Anglo-American Relations and the Transmission of Ideas

Alan P. Dobson (1951-2022) was Honorary Professor at Swansea University; he held Chairs at Dundee University and at St Andrews (Honorary); and Fellowships at the Norwegian Nobel Institute (Senior Research Fellowship), Saint Bonaventure University (Lenna), and Baylor University (Fulbright).

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Introduction

Alan P. Dobson and Steve Marsh



Part I: Origins



Chapter 1. ‘This Golden Band’: A Heritage of Anglo-American Correspondence

Kristin Cook



Chapter 2. Burkean Peace Theory:  Radicalism, Conservatism and the Constitutional Heritage of Britain and the United States in the Age of Revolutions

Gavin Bailey



Part II: Ideological Philosophies



Chapter 3. Anglo-American Liberalism: The Tradition?

Alan Dobson



Chapter 4. Of Friendships and Fissures:  Anglo-American Conservatism

Reed Davis



Part III: Ideas and Institutions



Chapter 5. Rivalry and Reform: Abolition, Race and Anglo-American Relations in the Nineteenth Century

David Brown and Clive Webb



Chapter 6. The US Postcolonial e/Empire: The Case of the Missing Upper Case

David Ryan



Chapter 7. The Anglo-American Tradition in International Law

David Clinton



Part IV: Distinctive Features of An Anglo-American tradition



Chapter 8. The Anglosphere: Rise and Demise of an Anglo-American Policy Idea

David Haglund



Chapter 9. Reformulating Anglo-Saxon Identity: Intersections of Racism, National Identities, and Transatlantic Stereotypes in the Nineteenth Century

Robert Hendershot



Chapter 10. Anglo-American relations: a political tradition of special relationship(s)

Steve Marsh