The decline of Great Britain as a world power was the result of long-term economic change and two world wars. Except in a few areas, American authorities did not set out to supplant Britain: indeed until the Second World War they were hesitant about the use of power. But when they embraced it, a variety of factors ensured that it was Britain's place that was taken. This book offers an authoritative analysis of the stages of displacement and the complex feelings aroused by the process on both sides of the Atlantic. As such it describes a transfer of power which will surely be seen as one of the most fundamentally important events of the twentieth century.
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction Britain and the Assertion of American
Hegemony in the Western Hemisphere, 1895-1914
Resources and Responsibility: The First World War and the Peace Settlement
Finding a New Balance: Naval and Other Problems in the 1920s
Appeasement, Isolationism and the Approach of War in the 1930s
The Second World War and American Predominance
British Imperial Decline and American Super-Power, 1945-1956
Notes and References
Bibliography
Index.
