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28. C. A. Bayly, Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire, vol. 2, sec. 1, The New Cambridge History of India (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), pp. 4-10, 43, 56-58, 61, 63, 68; Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, pp. 29-31, 42-44, 188-89.
29. Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, pp. 45-47, 137-38, 144-45; James, Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India, pp. 207, 224-28. On the “fishing fleet” and the role of British women in India generally, see Pat Barr, The Memsahibs: The Women of Victorian England (London: Seeker & Warburg, 1976); Pran Neville, “Memsahibs and the Indian Marriage Bazaar,” The Tribune (India), Jan. 19, 2003.
30. My discussion of the Indian Mutiny draws significantly on Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, pp. 146-54; James, Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India, pp. 233-40, 251-52, 262, 286; Wolpert, A New History of India, pp. 226-37.
31. Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, pp. 191-203, 209, 213; Thomas R. Metcalf, Ideologies of the Raj, vol. 3, sec. 4, The New Cambridge History of India (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 8-9, 31, 39-40, 45, 48, 59-64, 114-22, 153-54, 199-200, 211.
32. See Omissi, The Sepoy and the Raj, pp. 87-90, 93-102.
33. John R. McClane, Indian Nationalism and the Early Congress (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977), p. 4. Naoroji's famous essay “The Benefits of British Rule in India” is reprinted in Dadabhai Naoroji, Essays, Speeches, Addresses and Writings (Bombay: Caxton Printing Works, 1887), pp. 131-36.
34. Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, pp. 196-203; James, Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India, pp. 349-51; Maria Misra, Business, Race, and Politics in British India c. 1850-1960 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999), pp. 41-42; Sumit Sarkar, Modern India, 1885-1947 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989), p. 22; Wolpert, A New History of India, pp. 242-43, 253-54.
35. Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, pp. 204-15, 3021; James, Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India, pp. 343, 352, 359-63, 43910, 456-58; Wolpert, A New History of India, pp. 248-51, 255, 265-66, 270-73, 289-91.
36. Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, pp. 326-28; James, Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India, pp. 459-63, 471-73; Misra, Business, Race, and Politics in British India, pp. 86, 123-24, 14517; Wolpert, A New History of India, pp. 297-302.
37. On the increasingly inclusive policies of the government of India, see Misra, Business, Race, and Politics in British India, pp. 55, 123-24, 142-47, 163, 168-69, and on the contrasting intolerance of the Anglo-Indian business community, see pp. 5, 7-11, 123-29, 210-14.
38. Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, pp. 112-13, 348; Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, pp. 367-68, 423-24.
39. Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, pp. 354-55.
PART THREE: THE FUTURE OF WORLD DOMINANCE
NINE: THE AMERICAN HYPERPOWER: TOLERANCE AND THE MICROCHIP
Epigraphs: Jefferson's quote can be found in Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, William Peden, ed. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1954), p. 159. The quote about the ENIAC computer is from Popular Mechanics, Mar. 1949, p. 258.
1. See Niall Ferguson, Colossus: The Price of America's Empire (New York: Penguin, 2004), p. 15.
2. Israel Zangwill, “The Melting Pot: Drama in Four Acts” (1908), in From the Ghetto to the Melting Pot: Israel Zangwill's Jewish Plays, Edna Nahshon, ed. (Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 2006), p. 288.
3. On the approach to religion taken by the “planting fathers,” see Frank Lambert, The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003), chaps. 1-3, especially pp. 75-77,