The US "Culture Wars" and the Anglo-American Special Relationship

• Main Author: Haglund, David G. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: United States-Politics and government.; United States-Study and teaching.; World politics.; Civilization-History.; United States-History.; Great Britain-Politics and government.; US Politics.; American Culture.; Political History.; Cultural History.; US History.; British Politics.

This book discusses "culture" and the origins of the Anglo-American special relationship (the AASR). The bitter dispute between ethnic groups in the US from 1914-17-a period of time characterized as the "culture wars"-laid the groundwork both for US intervention in the European b...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Identity, Culture Wars, and the Origins of the Anglo-American Special Relationship: A Huntingtonian Prelude
• 2. The Puzzle of the Missing Anglo-American Alliance: 1914 and All That
• 3. April 1917 Revisited: The Debate over the War's Spread to America
• 4. America's Missing Diaspora: The "Hawthornian Majority" and Anglo-American Relations
• 5. The German- and Irish-American Challengers to Hawthornian Identity
• 6. Getting Their English Up: The Culture Wars and the Ending of American Neutrality, 1914-17.