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Unlikely Allies - Britain, America and the Victorian Origins of the Special Relationship (Hardcover)
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Unlikely Allies - Britain, America and the Victorian Origins of the Special Relationship (Hardcover)
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Unlikely Allies examines the history of the Anglo-American
diplomatic, political, economic and cultural relationship during
the long nineteenth century, from the Napoleonic Wars to the First
World War. When people speak of the special relationship between
the two English-speaking peoples on either side of the Atlantic,
they are talking of a phenomenon not much older than Britain's 1904
entente cordial with France. The very term 'English-speaking
peoples, ' for example, most probably has no earlier pedigree than
William Gladstone in the 1870s. For much of the nineteenth century,
Britain and the United States were imperial rivals in the scramble
for North America, and their often difficult relationship directly
reflected that reality. That these two nations became friends and
allies was never a foregone conclusion until surprisingly late in
the century and the rapprochement between them was only cemented by
the First World War. At the same time, the fact the United States
was a former colony and that they therefore shared a common
language meant that communication between the two nations differed
from that between Britain and its European rivals - something Otto
Von Bismarck called the most important fact of the nineteenth
century. Starting with the War of 1812, when the United States and
Britain found themselves an opposite sides, continuing through
prominent and obscure Britons' and Americans' views of each other,
the economic and migrant links between the nations, their difficult
diplomatic relationship, their later developing friendship and
increasing cultural and economic ties and concluding with the First
World War, Unlikely Allies describes and analyzes the often
turbulent andsurprising relationship between Britain and the United
States in the nineteenth century.
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