After the Victorians The Decline of Britain in the World

Name: After the Victorians The Decline of Britain in the World
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ISBN: 9780312425159

ISBN-10: 0312425155

ISBN-13: 9780312425159

Edition: N/A

Authors: A. N. Wilson

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AGuardianFavorite Book of the Year nbsp; A. N. Wilson's landmark sequel toThe Victoriansis a colorful, panoramic portrait of the era that began with the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 and extended to the dawn of the Cold War in the early 1950s. Expertly mapping the connections between military, political, social, and cultural history,nbsp;After the Victoriansis an incisive chronicle of Great Britain's decline. Wilson delivers a timely analysis of imperialism and its discontents and a fresh account of the birth pangs of the modern world.

Book details

List price: $31.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 9/19/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 624
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Foreword and Acknowledgements



Oedipus Rex, Oedipus Kaiser



Rupees and Virgins



The Land



The Accursed Power



Love in the Suburbs



God - and the Americans



Nationalisms



Shipwreck



An Asiatic Power



Barbarous Kings



Revolutions



Chief



Peace



Protons - Massacres - Bombs. Ireland and Iraq



Communists and Fascism - The Allure of Violence



The Silly Generation - From Oswald Spengler to Noel Coward



The Means of Grace and the Hope of Glory



The Secrets of a Woman's Heart - Marie Stopes, Radclyffe Hall



For the Benefit of Empire



The ABC of Economics



Puzzles and Pastoral



Two Thousand Whispered Voices



Politics



The Abdication



The European Crisis



The Special Relationship I



Churchill in 1940



From the Battle of Britain to Pearl Harbor



Bombers and the Bombed



In the Broadcast



The Special Relationship II



Prisoners



If God Wearied of Mankind



Retributions



The End of the British Empire - India and Palestine



Widmerpool's Britain



The Hereditary Principle


Notes


Bibliography


Index