One fine day : 29 September 1923 : Britain's empire on the brink / Matthew Parker.
By: Parker, Matthew [author.]
.Publisher: London : Abacus Books, 2023Description: 593 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm.Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781408708583.Subject(s): Great Britain -- Colonies -- History | Great Britain -- Colonies -- Social life and customs | Imperialism -- HistoryDDC classification: 909.0971241 Summary: On Saturday 29 September 1923, the Palestine Mandate became law and the British Empire reached what would prove to be its maximum territorial extent, covering a scarcely credible quarter of the world's land mass, containing 460 million people. But the tide was beginning to turn. This book is a new way of looking at the British Empire. It immerses the reader in the contemporary moment, focusing on particular people and stories from that day, gleaned from newspapers, letters, diaries, official documents, magazines, films and novels: from a remote Pacific Island facing the removal of its entire soil, across Australia, Burma, India and Kenya to London and the West Indies.Summary: The story of the greatest empire in world history at its absolute, hubristic zenith, told masterfully by a critically acclaimed historian.
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Includes index.
On Saturday 29 September 1923, the Palestine Mandate became law and the British Empire reached what would prove to be its maximum territorial extent, covering a scarcely credible quarter of the world's land mass, containing 460 million people. But the tide was beginning to turn. This book is a new way of looking at the British Empire. It immerses the reader in the contemporary moment, focusing on particular people and stories from that day, gleaned from newspapers, letters, diaries, official documents, magazines, films and novels: from a remote Pacific Island facing the removal of its entire soil, across Australia, Burma, India and Kenya to London and the West Indies.
The story of the greatest empire in world history at its absolute, hubristic zenith, told masterfully by a critically acclaimed historian.