Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
3,594
result(s) for
"United States -- Relations -- Great Britain"
Sort by:
Gardening across the pond : Anglo-american exchanges from the settlers in Virginia to prairie gardens in England
For four hundred years there has been a special relationship between Britain and what is now the United States of America in many aspects of life, not least in gardening. From the early settlers taking their familiar English plants to the New World and early plant-hunters bringing back exciting new plants for English gardens to the twenty-first-century English infatuation with 'prairie gardening', ideas and plants have been crossing and re-crossing the Atlantic. In 'Gardening Across the Pond', Richard Bisgrove explores four centuries of transatlantic influences.
Book
In the Cause of Freedom
In this intellectual history, Minkah Makalani reveals how early-twentieth-century black radicals organized an international movement centered on ending racial oppression, colonialism, class exploitation, and global white supremacy. Focused primarily on two organizations, the Harlem-based African Blood Brotherhood, whose members became the first black Communists in the United States, and the International African Service Bureau, the major black anticolonial group in 1930s London,In the Cause of Freedomexamines the ideas, initiatives, and networks of interwar black radicals, as well as how they communicated across continents.Through a detailed analysis of black radical periodicals and extensive research in U.S., English, Dutch, and Soviet archives, Makalani explores how black radicals thought about race; understood the ties between African diasporic, Asian, and international workers' struggles; theorized the connections between colonialism and racial oppression; and confronted the limitations of international leftist organizations. Considering black radicals of Harlem and London together for the first time,In the Cause of Freedomreorients the story of blacks and Communism from questions of autonomy and the Kremlin's reach to show the emergence of radical black internationalism separate from, and independent of, the white Left.
eBook
The lion and the eagle : the interaction of the British and American empires 1783-1972
\"Throughout modern history, British and American rivalry has gone hand in hand with common interests. In this book Kathleen Burk brilliantly examines the different kinds of power the two empires have projected, and the means they have used to do it. What the two empires have shared is a mixture of pragmatism, ruthless commercial drive, a self-righteous foreign policy and plenty of naked aggression. These have been aimed against each other more than once; yet their underlying alliance against common enemies has been historically unique and a defining force throughout the twentieth century.0This is a global and epic history of the rise and fall of empires. It ranges from America's futile attempts to conquer Canada to her success in opening up Japan but rapid loss of leadership to Britain; from Britain's success in forcing open China to her loss of the Middle East to the US; and from the American conquest of the Philippines to her destruction of the British Empire. The Pax Americana replaced the Pax Britannica, but now the American world order is fading, threatening Britain's belief in her own world role.0 In our uncertain times, this is the history we need: authoritative, measured and compelling.\"--Jacket flap.
Book
Anglo-American Relations
This book provides an examination of contemporary Anglo-American relations. Sometimes controversially referred to as the Special Relationship, Anglo-American relations constitute arguably the most important bilateral relationship of modern times. However, in recent years, there have been frequent pronouncements that this relationship has lost its ‘specialness’.
This volume brings together experts from Britain, Europe and North America in a long-overdue examination of contemporary Anglo-American relations that paints a somewhat different picture. The discussion ranges widely, from an analysis of the special relationship of culture and friendship, to an examination of both traditional (e.g. nuclear relations) and more recent (e.g. environment) policies. Contemporary developments are discussed in the context of longer-term trends and contributing authors draw upon a range of different disciplines, including political science, diplomacy studies, business studies and economics. Coupled with a substantive introduction and conclusion, the result is an insightful and engaging portrayal of the complex Anglo-American relationship.
The book will be of great interest to students of US and UK foreign policy, diplomacy and international relations in general.
eBook
The Liberty to Take Fish
In The Liberty to Take Fish, Thomas Blake Earle offers
an incisive and nuanced history of the long American Revolution,
describing how aspirations to political freedom coupled with the
economic imperatives of commercial fishing roiled relations between
the young United States and powerful Great Britain.
The American Revolution left the United States with the \"liberty
to take fish\" from the waters of the North Atlantic. Indispensable
to the economic health of the new nation, the cod fisheries of the
Grand Banks, the Bay of Fundy, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence quickly
became symbols of American independence in an Atlantic world
dominated by Great Britain.
The fisheries issue was a near-constant concern in American
statecraft that impinged upon everything, from Anglo-American
relations, to the operation of American federalism, and even to the
nature of the marine environment. Earle explores the relationship
between the fisheries and the state through the Civil War era when
closer ties between the United States and Great Britain finally
surpassed the contentious interests of the fishing industry on the
nation's agenda.
The Liberty to Take Fish is a rich story that moves
from the staterooms of Washington and London to the decks of
fishing schooners and into the Atlantic itself to understand how
ordinary fishermen and the fish they pursued shaped and were, in
turn, shaped by those far-off political and economic forces. Earle
returns fishing to its once-central place in American history and
shows that the nation of the nineteenth century was indeed a
maritime one.
eBook
Grand improvisation : America confronts the British superpower,1945-1957
\"A bold new view of the U.S. rise to supremacy, and its collision with a British Empire that wouldn't step aside.\"--Provided by publisher.
Book
Special Relations
Special Relations reevaluates Anglo-American cultural exchange by exploring metropolitan London's culture and counterculture from the 1950s to the 1970s. It challenges a tendency in cultural studies to privilege local reception and attempts to restore the concept of Americanization in this critical era of mass tourism, professional exchange, and media globalization-while acknowledging an important degree of cultural hybridity and circularity. The study begins with the influence of American modernism in the built environment and in \"Swinging London\" generally, and then moves to its central project, the re-exploration of British counterculture-the anti-war movement, student rebellion, hippies, popular music, the alternative press, and the late Sixties triad of black, feminist, and gay liberationisms-as intimately tied to American experience and to American agents of cultural change.Special Relations retrieves these phenomena as more central and enduring in British metropolitan life than the current orthodoxy allows, and subjects to sharp critical scrutiny prevalent assertions of cultural \"authenticity\" in their British variants. Finally, the book looks at aspects of the turn against modernism and the counterculture in the 1970s.
eBook
The US \culture wars\ and the Anglo-American special relationship
\"This book discusses \"culture\" and the origins of the Anglo-American special relationship (the AASR). The bitter dispute between ethnic groups in the US from 1914-17--a period of time characterized as the \"culture wars\"--laid the groundwork both for US intervention in the European balance of power in 1917 and for the creation of what would eventually become a lasting Anglo-American alliance. Specifically, the vigorous assault on English \"civilization\" launched by two large ethnic groups in America (the Irish-Americans and the German-Americans) had the unintended effect of causing Americas demographic majority at the time (the English-descended Americans) to regard the prospect of an Anglo-American alliance in an entirely new manner. The author contemplates why the Anglo-American \"great rapprochement\" of 1898 failed to generate the desired \"Anglo-Saxon\" alliance in Britain, and in so doing features theoretically informed inquiries into debates surrounding both the origins of the war in 1914 and the origins of the American intervention decision nearly three years later\"--Back cover.
Book
America in the British imagination : 1945 to the present
This lively and engaging cultural history explores a series of interrelated questions about the U.S.'s influence on British society in the years following World War II. How was American culture disseminated into Britain? Why did large sections of British society embrace American customs? What picture did British citizens form of American society and politics? And how did the Cold War's end and the September 11 attacks affect that picture? Here, author John F. Lyons draws on cinema, literature, contemporary journalism, unpublished oral interviews, and a host of other sources to explore not only the ways in which American society impacted Britain, but the ways in which America's complex identity was refracted in the minds of the citizens of its closest ally.
eBook