One fine day : Britain's empire on the brink, September 29, 1923
by Parker, Matthew (Author)
Summary
September 29, 1923. Once the Palestine Mandate officially takes effect, the British Empire - now covering a quarter of the world's land and boasting a population of 460 million - is the largest the world has ever seen. But it is also an empire in rapid transition. Nationalist and Pan-African movemen... Full description
- Part one: The sun rises
- Consuming Ocean Island
- 'The Great Inter-Britannic Council'
- The metropole
- 'Australia unlimited'
- 'A moron from Whitechapel'
- 'The dream of the heart'
- The 'prince of hearts' : 'pivot of empire'
- 'Dying races'
- 'The man with a million patients'
- 'Subtle and even more deadly influences'
- Grimble in paradise
- 'Empire bunk'
- Forster and Nehru
- 'Loyal India'
- Amritsar
- 'The moment of moments'
- 'An organization of real power'
- 'An orgy of arrests'
- Chinese Malaya
- 'A true Malayan spirit'
- 'Schizoid rule'
- 'Fatherless young chickens' and 'pale strangers' ; An empire of sport
- Part two: The sun sets
- The lost kingdom
- Imperial Orwell
- The big shoot
- Kenya : the law of rule
- 'A situation of grave peril might have arisen'
- India's America
- 'A red-letter day'
- 'Africa for the Africans'
- Health and education in West Africa
- Freetown's Technical School for Girls
- The Economic Conference
- The morbid age
- 'The empire's darkest slum'
- 'Not yet'.