God and gold: Britain, America, and the making of the modern world

Introduction

PART ONE: THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER: With God on our side

On the beach

How they hate us

PART TWO: THE DREAD AND ENVY OF THEM ALL: The protocols of the elders of Greenwich

French toast

The world was their oyster

The sinews of power

The playing fields of Eton

Goldilocks and the West

PART THREE: ANGLO-SAXON ATTITUDES: The wasps and the bees

The vicar and the dynamo

Doxy v. Doxy

The White queen

Called to the bar

The gyroscope and the pyramd

PART FOUR: WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT? : The meaning of history

War on history

The golden meme

Whig Babylon

PART FIVE: THE LESSONS OF HISTORY: The future of sea power

Dancing with ghosts

The diplomacy of civilizations

The meaning of it all.