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Graham, Gerald S. TIDES OF EMPIRE: DISCURSIONS ON THE EXPANSION OF BRITAIN OVERSEAS.
McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1972.
108 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. "The early chapters deal with England's first colonizing experiments in the North Atlantic and Caribbean and the subsequent duel for empire with France, when Britain laid the foundation for a world-wide domin ion based on naval supremacy. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the Empire had become a huge commercial network of which India was the strategic centre and a chapter is devoted to the means whereby the long sailing track by way of the Cap e o f Good Hope was protected. The author goes on to show the extent to which the Royal Navy's Pax Britannica depended upon the maintenance of a European balance of power, then traces the slow erosion of Britain's command of the seas, under the im pa c t of scientific and technological advances, in the years before the First World War. The final chapter, introduced by a nostalgic glance at the Empire Day celebrations of the author's boyhood in rural Ontario and concluding with the retreat fr om Em pi re after the Second World War, represents Dr. Graham's hail-and-farewell to the imperial past..." Dust jacket has tiny chip at top of rear flap-fold, two tiny closed tears, minor edge wrinkling, light edgewear/rubbing. VG+/VG
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