Heaven's Command : An Imperial Progress Paperback - 2002
by Jan Morris
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- Title Heaven's Command : An Imperial Progress
- Author Jan Morris
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 564
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, San Diego
- Date 2002
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0156027747I4N00
- ISBN 9780156027748 / 0156027747
- Weight 1.59 lbs (0.72 kg)
- Dimensions 8.42 x 5.62 x 1.36 in (21.39 x 14.27 x 3.45 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Cultural Region: British
- Dewey Decimal Code 909.097
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Summary
The opening volume of Morris’s “Pax Britannica Trilogy,” this richly detailed work traces the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria to the throne in 1837 to the celebration of her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Index. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
First line
IN October 1837 the Honourable Emily Eden, a witty and acomplished Englishwoman in her forty-first year, was accompanying her brother Lord Auckland, Governor-General of India, on an official progress up-country from Calcutta.