A provocative reinterpretation of Civil War-era diplomacy
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"Phillip E. Myers's Caution and Cooperation places Anglo-American relations during the Civil War within the broader context of the whole nineteenth century, arguing convincingly for the lack of any real chance of British intervention on the side of the Confederacy and dating the end-of-the-century Anglo-American rapprochement back about three decades. Based on extensive research in the United States and Great Britain, this major...
A provocative reinterpretation of Civil War-era diplomacy
Click here to read a review from The British Scholar
How the period from 1865 to 1914 defined Anglo-American relations
Dissolving Tensions dismisses the long-held argument that a British-American rapprochement did not occur until the mid-1890s. Instead, author Phillip E. Myers shows that the rapprochement was distinct prior to the Civil War, became more distinctive during the conflict, and continued to take shape afterward.
Myers illustrates clearly that the Treaty of Washington of 1871 was a defining ingredient in resolving British-American-Canadian tensions and sent the rapprochement into a new...
How the period from 1865 to 1914 defined Anglo-American relations
Dissolving Tensions dismisses the long-held argu...