British Empire and American Nation, from the Revolution to Pearl Harbor

The transatlantic history of the political and cultural relations of the British Empire at the height of its global power and its one-time colony from the early American national period to the Second World War alliance. Evolving British and American views of each other; Anglophilic Boston Brahmins and Anglophobic Irish immigrants; British tourists in America and American tourists in Britain; slavery and “race” in America and the Empire; trans-Atlantic Society in the era of the steamship; American heiresses and English milords; Tommies and Doughboys in the Great War; jazz and Hollywood in Twenties London; comparative first wave feminism.