Anglo-American Relations and the Transmission of Ideas

Alan P. Dobson is honorary Professor at Swansea University, has held Chairs at Dundee University and at St Andrews (honorary) and fellowships at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, (Senior Research Fellowship) Saint Bonaventure University (Lenna) and Baylor University (Fulbright). He has written extensively on Anglo-American relations, international civil aviation, and the Cold War strategic embargo. His most recent book is A History of International Civil Aviation, London and New York, Routledge, 2017. He is currently working on a book about the US, Britain and Canada at the Chicago International Civil Aviation Conference 1944. In 2014, he won the Virginia Military Institute's Adam's Centre annual Cold War Essay prize. He founded the Transatlantic Studies Association in 2002 and chaired it until 2013 and is editor of both the Journal of Transatlantic Studies, which he founded in 2003, and the International History Review.Steve Marsh is Reader in international politics at Cardiff University, UK. His principal research interests lie in post-World War Two international politics with a particular focus on American foreign policy and Anglo-American relations. His latest book, (2020, co-edited with Robert M Hendershot), is Culture Matters. Anglo-American Relations and the Intangibles of Specialness.

“This volume is a distinctive, original and refreshing approach to the study of Anglo-American relations. Each essay is not just an outstanding contribution to a stellar book, but rather each one opens the door for future scholarship.” James Cooper, St. John University“Anglo-American Relations and the Transmission of Ideas is a tremendous collection of works focusing on the transatlantic transmission of ideas from correspondence to politics, from race and the construction of identities to law, and from the Anglosphere to empire.” Christopher Jespersen, University of North Georgia

• List of IllustrationsIntroductionAlan P. Dobson and Steve MarshPart I: OriginsChapter 1. 'This Golden Band': A Heritage of Anglo-American CorrespondenceKristin CookChapter 2. Burkean Peace Theory: Radicalism, Conservatism and the Constitutional Heritage of Britain and the United States in the Age of RevolutionsGavin BaileyPart II: Ideological PhilosophiesChapter 3. Anglo-American Liberalism: The Tradition?Alan DobsonChapter 4. Of Friendships and Fissures: Anglo-American ConservatismReed DavisPart III: Ideas and InstitutionsChapter 5. Rivalry and Reform: Abolition, Race and Anglo-American Relations in the Nineteenth CenturyDavid Brown and Clive WebbChapter 6. The US Postcolonial e/Empire: The Case of the Missing Upper CaseDavid RyanChapter 7. The Anglo-American Tradition in International LawDavid ClintonPart IV: Distinctive Features of An Anglo-American TraditionChapter 8. The Anglosphere: Rise and Demise of an Anglo-American Policy IdeaDavid HaglundChapter 9. Reformulating Anglo-Saxon Identity: Intersections of Racism, National Identities, and Transatlantic Stereotypes in the Nineteenth CenturyRobert HendershotChapter 10. Anglo-American relations: a political tradition of special relationship(s)Steve Marsh