Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (39 page)
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Authors: Niall Ferguson
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Steamships on the Hugli River, 1900: ‘The Merchant risks the perils of the Plain / For gain.’
Tory-entalism in action: Curzon and fellow aristocrats at Aina-Khana, Maharaja Peshkai’s Palace,
c.
1900
c.
1900
‘All description must fail to give an adequate idea of its character…’: the Dehli Durbar, 1903
Aurobindo Ghose: St. Paul’s School; King’s College, Cambridge; Alipore Courthouse
The victors of Tel-el-Kebir: Scottish troops round the Sphinx at Giza, 1882
Hiram Maxim with his gun,
c.
1880
c.
1880
Strewn like ‘dirty bits of newspaper’: Dervish dead after Omdurman, 1898
The war correspondent as hero: Winston Churchill bound for England, 1899, after escaping from captivity in Pretoria
Slaughter at Spion Kop, 1900: now the other side did have the Maxim gun
French cartoon lambasting the British concentration camps in South Africa, 1901
Imperial vampires: France, England, Russia, Japan and Germany get their claws into China: German cartoon, 1900
‘Our Allies’: French postcard of English and Indian soldiers,
c.
1916
c.
1916
Queer hero: T. E. Lawrence, 1917
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