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Rule, Britannia?(Book review)

The National Interest

| May 01, 2008 | Gilbert, Mark | COPYRIGHT 2008 The National Interest, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Walter Russell Mead, God and Gold: Britain,

America, and the Making of the Modern

World (New York: Knopf, 2007), 464 pp.,

$27.95.

Brendan Simms, Three Victories and a Defeat:

The Rise and Fall of the First British

Empire, 1714-1783 (London: Allen Lane,

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