Elixir of Empire: The English Public Schools, Ritualism, Freemasonry, and Imperialism

A companion volume, Chains of Empire: English Public Schools, Masonic Cabalism Historical Causality, and Imperial Clubdom, is the second in P. J. Rich's trilogy about schooling as a political force. Explored are the ways in which the history of education contributes to political science, and the problems facing historians and educators in linking an individual's education to behaviour. Also discussed are the implications of schools for general biography, the use of prosopographical analysis in determining schools' influence on culture, and the importance of recent educational research for social theory.

Paul John Rich was a Kinsmen Scholar at Tonbridge School and received his A.B. and Ed. M. from Harvard. He is an Honorary Research Fellow of The University of Western Australia, from which he received his PhD. Formerly a government adviser in the Arabian Gulf emirate of Qatar, Dr. Rich has authored or edited more than a dozen books.