Viceroys - Christopher Lee
Category: History
Tags: History, Political
Viceroys By: Christopher Lee Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins Unabridged Audiobook Release date: 30-08-2018 Language: English Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group, Viceroys is the story of the British aristocracy sent to govern India during the reigns of five British monarchs. It is also the story of how the modern British identity was established., British history from the Hundred Years War onwards gives an impression of how the British were seen. It is a misconception or, more kindly, a British view. Until the 19th century the British did not have an identity readily recognised throughout the world. Even the Elizabethans were never established other than as great individuals. From 1815, an image of Britain as the first superpower was built that would make do until even the 21st century., Direct rule in the name of a long-lived queen and the consequential superlatives of style and theatre of conquest had the whole world believing that it knew the secret of that Br
