Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British by Jeremy Paxman

Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British

Jeremy Paxman

349 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

fiction history politics adventurous funny informative slow-paced
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In this acute and witty analysis, Jeremy Paxman goes to the very heart of empire. As he describes the selection process for colonial officers ('intended to weed out the cad, the feeble and the too clever') the importance of sport, the sweating dom...

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