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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Part 1 - Language
Chapter 1 - Shaw’s Potato
Chapter 2 - Declining to Conjugate
Chapter 3 - A World of Squantos
Part 2 - Literature
Chapter 4 - Lashings of Pop
Chapter 5 - Of Cows and Beef
Chapter 6 - Half-chewed Latin
Chapter 7 - A Wilderness of Monkeys
Part 3 - Law
Chapter 8 - The Rustics of England
Chapter 9 - ‘No Free Man…’
Chapter 10 - A Handful of Feathers
Chapter 11 - From the Same Mud
Part 4 - The Lawmakers
Chapter 12 - A Bettir Lawe
Chapter 13 - No Remote Impassive Gaze
Chapter 14 - Good King Frank
Chapter 15 - A Most Strange and Wonderfull Herring
Chapter 16 - Clean Hands, Dirty Money
Part 5 - Warfare
Chapter 17 - Invasion
Chapter 18 - The Mighty Monmouth
Chapter 19 - How to Be a Superpower
Chapter 20 - Lacking Elan
Chapter 21 - President Monroe’s Trousers
Part 6 - Science
Chapter 22 - The First Scientist
Chapter 23 - Ex Ungue Leonem
Chapter 24 - The Last Scientist
Chapter 25 - A Painful Admission
Part 7 - Technology
Chapter 26 - Raising Water by Fire
Chapter 27 - The Horse, the Car, the Pogo Stick
Chapter 28 - Colossus
Part 8 - Economy
Chapter 29 - Whose Land?
Chapter 30 - The Monster with 10,000 Eyes
Chapter 31 - Wheat without Doong
Chapter 32 - A Wave of Gadgets
Chapter 33 - The Food of the People
Part 9 - Empire
Chapter 34 - And Like a Torrent Rush
Chapter 35 - The Gates of Mercy
Chapter 36 - The Reluctant Father
Chapter 37 - Bombay Direct
Chapter 38 - Soldiers and Slaves
Part 10 - Lifestyle
Chapter 39 - The British Way of Death
Chapter 40 - Yobs
Chapter 41 - Clouds of Feculence
Chapter 42 - Greeks
Chapter 43 - Very Fine Linen
Part 11 - Conclusion
Chapter 44 - Age and Liberty
Acknowledgements
Sources
Also by Harry Bingham
Copyright
About the Publisher
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