A History of Britain III: The Fate of Empire 1776-2000: Fate of Empire; 1776-2001 Vol 3

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2002* Publisher: BBC Publications.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, silver title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £25.00. Minimal shelf wear to top edge and to head & tail of spine. One small tear (5mm), reinforced, and one chip to lower edge. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Black end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning. FINE.* Illustrations: Colour & b/w plates throughout with coloured maps.* Pages: 559 pp. text. xvii pp. Appendices & index at rear.* Description: The Fate of Empire brings Simon Schama's stylish and absorbing History of Britain to a stirring close. Of the volumes in the trilogy, The Fate of Empire is the most subjective, as Schama offers his own account of how the British shaped much of the modern world, and in turn were reshaped as a nation and a people by the experience of revolution, empire and war. Like all great narrative historians, Schama is above all else an original prose stylist, fully in command of the evocative language as well as the source materials of historical description. This is also history conceived on a truly grand, epic scale, taking the reader from the Age of Enlightenment and revolutions in political and economic life, right up to Britain's post-imperial twilight at the close of the last century.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. with only minor faults to the dust jacket reducing it to VG+*