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The Fate of Empires (John Bagot Glubb)

The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

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Is There a Way Back for England?

Glubb asks whether any of thi cycle can be avoided by an empire, he is quite explicit, it's too late for england. The only question for glub was whether britain will remain strong, united and free, or become a nation of underlings and mendicants. Glubb would have been the first to admit that, were he granted a vision of 20 22. Every word of the nsages of empire's description certainly applies to our own empi, which suggests we are in big trouble. It's been almost exactly 200 ad 50 years for us. What's next for America? Then? Our empire is, of course, the global american empire gay

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