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

Watt, D. Cameron

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ISBN 10: 0521250226 ISBN 13: 9780521250221

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1984

Riassunto

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.

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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.

Contenuti:

1. Introduction; 2. 1900–1919; 3. 1919–1934; 4. 1934–1940; 5. 1940–1947; 6. 1947–1963; 7. 1963–1975; 8. Some tentative conclusions; 9. Presidential power and European cabinets in the conduct of international relations and diplomacy; a contrast; 10. Britain, America and Indo-China, 1942–1945; 11. American anti-colonialist policies and the end of the European colonial empires, 1941–1962.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0521250226
• ISBN 13: 9780521250221
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 314