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Old World, New World - The Story of Britain and America (Paperback)
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Old World, New World - The Story of Britain and America (Paperback)
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Our close bond with Great Britain seems inevitable, given our
shared language and heritage. But as distinguished historian
Kathleen Burk shows in this groundbreaking history, the close
international relationship was forged only recently, preceded by
several centuries of hostility and conflict that began soon after
the first English colony was established on the newly discovered
continent. Burk, a fourth-generation Californian and a professor of
history in London, draws on her unrivaled knowledge of both
countries to explore the totality of the relationship--the
politics, economics, culture, and society--that both connected the
two peoples and drove them apart. She tells the story from each
side, beginning with the English exploration of the New World and
taking us up to the present alliance in Iraq. She reveals the real
motivations for settling North America, the factors that led to
Britain's losing the colonies, and the reasons why hawks in
Congress took the two countries to war again in 1812. Indeed, war
between Britain and the United States loomed again later in the
nineteenth century, and it took common enemies to bring them
together in the twentieth. But the anchor of the alliance was
human. Nineteenth-century British writers celebrated American
energy while scorning its vulgarity; American writers appreciated
the British sense of tradition while criticizing its aristocracy.
Yet social reformers on both sides of the ocean worked together to
end slavery and achieve female suffrage. Since 1945, the world has
watched and wondered at the close bonds of the leaders--Kennedy and
Macmillan, Reagan and Thatcher, and Bush and Blair. The first joint
history of its kind, Old World, New Worldis a vivid, absorbing, and
surprising story of one of the longest international love-hate
relationships in modern history.
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