New research by several leading political historians creates a detailed and diverse study of Anglo-American relations in the twentieth century. Declassified documents provide unique insight into the personal relationships between Eisenhower and Eden, and Lyndon Johnson and Harold Wilson. This volume offers a breadth of scholarship drawn from three continents and examines the diplomatic negotiations, powerful personalities and political considerations at the heart of British-American affairs.
New research by several leading political historians creates a detailed and diverse study of Anglo-American relations in the twentieth century. Declassified documents provide unique insight into the personal relationships between Eisenhower and Eden, and Lyndon Johnson and Harold Wilson. This volume offers a breadth of scholarship drawn from three continents and examines the diplomatic negotiations, powerful personalities and political considerations at the heart of British-American affairs.
DANILO ARDIA Department of International Studies, University of Padova PETER BOYLE Department of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham KATHLEEN BURK Professor of History, University College London PETER CATTERALL Director, Institute of Contemporary British History, London ALAN DOBSON Department of Politics, University of Wales, Swansea SYLVIA ELLIS Department of History, University of Sunderland STEVEN FIELDING Department of Politics and Contemporary History, Salford University JUSSI HANHIMAKI International History Department, London School of Economics and Political Science SAUL KELLY History Faculty, University of Westminster FRED LEVENTHAL Professor of History, Boston University MARGARET MACMILLAN Professor of History, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto PRISCILLA ROBERTS Director of the Centre of American Studies, University of Hong Kong
Inhaltsangabe
General Editor's Preface; P.Catterall Foreword; K.Burk Notes on the Contributors Introduction; J.Hollowell Isoceles Triangle: Britain, the United States, and the Dominions, 1900-26; M.MacMillan The Council on Foreign Relations and Anglo-American Relations between the World Wars; P.Roberts Eric Knight's War: The Campaign for Anglo-American Understanding; F.Leventhal The Byrnes Treaty and the Origins of the Western Alliance, 1946-48; D.Ardia But Westward, Look, the Land is Bright: Labour's Revisionists and the Imagining of America, 1945-60; S.Fielding British Reactions to McCarthyism, 1950-54; J.Hanhimaki A Very Considerable and Largely Unsung Success: Sir Roger Makin's Washington Embassy, 1953-56; S.Kelly Anglo-American Relations and Diverging Economic Defence Policies in the 1950s and 1950s; A.Dobson Eisenhower, Eden, and the Suez Crisis; P.Boyle Lyndon Johnson and Harold Wilson; A Not so 'Special Relationship'? S.Ellis Index
General Editor's Preface; P.Catterall Foreword; K.Burk Notes on the Contributors Introduction; J.Hollowell Isoceles Triangle: Britain, the United States, and the Dominions, 1900-26; M.MacMillan The Council on Foreign Relations and Anglo-American Relations between the World Wars; P.Roberts Eric Knight's War: The Campaign for Anglo-American Understanding; F.Leventhal The Byrnes Treaty and the Origins of the Western Alliance, 1946-48; D.Ardia But Westward, Look, the Land is Bright: Labour's Revisionists and the Imagining of America, 1945-60; S.Fielding British Reactions to McCarthyism, 1950-54; J.Hanhimaki A Very Considerable and Largely Unsung Success: Sir Roger Makin's Washington Embassy, 1953-56; S.Kelly Anglo-American Relations and Diverging Economic Defence Policies in the 1950s and 1950s; A.Dobson Eisenhower, Eden, and the Suez Crisis; P.Boyle Lyndon Johnson and Harold Wilson; A Not so 'Special Relationship'? S.Ellis Index
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'Saul Kelly's analysis of the embassy of Sir Roger Makins at Washington in 1953-6 is an exemplary study.' - Michael F. Hopkins, Liverpool Hope University
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