br/><br/>8 'Barbarians Thundering at the Frontiers'<br/>The Boer War and the Indian Raj<br/><br/>9 'The Empire, Right or Wrong'<br/>Flanders, Iraq, Gallipoli and Vimy Ridge<br/><br/>10 'Aflame with the Hope of Liberation'<br/>Ireland and the Middle East<br/><br/>11 'Englishmen Like Posing as Gods'<br/>West and East<br/><br/>12 'White Mates Black in a Very Few Moves'<br/>Kenya and the Sudan<br/><br/>13 'Spinning the Destiny of lndia<br/>The Route to Independence<br/><br/>14 ' That is the laid of the British Empire<br/>Singapore and Burma<br/><br/>15 'The Aim of Labour is to Save the Empire<br/>Ceylon and Malaya<br/><br/>16 A Golden Bowl full of Scorpions<br/>The Holy hand<br/><br/>17 ' The Destruction of National Will<br/>Suez Invasion and Aden Evacuation<br/><br/>18 'Renascent Africa'<br/>The Gold Coast and Nigeria<br/><br/>19 ' Uhuru -Freedom'<br/>Kenya and the Mau Mau<br/><br/>20 'Kith and Kin'<br/>Rhodesia and the Central African Federation<br/><br/>21 'Rocks and Islands'<br/>The West Indies and Cyprus<br/><br/>22 'All Our Pomp of Yesterday'<br/>The Falklands and Hong Kong 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780224062220 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Imperialism--History--19th Century<br/>Imperialism--History--20th Century
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>900  / BRE/D