God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World

Introduction -- Part 1: The Walrus and the carpenter -- With God on our side -- On the beach -- How they hate us -- Part 2: 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 3: 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 pyramid -- Part 4: What hath God wrought? -- The meaning of history -- War on history -- The golden meme -- Whig Babylon -- Part 5: The lessons of history -- The future of sea power -- Dancing with ghosts -- The diplomacy of civilizations -- The meaning of it all.