Pax Britannica

First published in 1968, this is the central volume of James Morris's history of the Victorian British Empire, a portrait of that empire at its late-nineteenth-century height, especially around Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Morris surveys the colonies, the navy, trade, missionary work, racial hierarchy, and ceremonial display from London to India, Africa, and the settler dominions. The book is arranged as a panorama of institutions and places rather than as a year-by-year chronicle. It sits between a volume on the empire's rise and one on its retreat. It is an interpretive survey of imperial power at a single moment.

Bound in blue buckram with a Victorian sovereign design in gold and blind. Pictorial colour endleaves. Black three-volume slipcase with wrap-around colour picture. 1. 2. 3.