ISBN10: 0670919578, ISBN13: 9780670919574, [publisher: Viking, London] Hardcover First Edition EMPIRE What Ruling The World Did To The British. Jeremy Paxman. Penguin Viking, London. 2011 First edition ISBN 9780670919574 356pp Illustrated Hardback. This mint unread copy is bound in cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine, tight, white, bright and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is also in mint condition. The influence of the British Empire is everywhere, from the very existence of the United Kingdom to the ethnic composition of our cities. It affects everything, from Prime Ministers' decisions to send troops to war to the adventurers we admire. From the sports we think we're good at to the architecture of our buildings; the way we travel to the way we trade; and, the hopeless losers we will on, and the food we hunger for, the empire is never very far away. 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 domestic life of the colonial officer's wife ('the challenge with cooking meat was 'to grasp the fleeting moment between toughness and putrefaction when the joint may possibly prove eatable") and the crazed end for General Gordon of Khartoum, Paxman brings brilliantly to life the tragedy and comedy of Empire and ...

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[Morangis, France] [Publication Year: 2011]

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ISBN10: 0670919578, ISBN13: 9780670919574, [publisher: Viking] Hardcover This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:9780670919574
[Lincoln, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2011]

ISBN10: 0670919578, ISBN13: 9780670919574, [publisher: Viking] Hardcover This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:9780670919574
[Lincoln, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2011]

ISBN10: 0670919578, ISBN13: 9780670919574, [publisher: Viking] Hardcover
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[Wallingford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2011]

ISBN10: 0670919578, ISBN13: 9780670919574, [publisher: Viking] Hardcover Bumped cover and dust jacket Second Hand, covers are considerably worn,edge of pages maybe sun damaged contents complete. No.1 BESTSELLERS - great prices, friendly customer service â€" all orders are dispatched next working day.
[Hereford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2011]

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First edition UK hardback, 201 Viking. The book is in fine condition, the dustjacket is in fine condition. Signed and inscribed to the title page by the author. "To Joe, Get well soon! Jeremy Paxman". Date: 2011. Viking ISBN 0670919578 9780670919574 [GB]

ISBN10: 0670919578, ISBN13: 9780670919574, [publisher: Viking] Hardcover Signed. Good condition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some edge wear and some small surface marks.
[Wallingford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2011]
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Viking, Date: 2011. Cloth. As New/As New. Larger, sturdy book, quality red cloth, very bright gilt lettering on spine, a colorful illustration of Englishman on elephant with retinue of cavalry and infantry native troops inside covers and adjacent end papers, 356 pages, some illustrations. DJ heavy paper with cream background, a photo of a lion with a crown on front, a colorful sticker with note on TV series on BBC, praise on back. DJ and book, both As New. 2011. Viking ISBN 0670919578 9780670919574 [US]

Viking 2011 Cloth As New in As New jacket Book Larger, sturdy book, quality red cloth, very bright gilt lettering on spine, a colorful illustration of Englishman on elephant with retinue of cavalry and infantry native troops inside covers and adjacent end papers, 356 pages, some illustrations. DJ heavy paper with cream background, a photo of a lion with a crown on front, a colorful sticker with note on TV series on BBC, praise on back. DJ and book, both As New.

London: Viking, 2011.. Exclusive signed edition. "Paxman brings brilliantly to life the tragedy and comedy of empire and reveals its profound and lasting effect on our nation and on ourselves." Pp.x/356, signed by the author to inner front endpaper (No.415 of a 1000), map of the British Empire in 1815 to prelimaries + 14 further black & white illustrations, colour illustrated endpapers. Red cloth, dustwrapper has 'signed by the author' sticker to front and rubbed mark to top front corner. VG/VG. London: Viking, 2011. ISBN 0670919578 9780670919574 [GB]

Viking, Date: 2011-10-06. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 2011. Viking ISBN 0670919578 9780670919574 [US]

ISBN10: 0670919578, ISBN13: 9780670919574, [publisher: Viking] Hardcover First Edition Clean unread copy. Wrapper in mylar covering. Some very faint foxing to top and bottom page edges. First printing.
[Ipswich, SUFFO, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2011]
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[Llandybie, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2011]

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[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2011]

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UK: Viking, Date: 2011. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 2011. Viking ISBN 0670919578 9780670919574 [GB]