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It documents the bravado, confidence, absent mindedness and cunning that led to the creation of the largest empire the world has ever seen. Before 1970 morris published under her assigned birth name, james, and is known particularly for the pax britannica trilogy, a history of the british empire, and for portraits of cities, notably oxford, venice, triest. The books were written and published over a tenyear period, beginning in 1968 with pax britannica. Pax britannica opinions folio society devotees librarything.
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