Culture Matters: Anglo-American Relations and the Intangibles of 'Specialness' b

Description: Culture Matters by Robert Hendershot, Steve Marsh This book examines the ways cultural connections, constructs, and representations have impacted the history of the Anglo-American special relationship. Its multidisciplinary approach illuminates the mosaic of cultural connections that have simultaneously influenced elite decision-making and sculpted popular attitudes toward and expectations of the special relationship. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book examines the ways cultural connections, constructs, and representations have impacted the history of the Anglo-American special relationship. Its multidisciplinary approach illuminates the mosaic of cultural connections that have simultaneously influenced elite decision-making and sculpted popular attitudes toward and expectations of the special relationship. -- . Flap This book examines how intangible aspects of international relations - including identity, memory, representation, and symbolic perception - have helped to stimulate and sustain the Anglo-American special relationship. Drawing together world-leading and emergent scholars, this volume breaks new ground by applying the theories and methodologies of the cultural turn in diplomatic history to the study of Anglo-American relations. It contends that matters of culture have been far more important to the special relationship than previously allowed in a field hitherto dominated by interest-based interpretations of American and British foreign policies. Fresh analyses of cultural symbols, discourses, and ideologies fill important gaps in our collective understanding of the special relationships operation and expose new analytical spaces in which we can re-evaluate its strengths and weaknesses. Designed to breathe new life into old debates about the relationships purported specialness, this book offers a multidisciplinary exploration of literary representations, screen representations, political representations, representations in memory, and the roles of cultural connections and constructs which have historically influenced elite decision-making and sculpted popular attitudes toward and expectations of the special relationship. Author Biography Robert M. Hendershot is Professor of History in the Department of Social Sciences at Grand Rapids Community College, MichiganSteve Marsh is Reader in International Relations at Cardiff University Table of Contents Introduction – Robert M. Hendershot and Steve Marsh 1 Towards Something Fresh? P.G. Wodehouse, transatlantic romances in fiction and the Anglo-American relationship – Finn Pollard2 America in British history textbooks – Srdjan Vucetic 3 Film follows the flag: cultural and economic relations between the British film industry and Hollywood – Jonathan Stubbs4 Debating Downton: Anglo-American realities and relations – Dana Cooper5 Anglo-American political culture – Alan P. Dobson6 Pageantry, legitimation, and special Anglo-American relations – Steve Marsh7 A great Englishman: George Washington and Anglo-American memory diplomacy, c. 1890–1925 – Sam Edwards 8 Anglo-American narratives in public space: evaluating commemoration and generational transmission of the special relationship – Robert M. Hendershot9 Beatlemania and the cultural politics of 1960s America – Thomas C. Mills10 Culture and re-membering the alliance in Kosovo and Iraq: Anglo-American ironies under Clinton, Blair, and Bush – David RyanConclusion: culture, specialness, and new directions – Robert M. Hendershot and Steve MarshSelected bibliographyIndex Review Since the 1960s, the cultural turn has transformed the academic study of politics and economics. Perhaps because it often focuses on the poor and the powerless, the cultural turn has been less prominent in diplomatic history. Consequently, the 11 authors whose essays make up Culture Matters are innovative in their exploration of the Anglo-American "special relationship," which encompasses P. G. Wodehouse, Hollywood, Downton Abbey, and Beatlemania, among other subjects. Sam Edwardss fascinating chapter looks at George Washington in "A Great Englishman: George Washington and Anglo-American Memory Diplomacy, c. 1890–1925." Throughout the text, identity, memory, and symbolic representation crowd out traditional topics. For more on the cultural-turn context, Pedro Aires Oliveira, Bruno Cardoso Reis, and Patrick Finneys "The Cultural Turn and Beyond in International History" in The International History Review (2018) provides an overview, and Elizabeth T. Kenney, Sirpa Salenius, and Whitney Womack Smiths "Blurring Boundaries: Race and Transatlantic Identities in Culture and Society" offers an example of its application in the Journal of Transatlantic Studies (2016). The impressive volume under review shows how "culture matters to the vitality of the Anglo-American special relationship and to our understanding of it" (p. 271). Aimed at enlarging what has been a marginal field of study, it includes an extensive bibliography. CHOICE Magazine -- . Long Description This book examines the ways cultural connections, constructs, and representations have impacted the history of the Anglo-American special relationship. Its multidisciplinary approach illuminates the mosaic of cultural connections that have simultaneously influenced elite decision-making and sculpted popular attitudes toward and expectations of the special relationship. -- . Review Quote Since the 1960s, the cultural turn has transformed the academic study of politics and economics. Perhaps because it often focuses on the poor and the powerless, the cultural turn has been less prominent in diplomatic history. Consequently, the 11 authors whose essays make up Culture Matters are innovative in their exploration of the Anglo-American "special relationship," which encompasses P. G. Wodehouse, Hollywood, Downton Abbey, and Beatlemania, among other subjects. Sam Edwardss fascinating chapter looks at George Washington in "A Great Englishman: George Washington and Anglo-American Memory Diplomacy, c. 1890-1925." Throughout the text, identity, memory, and symbolic representation crowd out traditional topics. For more on the cultural-turn context, Pedro Aires Oliveira, Bruno Cardoso Reis, and Patrick Finneys "The Cultural Turn and Beyond in International History" in The International History Review (2018) provides an overview, and Elizabeth T. Kenney, Sirpa Salenius, and Whitney Womack Smiths "Blurring Boundaries: Race and Transatlantic Identities in Culture and Society" offers an example of its application in the Journal of Transatlantic Studies (2016). The impressive volume under review shows how "culture matters to the vitality of the Anglo-American special relationship and to our understanding of it" (p. 271). Aimed at enlarging what has been a marginal field of study, it includes an extensive bibliography. CHOICE Magazine Details ISBN1526151421 Publisher Manchester University Press Year 2020 ISBN-10 1526151421 ISBN-13 9781526151421 Format Hardcover Short Title Culture Matters Language English Pages 312 DEWEY 327.41073 Publication Date 2020-10-07 Author Steve Marsh UK Release Date 2020-10-07 Imprint Manchester University Press Place of Publication Manchester Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations 4 black & white illustrations NZ Release Date 2020-10-07 Subtitle Anglo-American Relations and the Intangibles of Specialness Edited by Steve Marsh Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2020-10-06 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:144709009;

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