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MORRIS, J.: Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged)

MORRIS, J.: Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged)

Roy McMillan

语种：英语
发行时间：2011-01-01
类型：录音室专辑

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Disc1

Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged)
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Introduction by Jan Morris
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03:34
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Part 1 The Sentiment of Empire 1837–1850
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07:00
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Far away Lord Auckland laboured…
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05:44
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Though slavery had been so old an imperial practice…
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05:25
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At first the Royal Navy tried to end the traffic…
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04:54
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So the first monuments of Queen Victoria's empire…
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06:05
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The Boers of the Great Trek – The Voortrekkers…
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06:01
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Retief was courteously received.
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07:48
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They built the church they had vowed…
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03:34
10

On the dirt road west of Mirzapur on the Ganges…
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06:01
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By western criminal standards these were motiveless crimes.
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06:13
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The first big Victorian war was precipitated…
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07:18
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The story of the war against the Afghans is full of omens…
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04:54
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At this climactic moment there arrived upon the scene…
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Roy McMillan

04:18

Disc2

Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged)
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Even now the Afghans expected reprisals…
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04:33
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By the end of the fifth day the last of the sepoys were dead…
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04:34
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On the other side of the world, on a summer day…
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06:41
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By the 1840s, nevertheless, there was pressure…
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06:42
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Some of the white settlers were already quite urbane.
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04:48
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A very different kind of society was established…
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05:29
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Such were two of the Empire's white settlement colonies.
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04:02
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In the county of Cork in south-west Ireland…
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07:07
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In the early 1840s, before the Famine…
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07:21
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In the middle of it all O'Connell, aged and demoralized, died…
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04:13
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Never again would the British shirk their imperial duties…
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06:33
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Next the British power, with some false starts…
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06:04
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All this in his thirties, at a time when the British services…
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06:34
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Part 2 The Growing Conviction 1850–1870
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02:45

Disc3

Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged)
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The Crystal Palace was made entirely of glass and iron…
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05:42
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Many of the Empire's grandest monuments were railway works.
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05:33
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Here is another memorable product of the imperial technology.
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04:58
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High above the Jumna River at Delhi…
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06:21
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But it was not a national revolution at all…
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06:11
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It was Sunday next day, May 10, 1857…
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05:56
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This pathetic action was to enter the mythology of the Empire.
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06:34
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The other sacramental episode of the Indian Mutiny…
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06:57
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At the end of October word filtered in…
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05:13
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In 1861, work began on the construction of a new headquarters…
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07:26
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All over the Empire this trend towards the aloof…
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05:08
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On September 16, 1864, the spa of Bath in Somerset awoke…
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06:18
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The compelling fascination of the Nile had exerted itself…
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05:01

Disc4

Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged)
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But Speke went back with a very different companion…
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06:27
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Livingstone, it seemed, did not in the least wish to be rescued.
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06:53
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The conviction of Empire was increasingly reinforced…
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06:28
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When the Anglican Bishop of Jamaica visited his flock…
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06:03
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In Cape Town Bishop Robert Grey…
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05:21
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These imperial disputes were comprehensible only to the elect…
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03:50
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The British were now exporting to their dominions…
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06:26
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The Metis were not forewarned of these developments.
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06:34
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Trade was resumed.
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05:01
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Wolseley was to talk about it for the rest of his life…
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05:50
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Still the British as a nation were not conscious expansionists.
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05:06
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Until recently the Fijians had been polygamous cannibals.
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04:10
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Part 3 The Imperial Obsession 1870–1897
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05:13
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Disraeli adopted the imperial cause deliberately.
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04:22

Disc5

Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged)
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Disraeli did not of course invent imperialism…
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06:10
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The profit motive, too, had subtly shifted its emphasis.
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03:37
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In Africa stood Ashanti-land.
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06:34
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It was only in the 1870s…
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05:30
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In the end the Ashanti broke…
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04:54
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Behind the Army stood the Royal Navy.
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06:00
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Disraeli, who became Prime Minister for the second time…
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04:26
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The South African scene had changed…
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07:16
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The fascination of the Zulu War…
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05:47
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Eleven heroes of Rorke's Drift were awarded the Victoria Cross…
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03:05
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Except for the quiescent Orange Free State…
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07:37
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Empire was race.
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06:15
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Authority could not sanction the extermination of the natives…
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07:00

Disc6

Heaven's Command - An Imperial Progress (Abridged)
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Through all these years Ireland festered.
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06:36
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Nobody was more shut off from the life of the country…
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05:51
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This led to the most spectacular of all Parnell's…
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05:12
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But in the same month as the presentation…
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05:37
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The British repeatedly claimed…
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06:03
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On February 18, 1884, he reached Khartoum.
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05:21
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'Who,' asked Ruskin once…
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04:48
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In the last week of December 1895…
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06:15
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Empires were fashionable everywhere now.
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05:21
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Rhodes was an enigma…
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06:54
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The failure of the Jameson Raid was an omen…
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06:10

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