Collision of Empires : Britain in Three World Wars, 1793-1945.
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Bloomsbury Publishing,
1993
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; PART ONE: THE GREAT WAR WITH FRANCE 1793-1815; Outline: 1793-1815; 1 Britain at War with France; I: Causes or Occasions; II: The Occasion of War; III: The Ideology of the War; IV: The Objectives of the War in the 1790s; V: The War against Napoleon; VI: Unofficial War Aims; 2 The Industrial Revolution at War; I: Assessing Britain's Wartime Economy; II: Population and Wealth: Some International Comparisons; III: The Evidence of Tax Statistics; IV: Industrialization and Boom; V: Mobilizing National Resources; VI: The Contribution of Technology.
- VII: The Contribution of Industrial ProductionVIII: International Comparisons: External Trade; IX: A Key Resource: Money; X: The Paper System; 3 Britain at War with Europe; I: The European Response to British Policy; II: The Case for Action against Britain; III: The Armed Neutrality of 1800; IV: Copenhagen, 1807; V: The Continental System; VI: From Isolation to Triumph; 4 Wellington's War; I: The Elusive Strategic Pattern; II: The Problem of Strategic Control; III: Command of the Sea; IV: The British Army: A Profession of Amateurs; V: Military-Naval Cooperation; VI: The Continental Commitment.
- VII: The Duke of WellingtonVIII: Wellington's System: Logistics and Repression; IX: Wellington's Logistics and the Logic of Success; 5 Venetian Oligarchy or Vacuum; I: The British Political System during the French Wars; II: Government and Party in the 1800s; III: The Structure of Public Opinion; IV: George III as National Symbol; V: Alternative Symbols; VI: The War and the Established Order; VII: The War and National Consensus; PART TWO: THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1914-1918; Outline: 1914-1918; 6 Britain's Entry into the First World War: A Study in Motives; I: Problems of Agenda.
- II: Views from the Other SideIII: Voices of the People; IV: The Standard Excuses: Belgium and the Entente; V: Parallel Cases: Turkey; VI: Parallel Cases: Italy; VII: Parallel Cases: Greece; VIII: Parallel Cases: Portugal; IX: Last Parallel Case: The United States; X: The British Case; XI: Psychological Crisis and the Decision for War; 7 The War against Militarism and Imperialism; I: The War against Prussianism; II: The New Eastern Question; III: The Cause of the Small Nationalities; IV: Democracy versus Autocracy; 8 Towards the Economics of Total War; I: The Scale of the War.
- II: The Failure of Forward PlanningIII: The Evolution of the British War Economy; IV: Britain and the Allies; V: Foreign Parallels: Russia and Austria-Hungary; VI: The German War Economy; 9 The War of the Generals; I: Some Images of the Great War; II: New Ideas and the Old Guard; III: Careers Open to Talent; IV: Left-Overs from Queen Victoria's Little Wars: Kitchener and Hamilton; V: Sir John French; VI: The New Professionalism; VII: Sir Douglas Haig; VIII: The New Warfare of the Industrial Era; IX: Learning the Lessons of War; X: The Military Mind Confronts Reality.
