Old World, New World : the story of Britain and America

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Title:

Author:

Burk, Kathleen.

ISBN:

9780316861663

Personal Author:

Burk, Kathleen.

Publication Information:

London : Little, Brown, 2007.

Physical Description:

xvi, 830 p., 24 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.

Contents:

Looking westwards -- Conquest and colonisation: 1607-1763 -- The war for American independence: 1763-1783 -- War and rumours of war: 1783-1872 -- Nineteenth-century travellers' tales -- Some elements of everyday life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- The turning of the tide: 1871-1945 -- Anglo-American marital relations: 1870-1945 -- The alliance since 1945.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Relations -- Great Britain.

Great Britain -- Relations -- United States.

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Summary

In OLD WORLD, NEW WORLD Kathleen Burk sets out to tell the story of Britain and America across four hundred years, from colonisation to Iraq.
There are two strands to this story. The first is the grand narrative that takes in the British colonisation of America and the American Revolutionary War, the American Civil War and the global conflicts of the twentieth century. This is the story of America's inevitable eclipse of its former colonial master as a Great Power, and of the enmities and sympathies, the confusions and understandings born along the way. The second strand is quieter but no less fascinating. Displaying a breathtaking command of her subject, Burk examines the relations between the two countries in many other spheres: economic, religious, cultural, social, even romantic.
These two strands taken together make Old World, New World an unprecedented achievement. No one could hope to write the definitive story of these two countries and their relationship, but few will come closer than Kathleen Burk has in this brilliant book.