Stones of Empire
Subtitle: The Buildings of the Raj
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: July 27, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780192805966
First sentence: Like it or not, there was virtue in the Greek sense to the idea of empire, the assumption that one tribe, race, or nation might, by the brutal privilege of force majeure, legitimately lord it over another.