Eugene Rasor's Bibliography

Entry: 11884

ID:	11884
Entry Text:	Ingram, Edward. Empire-Building and Empire-Builders: Twelve Studies. London: Cass, 1994, xvii, 231 pp. Iconoclastic, provocative: e.g., Britain ran roughshod over India, cultural ignorance, muddled diplomacy, petty intrigue, analysis of authors: Kipling, Forster, Orwell; not "blue-water," RN not 1st line of defence; "to exorcise Mahan's ghost from British history" & to dismiss Nelson's victories, the Nile, Copenhagen, Trafalgar, as irrelevant.

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11884

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Ingram, Edward. Empire-Building and Empire-Builders: Twelve Studies. London: Cass, 1994, xvii, 231 pp. Iconoclastic, provocative: e.g., Britain ran roughshod over India, cultural ignorance, muddled diplomacy, petty intrigue, analysis of authors: Kipling, Forster, Orwell; not "blue-water," RN not 1st line of defence; "to exorcise Mahan's ghost from British history" & to dismiss Nelson's victories, the Nile, Copenhagen, Trafalgar, as irrelevant.