Pax Britannica - The Climax of an Empire

Faber & Faber, 1968, 1st edition, very good condition, with dustwrapper, price unclipped, clean and bright, binding tight

Portrait of an empire: the largest of empires, the British, at a culminating moment, the Diamond Jubilee of 1897. Using the advantages of the traveller and the techniques of a descriptive reporter, Morris has recreated Victoria's empire just as it was - what it looked like, how it worked, what its purposes were, who ran it. In some ways the book, in all its romantic sweep and its affectionate mass of detail, is a microcosm of its own subject - a narrative picture. This is the centre-piece of a trilogy, preceded by Heaven's Command and followed by Farewell the Trumpets...