Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Relations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Isosceles Triangle: Britain, the Dominions and the United States at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919

   • Margaret MacMillan

   Pages 1-24

3. Underpinning the Anglo-American Alliance: the Council on Foreign Relations and Britain between the Wars

   • Priscilla Roberts

   Pages 25-43

4. Eric Knight’s War: the Campaign for Anglo-American Understanding

   • F. M. Leventhal

   Pages 44-63

5. The Byrnes Treaty and the Origins of the Western Alliance, 1946–48

   • Danilo Ardia

   Pages 64-86

6. ‘But westward, look, the land is bright’: Labour’s Revisionists and the Imagining of America, c. 1945–64

   • Steven Fielding

   Pages 87-103

7. ‘The Number One Reason’: McCarthy, Eisenhower and the Decline of American Prestige in Britain, 1952–54

   • Jussi M. Hanhimaki

   Pages 104-123

8. A Very Considerable and Largely Unsung Success: Sir Roger Makins’ Washington Embassy, 1953–56

   • Saul Kelly

   Pages 124-142

9. Anglo-American Relations and Diverging Economic Defence Policies in the 1950s and 1960s

   • Alan P. Dobson

   Pages 143-165

10. Eisenhower, Eden and the Suez Crisis

    • Peter G. Boyle

    Pages 166-179

11. Lyndon Johnson, Harold Wilson and the Vietnam War: a Not So Special Relationship?

    • Sylvia A. Ellis

    Pages 180-204

12. Back Matter

    Pages 205-206

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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.

• 20th century
• America
• Britain
• event
• Great Britain
• triangle
• twentieth century
• understanding
• USA
• British Politics

'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

• St Peter’s College, Oxford, UK

  Jonathan Hollowell

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

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