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Explores the Pilgrims Society and its role in pioneering Anglo-American public diplomacyLabelled by an Irish-American newspaper in 1906 as a 'nondescript aggregation of degenerate Americans, Britishers and Jews', the Pilgrims Society has long excited the imaginations of conspiracy theorists. Founded in London in 1902, this upper-class dining club acted to bring Britain and the USA closer together in political, diplomatic and cultural terms. Drawing on rich archival research, this book explores how this elite network whose members included J. P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie attempted to influence the Anglo-American relationship in the days before it became 'special'.A series of original case studies, focusing on the proceedings and wider diplomatic significance of lavish banquets held across the period at iconic New York and London hotels like the Waldorf-Astoria and the Savoy, provide unique insights into the Pilgrims Society's activities. Bowman challenges existing orthodoxies about the origins of public diplomacy and shows that it was only through the earlier work of semi-official organisations operating within a state-private nexus that greater governmental involvement in public diplomacy was legitimised.
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This series of original case studies, focusing on the proceedings and wider diplomatic significance of lavish banquets held across the period at iconic New York and London hotels like the Waldorf-Astoria and the Savoy, provides unique insights into the Pilgrims Society’s activities. Stephan Bowman challenges existing orthodoxies about the origins of public diplomacy and shows that it was only through the earlier work of semi-official organisations like the Pilgrims Society operating within a state-private nexus that greater governmental involvement in public diplomacy was legitimised.
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Portable City
Modern Glasgow’s Transatlantic Connections
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‘Portable City: Modern Glasgow’s Transatlantic Connections is a gem of a book. Like the modern city at the centre of its multi-faceted gaze, this wonderful volume offers us a highly original set of chapters on modern Glasgow's many different faces and facets. From an eclectic sense of expansive connections, new readings of Glasgow's reputation for grime, crime, and chronic ill-health, to thoughtful reinterpretations of its post-imperial and transatlantic aligned municipal, diasporic, and socio-cultural makeup, this new volume should be required reading for those wishing to understand Scotland's largest metropolis and, arguably, its first truly de-globalised city.’ – Professor Andrew Mackillop, University of GlasgowGlasgow is Scotland’s metropolis. It has long been the country’s largest city and the place where the challenges and changes wrought by modernity emerged most clearly. As this book shows, many of these challenges and changes were shaped by Glasgow’s status as a transatlantic city and by its historical entanglements with North America in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Drawing together contributions from new and established scholars on both sides of the Atlantic, this edited collection is about the tangible and intangible significance of transatlantic Glasgow as muse, as site of personal and collective memory, as imperial and industrial metropolis, as home for new immigrants, as bigoted slum, and as pioneering provider for the poor.Portable City combines traditional archival research with cultural approaches to provide the most original urban history of Glasgow in a generation and the first to offer a reappraisal of Bernard Aspinwall’s seminal 1984 book, Portable Utopia: Glasgow and the United States, 1820–1920.