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Introduction

LANGUAGE

Shaw’s Potato Declining to Conjugate A World of Squantos

LITERATURE Lashings of Pop Of Cows and Beef Half-chewed Latin A Wilderness of Monkeys

LAW The Rustics of England ‘No Free Man…’ A Handful of Feathers From the Same Mud

THE LAWMAKERS A Bettir Lawe No Remote Impassive Gaze Good King Frank A Most Strange and Wonderfull Herring Clean Hands, Dirty Money

WARFARE Invasion The Mighty Monmouth How to Be a Superpower Lacking Elan President Monroe’s Trousers

SCIENCE The First Scientist Ex Ungue Leonem The Last Scientist A Painful Admission

TECHNOLOGY Raising Water by Fire The Horse, the Car, the Pogo Stick Colossus

ECONOMY Whose Land? The Monster with 10,000 Eyes Wheat without Doong A Wave of Gadgets The Food of the People

EMPIRE And Like a Torrent Rush The Gates of Mercy The Reluctant Father Bombay Direct Soldiers and Slaves

LIFESTYLE The British Way of Death Yobs Clouds of Feculence Greeks Very Fine Linen

CONCLUSION Age and Liberty

Acknowledgements Sources Also by Harry Bingham Copyright About the Publisher