Transition of Power: Britain's Loss of Global Pre-eminence to the United States, 1930-1945

Abstract

Acknowledgments Prologue: power and purpose in Anglo-American relations, 1919-29 1. The end of Anglo-American naval rivalry, 1929-30 2. The undermining of war debts and reparations, 1929-32 3. Disarmament and security in Europe and the Far East, 1930-2 4. The unravelling of cooperation, 1932-3 5. Moving away from the United States, 1933-4 6. Britain, the United States, and the global balance of power, 1934-5 7. From Abyssinia to Brussels via London, Madrid and Peking, 1935-7 8. Appeasement, deterrence, and Anglo-American relations, 1938-9 9. Belligerent Britain and the neutral United States, 1939-41 Epilogue: 'A new order of things', 1941-5 Select bibliography Index.