A Private Empire

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Murdoch Books Australia
Publisher Place: Millers Point, Sydney
Publisher Year: 2010
Edition: First Edition

Description: 399 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. The only exception is a small crease to cover. This Explores England's Past Through The Eyes And Experience Of A Single Family. From The Battle Of Culloden In 1746 To An Inquiry Into A Racist Murder On London In 1998, From The Highlands Of Scotland To The Muddy Plantations Of Guyana, From Mughal India To Colonial Australia's Lawless Frontier.

Publishers Description: "A 'fascinating, lively and often moving book' - John M. MacKenzie, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth Historyp/p/ '...a remarkably impressive book ...The story he [Foster] tells is an extraordinary one; indeed if it were written in the fictional genre of the family saga you would think he was stretching credulity.' - Professor Stuart Macintyre launches A Private Empire at the National Library, Canberrap/p/ A Private Empire explores Britain's imperial past through the eyes and experiences of a single family. Historian Stephen Foster focuses on the Macphersons of Blairgowrie in Scotland, who recorded their private and public lives through five generations in an extraordinary archive of letters, documents and diaries. Elegantly presented with contemporary paintings and photographs, A Private Empire tells an intimate story of ambition and frustration, love and deception, wisdom and folly, pride and shame, passion and restraint, an attachment to place, an affection for kin-all set against the grand shifting background of Britain's imperial rule."

ISBN: 9781741965056