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082			_a900 _bBRE/D
100			_aBrendon, Piers
245			_aThe decline and fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997 / _cPiers Brendon
260			_aLondon: _bJonathan Cape, _c2007.
300			_axxii, 793 p., [24] p. of plates: _bill.; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_a1 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
650			_aImperialism _xHistory _x19th Century
650			_aImperialism _xHistory _x20th Century
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