Adrian Buck’s Reviews > The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931 > Status Update

"In the half century before 1914, no country had experienced the conflicts produced by uneven and combined development more violently than America."

"...for a country with some degree of international credibility, a free floating exchange rate offered not disaster but the possibility of a creative reinvention of economic liberalism."

"More radical nationalists drew the conclusion that if nationalism and economic liberalism could not be combined, then the reassertion of national interest would have to be truly comprehensive - economic, as well as strategic and political."

Across the entire spectrum of British party politics, a latter day Wilsonian conception of the Anglo-American role in international affairs came to the fore."

"The reply from the dominions was, if anything, even more crushing."

"[Zinoviev] declared that the imperative to combine workers' revolution with peasant war was the 'most important discovery that Lenin made'.

"Hungary was in the unfortunate position of being both a new creation of the 1918 upheaval and, due to the privileged position it had enjoyed within the Habsburg Dual Monarchy, a defeated enemy of the Entente. It was thus perfectly placed for victimisation."

"Never before had an empire of Britain's stature so explicitly and consciously conceded superiority in such a crucial dimension of global power. It deserves to stand as an early twentieth-century precursor to Mikhail Gorbachev's retreat from the escalation of the Cold War in the 1980s." - and at the maximum extent of British Imperial power.

"Following in the footsteps of Canada, Australia and South Africa, one of the first demands of [the Indian National] Congress had been for tariff protection imports." Just to remind myself that a free trade zone among Commonwealth countries won't be magically waiting for the UK once it leaves the EU.

"A new order had been created in the Middle East, anchored on nominally independent Egypt and Iraq, but in fact based on a wilful disregard for political legitimacy, a lack that in turn rebounded on the moral foundation of the British Empire as a whole."