Succeeding John Bull: America in Britain's Place 1900-1975

by Donald Cameron Watt

Book Overview

This book is based on the Wiles lectures for 1981 delivered at the Queen's University of Belfast in October 1981. It is not a history of Anglo-American relations in the century; its theme deals with how the United States of America came to replace Britain as the primary world and oceanic power confronting a grouping of land-based continental powers, the position Britain occupied throughout the nineteenth century. This theme is examined in the light...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521090806
• ISBN13: 9780521090803
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"