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Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress (Pax Britannica, Vol. 1) (Abridged)

Roy Mcmillan

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2011
6 Volumes
79 Tracks

07:30:19

Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress (Pax Britannica, Vol. 1) (Abridged)

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Volume 1

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Introduction by Jan Morris

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Part 1 The Sentiment of Empire 1837–1850

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Far away Lord Auckland laboured…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Though slavery had been so old an imperial practice…

    05:25

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): At first the Royal Navy tried to end the traffic…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): So the first monuments of Queen Victoria's empire…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): The Boers of the Great Trek – The Voortrekkers…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Retief was courteously received.

    07:48

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): They built the church they had vowed…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): On the dirt road west of Mirzapur on the Ganges…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): By western criminal standards these were motiveless crimes.

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): The first big Victorian war was precipitated…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): The story of the war against the Afghans is full of omens…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): At this climactic moment there arrived upon the scene…

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Volume 2

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Even now the Afghans expected reprisals…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): By the end of the fifth day the last of the sepoys were dead…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): On the other side of the world, on a summer day…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): By the 1840s, nevertheless, there was pressure…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Some of the white settlers were already quite urbane.

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): A very different kind of society was established…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Such were two of the Empire's white settlement colonies.

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): In the county of Cork in south-west Ireland…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): In the early 1840s, before the Famine…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): In the middle of it all O'Connell, aged and demoralized, died…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Never again would the British shirk their imperial duties…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Next the British power, with some false starts…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): All this in his thirties, at a time when the British services…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Part 2 The Growing Conviction 1850–1870

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Volume 3

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): The Crystal Palace was made entirely of glass and iron…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Many of the Empire's grandest monuments were railway works.

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Here is another memorable product of the imperial technology.

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): High above the Jumna River at Delhi…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): But it was not a national revolution at all…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): It was Sunday next day, May 10, 1857…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): This pathetic action was to enter the mythology of the Empire.

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): The other sacramental episode of the Indian Mutiny…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): At the end of October word filtered in…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): In 1861, work began on the construction of a new headquarters…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): All over the Empire this trend towards the aloof…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): On September 16, 1864, the spa of Bath in Somerset awoke…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): The compelling fascination of the Nile had exerted itself…

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Volume 4

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): But Speke went back with a very different companion…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Livingstone, it seemed, did not in the least wish to be rescued.

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): The conviction of Empire was increasingly reinforced…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): When the Anglican Bishop of Jamaica visited his flock…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): In Cape Town Bishop Robert Grey…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): These imperial disputes were comprehensible only to the elect…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): The British were now exporting to their dominions…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): The Metis were not forewarned of these developments.

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Trade was resumed.

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Wolseley was to talk about it for the rest of his life…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Still the British as a nation were not conscious expansionists.

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Until recently the Fijians had been polygamous cannibals.

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Part 3 The Imperial Obsession 1870–1897

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Disraeli adopted the imperial cause deliberately.

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Volume 5

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Disraeli did not of course invent imperialism…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): The profit motive, too, had subtly shifted its emphasis.

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): In Africa stood Ashanti-land.

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): It was only in the 1870s…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): In the end the Ashanti broke…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Behind the Army stood the Royal Navy.

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Disraeli, who became Prime Minister for the second time…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): The South African scene had changed…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): The fascination of the Zulu War…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Eleven heroes of Rorke's Drift were awarded the Victoria Cross…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Except for the quiescent Orange Free State…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Empire was race.

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Authority could not sanction the extermination of the natives…

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Volume 6

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Through all these years Ireland festered.

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Nobody was more shut off from the life of the country…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): This led to the most spectacular of all Parnell's…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): But in the same month as the presentation…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): The British repeatedly claimed…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): On February 18, 1884, he reached Khartoum.

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): 'Who,' asked Ruskin once…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): In the last week of December 1895…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Empires were fashionable everywhere now.

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): Rhodes was an enigma…

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    Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged): The failure of the Jameson Raid was an omen…

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