Philip Mason Kolejność książek (chronologicznie)

A study of the characters and public careers of Englishmen who founded and developed British rule in India from 1600 to 1947

The idea of the gentleman is central to the English view of the world. It runs through and illuminates English history at least from the time of Chaucer's parfit gentil knight. For the Victorians, it provided a second religion which underpinned not only daily life, but the whole edifice of empire.