Locating the Transatlantic in Twentieth-century Politics, Diplomacy and Culture

Gaynor Johnson

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781350227828
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350227842
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: History

Written in tribute to the work of Professor Alan Dobson, this collection of essays brings diplomacy and the Anglo-American relationship together, considering politics and foreign policy in tandem with cultural interactions. Uniquely placed to define exactly what transatlanticism is, and to explore the ways in which this idea has evolved in the last 150 years, this book asks to what extent can it be argued that there was a transatlantic world, how can it be defined and what was unique about it?

With contributions from leading scholars it offers an overview of the field as well as a comparative exploration of Anglo-American relations. From emotion in foreign policy decision making, to the RAF in the Vietnam War, as well as leader personalities and transatlantic reactions to women's rights in China, Locating the Transatlantic in Twentieth-century Politics, Diplomacy and Culture explores this 'special relationship' at many levels and from many angles. It further asks how this relationship has evolved over the years, and considers how it might survive in a globalized, post-industrial world.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Dedication Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 The Political Scientist as Historian: Reflections on the Link Between Culture, ‘Status Anxiety’ and the American Decision for war, April 1917
• Chapter 2 Sir Ronald Lindsay, The United States and the Outbreak of the Second World War
• Chapter 3 Quixotic Calling: Robert and Marion Merriman in the Spanish Civil War
• Chapter 4 John Bassett Moore and the Modest Virtues of International Law
• Chapter 5 Roca-Runciman Revisited: Anglo-American Relations and Argentina During the ‘Infamous Decade’, 1933–43
• Chapter 6 The Other Royal Dimension to the Transatlantic Relationship: fdr and the Dutch and Norwegian Royal Families During the Second World War
• Chapter 7 Re-Establishing the Honour of France in the air: Francophone Aviator Literary Figures During the Second World War
• Chapter 8 The British Royal Air Force: Operations over Laos Against the Ho Chi Minh Trail, 1962
• Chapter 9 Britain, the US Bicentennial, and the State Visit of Queen Elizabeth II to the United States, 1976
• Chapter 10 Reagan’s Incoherence: Nicaragua in the Reagan Doctrine and the end of the Cold War
• Chapter 11 North Georgia, the American South, and Transatlantic Culture and History
• Chapter 12 Personalities and Power Within the Special Relationship at the Cold War’s End
• Chapter 13 The Anglo-American Special Relationship: Past, Present, Future
• Chapter 14 UK–US Relations: Can Subnational Diplomacy save the ‘Special Relationship’?
• Index
• Imprint