Churchill and the Anglo-American Special Relationship
This book examines Winston Churchills role in the creation and development of the Anglo-American special relationship.
Drawing together world leading and emergent scholars, this volume offers a critical celebration of Churchills contribution to establishing the Anglo-American special relationship. Marking the seventieth anniversary of Churchills pronouncement in 1946 of that special relationship in his famous Iron Curtain speech, the book provides new insights into old debates by drawing upon approaches and disciplines that have hitherto been marginalised or neglected. The book foregrounds agency, culture, values, ideas and the construction and representation of special Anglo-American relations, past and present. The volume covers two main themes. First, it identifies key influences upon Churchill as he developed his political career, especially processes and patterns of Anglo-American convergence prior to and during World War Two. Second, it provides insights into how Churchill sought to promote a post-war Anglo-American special relationship, how he discursively constructed it and how he has remained central to that narrative to the present day. From this analysis emerges new understanding of the raw material from which Churchill conjured special UKUS relations and of how his conceptualisation of that special relationship has been shaped and re-shaped in the decades after 1946.
This book will be of much interest to students of Anglo-American relations, Cold War Studies, foreign policy, international history and IR in general.
Alan P. Dobson is an Honorary Professor at Swansea University, UK, and author of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Civil Aviation 19331945 (2011).
Steve Marsh is Reader in International Relations at Cardiff University, UK, and editor of Anglo-American Relations: Contemporary Perspectives (2013, with Alan P. Dobson).
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Churchill and the Anglo-American Special Relationship
Edited by Alan P. Dobson and Steve Marsh
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Names: Dobson, Alan P. | Marsh, Steve.
Title: Churchill and the Anglo-American special relationship / edited by Alan P. Dobson and Steve Marsh.
Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. | Series: Cold War history | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016030723| ISBN 9781138188143 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315642673 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Great BritainForeign relationsUnited States. | United StatesForeign relationsGreat Britain. | Churchill, Winston, 18741965Influence. | Great BritainForeign relations19361945. | BritainForeign relations19451964. | United StatesForeign relations19331945. | United StatesForeign relations19451989. | Cold War.
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Alan P. Dobson is an honorary Professor, Swansea University. He has written extensively on Anglo-American relations, civil aviation, and the Cold War. His most recent monograph is Franklin D. Roosevelt and Civil Aviation 19331945 (Palgrave 2011). He was awarded the John A. Adams Cold War essay prize, Virginia Military Institute, in 2014 and has held fellowships at St Bonaventure and Baylor University (Fulbright Scholar), and the Nobel Institute Oslo. He is editor of the Journal of Transatlantic Studies and the International History Review.
Sam Edwards is Senior Lecturer in American History at Manchester Metropolitan University. His research explores transatlantic relations, commemoration and memory, and the cultural history of war. He is co-editor of
