In retrospect one can assert, “From 1870 to 1970 the history
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- The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers whole source · open book
In retrospect one can assert, “From 1870 to 1970 the history of Britain was one of steady and almost unbroken decline, economically, militarily and politically, relative to other nations, from the peak of prosperity and power which her industrial revolution had achieved for her in the middle of the nineteenth century”;115 but there is also a danger of exaggerating and anticipating the pace of that decline and of ignoring the country’s very considerable assets, even in the nonindustrial sphere. It was, in the first place, immensely wealthy, both at home and abroad, though the British Treasury felt itself under heavy pressure in the two decades before 1914 as the newer technology more than doubled the price of an individual battleship.
chapter: The Position of the Powers, 1885–1914
- The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood whole source · open book
perations mathematically certain through its power of correcting its possible errors?”♦ Ralph Waldo Emerson had met Babbage in London and declared in
chapter: (Lo, the Raptured Arithmetician)