{"product_id":"culture-matters-anglo-american-relations-and-the-intangibles-of-specialness-9781526151421","title":"Culture Matters: Anglo-American Relations and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book examines how intangible aspects of international relations – including identity, memory, representation, and symbolic perception – have helped to shape the development and contribute to the endurance of the Anglo-American special relationship. Challenging traditional interpretations of US-UK relations and breaking new ground with fresh analyses of cultural symbols, discourses, and ideologies, this volume fills important gaps in our collective understanding of the special relationship’s operation and exposes new analytical spaces in which we can re-evaluate its strengths and weaknesses. Designed to breathe new life into old debates about the relationship’s purported specialness, this book offers a multidisciplinary exploration of literary representations, screen representations, political representations, representations in memory, and the influence of cultural connections and constructs which have historically animated Anglo-American interaction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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 \u003ci\u003eCulture Matters\u003c\/i\u003e are innovative in their exploration of the Anglo-American \"special relationship,\" which encompasses P. G. Wodehouse, Hollywood, \u003ci\u003eDownton Abbey\u003c\/i\u003e, and Beatlemania, among other subjects. Sam Edwards's 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 Finney's \"The Cultural Turn and Beyond in International History\" in \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eInternational History Review\u003c\/i\u003e (2018) provides an overview, and Elizabeth T. Kenney, Sirpa Salenius, and Whitney Womack Smith's \"Blurring Boundaries: Race and Transatlantic Identities in Culture and Society\" offers an example of its application in the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Transatlantic Studies\u003c\/i\u003e (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. '\u003cbr\u003eCHOICE Magazine\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction – Robert M. Hendershot and Steve Marsh \u003cbr\u003e1 Towards \u003ci\u003eSomething Fresh\u003c\/i\u003e? P.G. Wodehouse, transatlantic romances in fiction and the Anglo-American relationship – Finn Pollard\u003cbr\u003e2 America in ‘British’ history textbooks – Srdjan Vucetic \u003cbr\u003e3 Film follows the flag: cultural and economic relations between the British film industry and Hollywood – Jonathan Stubbs\u003cbr\u003e4 Debating \u003ci\u003eDownton\u003c\/i\u003e: Anglo-American realities and relations – Dana Cooper\u003cbr\u003e5 Anglo-American political culture – Alan P. Dobson\u003cbr\u003e6 Pageantry, legitimation, and special Anglo-American relations – Steve Marsh\u003cbr\u003e7 ‘A great Englishman’: George Washington and Anglo-American memory diplomacy, \u003ci\u003ec\u003c\/i\u003e. 1890–1925 – Sam Edwards \u003cbr\u003e8 Anglo-American narratives in public space: evaluating commemoration and generational transmission of the special relationship – Robert M. Hendershot\u003cbr\u003e9 Beatlemania and the cultural politics of 1960s America – Thomas C. Mills\u003cbr\u003e10 Culture and re-membering the alliance in Kosovo and Iraq: Anglo-American ironies under Clinton, Blair, and Bush – David Ryan\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: culture, ‘specialness’, and new directions – Robert M. Hendershot and Steve Marsh\u003cbr\u003eSelected bibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041016152407,"sku":"9781526151421","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526151421.jpg?v=1750948608","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/culture-matters-anglo-american-relations-and-the-intangibles-of-specialness-9781526151421","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}