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Author Ellis, Sylvia.

Title Historical dictionary of Anglo-American relations / Sylvia Ellis
Published Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (313 pages)
Series Historical dictionaries of U.S. diplomacy ; 10
Historical dictionaries of U.S. diplomacy ; no. 10.
Contents Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Chronology; Introduction; The Dictionary; Appendix A List of U.S. Presidents and Secretaries of State; Appendix B List of British Prime Ministers and Foreign Secretaries; Appendix C List of U.S. Ambassadors to Great Britain; Appendix D List of British Ambassadors to the United States; Bibliography; About the Author
Summary Anglo-American relations have been a crucial factor in international relations for over two centuries. For most of that time dealings between Britain and the United States have remained co-operative, cordial, and supportive. In the beginning, however, relations were confrontational and discordant: the two nations waged war against each other twice--in the War of Independence and in the War of 1812--and have often disagreed over trade, finance, and foreign policy. This volume demonstrates the changing natureof Anglo-American relations and focuses, in particular, on the strengths and fragilities o
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Subject POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Diplomatic relations
SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain -- Dictionaries
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Dictionaries
Subject Great Britain
United States
Genre/Form dictionaries.
Dictionaries
Dictionaries.
Dictionnaires.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780810862975
0810862972
1282499661
9781282499669
9786612499661
6612499664