The weary titan : Britain and the experience of relative decline, 1895-1905
Presents a study of a controversy in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. This book explains how England's rulers failed to understand and respond to the initial evidence of erosion in their country's industrial, financial, naval, and military power.
Print Book, Undefined, 2010
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.; Woodstock, 2010
Military history
xvii, 343 p. ; 24 cm.
9780691148007, 0691148007
1249790282
List of Tables and Maps xi Preface xiii List of Abbreviations xvii Chapter One: International Relations Theory and the Assessment of National Power 3 Chapter Two: Economic Power: The Loss of Industrial PReeminence 21 Chapter Three: Financial Power: The Growing Burdens of Empire 89 Chapter Four: Sea Power: The Surrender of Worldwide Supremacy 135 Chapter Five: Land Power: The Dilemma of Indian Defense 209 Chapter Six: Change, Assessment, and Adaption 279 Chapter Seven: Britain and the Experience of Relative Decline 292 Afterword to the 2010 Edition 305 Bibliography 319 Index 337
Formerly CIP
Originally published: 1988