The Age of Empire: Britain's Imperial Architecture

by Clive Aslet

I am an Empress ? and am sometimes called Empress of India. Why have I never officially assumed this title? I feel I ought to do so and wish to have preliminary enquiries made. Five years after discussing the matter with her private secretary, in 1877 Queen Victoria became Empress of India. This symbolic event was followed by the transformation of Britain into the seat of self-consciously imperial power. Britain s industrial and imperial might financed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781312257
• ISBN13: 9781781312254
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Aurum Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.7" x 11.2"