Powerful industrial nation

Question

“There are advantages and disadvantages in being a powerful industrial nation.”
Discuss this statement with special reference to Great Britain.

Answer 1

The pride and the fall: the dream and the illusion of Britain as a great nation
National Review, Dec 18, 1987 by William R. Hawkins
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n24_v39/ai_6199639

UK brief history (from Norman conquest to 1990's)
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A0858458.html

The State, Power and the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1914
Douglas F. Dowd

http://www.dougdowd.org/NewFiles/statepwr.htm

Answer 2

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