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    Notes

    1. Barbara Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before The War:

    1890-1914, p. 63.

    2. The source of the vast majority of the statistics in this chapter is Paul Kennedy's The

    Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.

    3. Paul Kennedy, "The (Relative) Decline of America," The Atlantic, August, 1987, p. 34.

    4. Actually, the Chinese and Indians perfected cotton cloth far before the British.  But the

    English figured out how to mass produce what the Asians had made by hand.

    5. Philip D. Curtin, Cross-Cultural Trade In World History, Cambridge University Press,

    Cambridge, 1984, p. 252.

    6. Rosalind Williams, "Reindustrialization Past and Present," Technology Review,

    November/December 1982, pp. 449-450.

    7. The first commercially operated railroad engine in America, The Stourbridge Lion, was

    made in Britain.  So was the steam engine that powered American industrial hero Robert

    Fulton's famous steamship the Clermont.  (Harry Edward Neal, From Spinning Wheel to

    Spacecraft: The Story of the Industrial Revolution, Julian Messner, Inc., New York, 1965,

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