First and Unique: Britain's Industrial Revolution, Part I

try to distance themselves) from manufacturing and instead sought out a lifestyle of the landed gentry squire. Mathematics and engineering were still not subjects at Oxford or Cambridge, while Greek and Latin were, wrong priorities for an increasingly industrialized economy. One disastrous result of this shift (one of many) was the failure to innovate when other countries such as Germany and the United States began to first catch up economically and then in some ways overcome British economic hegemony in the years before World War I. In the end this failure resulted, Wiener convincingly concludes, in the prolonged stagnation and economic decline of Britain in the last century.

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