by Jan Morris · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571194667
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«Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress» is the historical essay by Jan Morris, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (560 pages, in English).
This historical work traces the height of the British Empire from Queen Victoria's accession to the throne in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Through episodes, portraits and vignettes, Jan Morris shows colonial expansion, its protagonists and the contradictions between evangelisation, business and conquest.
First volume of the Pax Britannica trilogy. Originally published in 1973, this English edition dates from 2003.
For readers of modern history and the British Empire, with an interest in the Victorian era and narrative non-fiction.
Catharine Jan Morris was a Welsh historian, author and travel writer. She was known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy (1968–1978), a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, including Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong and New York City. She published under her birth name until 1972, when she had gender reassignment surgery, transitioning from male to female.
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