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A history of British expansions overseas from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. 16pp b/w illus.
Synopsis
Uniquely complete account of the British Empire - Jan Morris' great Penguin trilogy PAX BRITANNICA only starts from 1837, rather than the 16th Century. A modern classic of narrative history, updated to include the 1997 handover of Hong Kong.