Barnett, Correlli

Barnett, Correlli, The Collapse of British Power, London Eyre Methuen, 1972. 

Both economic decline and military technology feature in Correlli Barnett s four-volume account of the collapse ofBritish power between the First World War and the Suez crisis of 1956. Barnett used a concept of total strategy which encompassed all factors that he believed to be relevant to a nation s ability to preserve or extend its power education, literature, religion and national myths, for example, as well as armed forces and economic and technological resources. His work may... 

Correlli Barnett, The Collapse ofBritish Power (London Eyre Methuen, 1972) The Audit of War The Illusion and Reality of Britain as a Great Nation (London Macmillan, 1986) The Lost Victory British Dreams, British Realities 1945-1950 (London Macmillan, 1995) The Verdict of Peace Britain between her Yesterday and the Future (London Macmillan, 2001). 

David Edgerton, The prophet militant and industrial the peculiarities of Correlli Barnett , Twentieth Century British History 2 (1991), 360-79. The contributors to Bruce Collins and Keith Robbins (eds.), British Culture and Economic Decline (London Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990), deal critically with Barnett s thesis and also the work of Martin J. Wiener, English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit 1850-1980 (Cambridge University Press, 1981), pointing out that cultural differences between Britain and Germany were less significant than is often supposed. 

The prophet militant and industrial the peculiarities of Correlli Barnett , Twentieth Century British History, 2 (1991), 360-79. 

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