For most of the twentieth century, historians have thought that British naval policy was driven by the Anglo-German arms race. After examining a prodigious quantity of primary sources, Nicholas A. Lam
Lambert (Royal United Services Institute, UK) states in his introduction: "This book offers a radical reinterpretation of the nature and significance of the relationship between economics and sea powe
Technological optimism, even utopianism, was widespread at midcentury; in Britain,Harold Wilson in 1963 promised a new nation "forged from the white heat of the technologicalrevolution." In this heady
