Mad Dogs and Englishmen: A Grand Tour of the British Empire at its Height - Hardcover

Jackson, Ashley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847246079 ISBN 13: 9781847246073

Verlag: Quercus Publishing, 2009

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Mad Dogs and Englishmen is a visually arresting and richly informative tour of the British Empire at its height, when its boundaries stretched from Cairo to Cape Town and from Winnipeg to Wagga-Wagga. The empire 'on which the sun never sets' embraced peoples as diverse as head-hunting Dyaks, Eskimos, Fulani horsemen, Gulf sheikhs, Canadian hunters, Zoroastrian pilgrims, and caparisoned maharajahs.

In a sequence of thematic chapters examining every aspect of the Empire, from the imperial monarchy to the armed forces, and from district commissioners to dependent territories, Mad Dogs and Englishmen describes the shape and functioning of the largest imperium in world history. Each chapter consists of a lively and accessible essay, accompanied by a vivid and array of captioned pictures, evoking the fascinating spectacle that the British Empire presented to its citizens: the sights, scenes, and organizations that shaped the world view of people in Britain and its colonies and Dominions beyond the seas.

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At its peak the British Empire covered approximately one quarter of the Earth's total land area and ruled over the same proportion of the world's population: its boundaries stretched from Birmingham to Bombay, from Cairo to Cape Town, and from Winnipeg to Wagga-Wagga. In this unique and beautifully illustrated book, Ashley Jackson takes the reader on a visually arresting and richly informative tour of the empire 'on which the sun never set', examining the representations of empire that informed the world view of hundreds of millions of people. In a sequence of elegantly written chapters Mad Dogs and Englishmen examines every aspect of the largest imperium the world has seen, from its district commissioners to dependent territories, from its armed forces to its architecture, and from its music to its monarchy. Ashley Jackson's text is as accessible as it is scholarly, and is amplified and embellished by imperial imagery from an exceptionally wide range of media: maps, stamps, cigarette cards, coronation souvenirs, extracts from missionaries' and explorers' journals, popular sheet music, board games, cruise advertisements, children's annuals and comics, novels and their colourful dust-jackets and the popular art stimulated by epic military actions. Authoritative, sumptuous, and written by a scholar who is steeped in knowledge of the period, Mad Dogs and Englishmen evokes the fascinating sights and sounds that the British Empire presented to its citizens, and thereby brings a unique period of British and world history unforgettably to life.

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• Verlag: Quercus Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1847246079
• ISBN 13: 9781847246073
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240