The Politically Incorrect Guide to the British Empire.
Başlık:
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the British Empire.
Yazar:
Crocker, III, H. W.
ISBN:
9781596982833
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (375 pages)
Seri:
The Politically Incorrect Guides
İçerik:
Title Page -- Praise -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Part I - RULE BRITANNIA -- Chapter 1 - THE ENDURING EMPIRE -- Chapter 2 - MR. POTTER'S EMPIRE -- Part II - NORTH AMERICA -- Chapter 3 - CALLING THE NEW WORLD INTO EXISTENCE TO REDRESS THE BALANCE OF THE OLD -- An Empire of Liberty -- Plunder and Plantations -- We Want You for the New World -- "Setting the World on Fire" -- Imperial Summit: Wolfe at Quebec -- An Empire of Their Own -- An Imperial Family Quarrel -- The Politics of Prudence -- The Empire Strikes Back -- Chapter 4 - SIR FRANCIS DRAKE (1540-1596) -- Francis Drake: Preacher's Kid Turned Pirate -- Raider of the Spanish Main -- The Terror of All the Seas -- Armada! -- Chapter 5 - SIR HENRY MORGAN (1635-1684) -- "More Used to the Pike Than the Book" -- Vice Admiral of Buccaneers -- The Governor's Deputy -- Chapter 6 - CHARLES CORNWALLIS, 1ST MARQUESS CORNWALLIS (1738-1805) -- The Reluctant General -- Yorktown -- A Passage to India -- Part III - IRELAND AND JOHN BULL'S OTHER EUROPEAN ISLANDS -- Chapter 7 - THE SHAMROCK AND THE ROCK -- The Arrival of the English -- Going Native -- Ireland: England's Tijuana -- War, War, and More War -- Good Time Charlie and the Siege of Derry -- Reform and Famine -- Independence: Gladstone and Parnell -- Lloyd George and De Valera -- "Ulster Will Fight -- Ulster Will Be Right!" -- The Gunman's Republic -- Irish Peace at Last -- Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, and the Ionian Islands -- Chapter 8 - SIR WALTER RALEIGH (1554-1618) -- Virginia's Founder -- In Search of El Dorado -- Chapter Nine - ARTHUR WELLESLEY, THE 1ST DUKE OF WELLINGTON (1769-1852) -- Napoleon's Nemesis -- Pillar of State -- Chapter 10 - SIR CHARLES NAPIER (1782-1855) -- Peccavi -- Part IV - INDIA -- Chapter 11 - THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN -- Avenging the Black Hole of Calcutta -- An Evolving Empire -- The Great Indian Mutiny -- Kim's Commission.
Gandhi versus Churchill -- Chapter 12 - ROBERT CLIVE, 1ST BARON CLIVE (1725-1774) -- From Clerk to Hero -- The Prize of Plassey -- Ennobled but Not Respected -- Chapter 13 - GEORGE CURZON, 1ST MARQUESS CURZON OF KEDLESTON (1859-1925) -- The Great Viceroy -- Curzon's Age of Lead -- Chapter 14 - LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN, 1ST EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA (1900-1979) -- Young Mountbatten -- Labour's Viceroy -- Part V - AFRICA -- Chapter 15 - THE DARK CONTINENT -- Ashanti -- Lord Lugard and "Indirect Rule" -- Cry, the Beloved Country -- The Boer War -- The Wind of Change -- Chapter 16 - GENERAL CHARLES GEORGE GORDON (1833-1885) -- The Ever Victorious Army -- Gordon of Khartoum -- Chapter 17 - HERBERT KITCHENER, 1ST EARL KITCHENER (1850-1916) -- Secret Agent in the Sudan -- Omdurman -- Battling the Boers -- Kitchener: The Great Recruiting Poster -- Chapter 18 - IAN DOUGLAS SMITH (1919-2007) -- UDI -- Après Smith le Déluge -- Part VI - MIDDLE AND NEAR EAST -- Chapter 19 - THE LOVE OF DESOLATE PLACES -- Passport to Suez -- Denouement at Suez -- The Kingdom of Iraq -- The Power behind the Peacock Throne -- Between Two Ancient Peoples: Arabia and Palestine -- Adventures in Aden -- Chapter 20 - SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON (1821-1890) -- Soldier and Spy -- The Great Adventure -- Cannibals and a Knighthood -- Chapter 21 - T. E. LAWRENCE (1888-1935) -- Revolt in the Desert -- Lawrence of Arabia -- Maker of the Middle East -- Chapter 22 - LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR JOHN BAGOT GLUBB (1897-1986) -- Glubb of Mesopotamia -- The End of Glubb Pasha -- Part VII - AUSTRALIA AND THE FAR EAST -- Chapter 23 - AUSSIE RULES -- Imperial Australia -- Australia at War -- The Kiwi Connection -- Hong Kong -- An Empire of Capitalists, Rajahs, and Planters -- Chapter 24 - SIR THOMAS STAMFORD RAFFLES (1781-1826) and SIR JAMES BROOKE (1803-1868) -- The White Rajah.
Chapter 25 - FIELD MARSHAL SIR THOMAS BLAMEY (1884-1951) -- Australia Will Be There -- MacArthur's General -- Chapter 26 - FIELD MARSHAL SIR GERALD TEMPLER (1898-1979) -- Setting Europe Ablaze-and Sacking Konrad Adenauer -- The Tiger of Malaya -- Part VIII - RECESSIONAL -- Chapter 27 - WINSTON CHURCHILL'S LAMENT -- An Imperial Life -- NOTES -- INDEX -- Other Politically Incorrect Guides You Might Enjoy -- Also by H. W. Crocker III . . . -- Copyright Page.
Özet:
A brawling, rambunctious history celebrating the Empire-and the intrepid empire-builders-that gave the United States, Canada, India, and Australia not just a common language, but common ideals of freedom and justice The British Empire-the biggest empire in history-once ruled a quarter of the globe. It was built by an incredible array of swashbuckling soldiers and sailors, pirates and adventurers who finally get their due in H. W. Crocker III's panoramic and provocative view of four hundred years of history that will delight and amuse, educate and entertain. Strap on your pith helmet for a rollicking ride through some of history's most colorful events. Bet your teacher never told you: The Founding Fathers didn't rebel against British imperialism; they looked forward to the transfer "of the great seat of Empire to America" The original Norman English invasion of Ireland was approved by the pope Sir Charles Napier, commander in chief of the British Army in India, abolished the Hindu custom of widow-burning Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer's "hearts and minds" counter- insurgency strategy was instrumental in defeating the Communists in Malaya The breakup of the British Empire led Winston Churchill to conclude that he had achieved "nothing" in his life.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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