CHAINS OF EMPIRE: ENGLISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS, MASONIC CABALISM, HISTORICAL CAUSALITY, AND IMPERIAL CLUBDOM.

RICH, Paul John.

ISBN 10: 0721208061 / ISBN 13: 9780721208060

Published by Regency Press, London & New York, 1991

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8vo. pp 266. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered gilt on spine. Illustrated in b/w throughout. ISBN: 0721208061 Fine in very good dust jacket, wih slight edgewear and slight sunning. Seller Inventory # C23545

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Title: CHAINS OF EMPIRE: ENGLISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS, ...

Publisher: Regency Press, London & New York

Publication Date: 1991

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

Chains of Empire: English Public Schools, Masonic Cabalism, Historical Causality, and Imperial Clubdom

From the Publisher:

The British Empire's and the English public schools' peculiar system of rituals and rewards had more in common than has been realised. In Chains of Empire, Paul Rich related this to, controversies about historical causality, morphic resonance, chaos, and the claims to influence of other bastions of the Imperial ethos such as the traditional gentlemen's clubs of St. James's. Rituals of Empire considers this symbolism in detail.

With the trilogy English Public Schools and Ritualistic Imperialism, Paul Rich has interjected himself into a lively controversy over the place of the English public schools in British history. Correlli Barnett blamed the English public schools for Britain's decline, while Cyril Connolly showed that the schoolboy syndrome was a part of British social history. Dr. Rich's Regency Press trilogy concerns more than the importance of the schools to Imperial rule: it points to new directions in historiography. In his first volume - Elixir of Empire: English Public Schools, Ritualism, Freemasonry, and Imperialism - he asserted that the schools espoused a ritualistic style that shaped the Empire. In the forthcoming Rituals of Empire, the public school symbolism reflected in the epipherma of the Empire is explored and Dr. Rich further substantiates his assertion that Freemasonry was involved with both British Imperialism and the public schools.