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Succeeding John Bull: America in Britain's Place 1900-1975

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Succeeding John Bull: America in Britain's Place 1900-1975
Authors and Contributors      By (author) D. Cameron Watt
SeriesThe Wiles Lectures
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:316
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
ISBN/Barcode 9780521090803
ClassificationsDewey:327.73041
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 27 November 2008
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This book is based on the Wiles lectures for 1981 delivered at the Queen's University of Belfast in October 1981. It is not a history of Anglo-American relations in the century; its theme deals with how the United States of America came to replace Britain as the primary world and oceanic power confronting a grouping of land-based continental powers, the position Britain occupied throughout the nineteenth century. This theme is examined in the light of how the process of replacement was conceived and perceived by those groups which had the primary responsibility for the formulation and conduct of foreign relations in each of the two powers, Britain and America. The author, whose earlier study of 1965 of the British foreign-policy-making elites pioneered this approach in Britain, argues the existence and continuity over much of this century of similar groups in the United States.