Napoleon was wrong

Ian Gilmour

  • Capitalism, Culture and Decline in Britain 1750-1990 by W.D. Rubinstein
    Routledge, 182 pp, £25.00, April 1993, ISBN 0 415 03718 2
  • British Multinational Banking by Geoffrey Jones
    Oxford, 511 pp, £48.00, March 1993, ISBN 0 19 820273 3
  • Going for Broke: How Banking Mismanagement in the Eighties Lost Thousands of Billions of Pounds by Russell Taylor
    Simon and Schuster, 384 pp, £17.50, April 1993, ISBN 0 671 71128 8

Britain emerged from the war still unquestionably a great power, its Prime Ministers Churchill and Attlee considered the equals in negotiations for the post-war settlement, of America’s Presidents Roosevelt and Truman and Soviet dictator Stalin at the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences of 1945.

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[*] Quoted in P.G.M. Dickson’s magisterial 1967 study, The Financial Revolution in England: A Study of the Development of Public Credit 1688-1756 (Gregg Revivals, 648 pp., £55, 17 June, 0 7152 0010 7).

[†] The Industrial Revolution and British Society, edited by Patrick O’Brien and Roland Quinault (Cambridge, 312 pp., £27.95 and £9.95, 4 February, 0 521 43154 9); ‘not a traditional Festschrift but a “Textschrift” ’ for Max Hartwell.