Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Relations

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Isosceles Triangle: Britain, the Dominions and the United States at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919....Pages 1-24
Underpinning the Anglo-American Alliance: the Council on Foreign Relations and Britain between the Wars....Pages 25-43
Eric Knight’s War: the Campaign for Anglo-American Understanding....Pages 44-63
The Byrnes Treaty and the Origins of the Western Alliance, 1946–48....Pages 64-86
‘But westward, look, the land is bright’: Labour’s Revisionists and the Imagining of America, c. 1945–64....Pages 87-103
‘The Number One Reason’: McCarthy, Eisenhower and the Decline of American Prestige in Britain, 1952–54....Pages 104-123
A Very Considerable and Largely Unsung Success: Sir Roger Makins’ Washington Embassy, 1953–56....Pages 124-142
Anglo-American Relations and Diverging Economic Defence Policies in the 1950s and 1960s....Pages 143-165
Eisenhower, Eden and the Suez Crisis....Pages 166-179
Lyndon Johnson, Harold Wilson and the Vietnam War: a Not So Special Relationship?....Pages 180-204
Back Matter....Pages 205-206