Ross Terrill

Economic historian, democratic socialist, educator, and British labor party activist, R. H. Tawney touched many worlds. His life, too, spanned great distance and change. When he was born in Calcutta in 1880, Gladstone, Tennyson, and Queen Victoria were flourishing and the British Empire was...

Prologue Mid-parted black hair over a calm face, delicate hands, a gaze that bored into its target. Curiously flat-topped ears which gave stability to the head. Mole on the chin which was almost a relief from the broad pale face with no wrinkles. "A typical big Chinese," one Burmese who knew him...