num_pages: 428
description: Since the end of the Cold War so-called experts have been predicting the eclipse of America's "special relationship" with Britain. But as events have shown, especially in the wake of 9/11, the political and cultural ties between America and Britain have grown stronger. Blood, Class and Empire examines the dynamics of this relationship, its many cultural manifestations -- the James Bond series, PBS "brit Kitsch," Rudyard Kipling -- and explains why it still persists. Contrarian, essayist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens notes that while the relationship is usually presented as a matter of tradition, manners, and common culture, sanctified by wartime alliance, the special ingredient is empire; transmitted from an ancien regime that has tried to preserve and renew itself thereby. England has attempted to play Greece to the American Rome, but ironically having encouraged the United States to become an equal partner in the business of empire, Britain found itself supplanted.
language: English
title: Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship
titlecomplete: Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship (Nation Books)
characters: Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Joseph Stalin, Clement Attlee, Karl Marx, Henry Kissinger, William Shakespeare, Gerald Ford, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Rudyard Kipling, George H.W. Bush, Oscar Wilde, Henry Adams, Christopher Hitchens, William Jennings Bryan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Leon Trotsky, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy, Thomas Jefferson, John Major, Bertrand Russell, Lyndon B. Johnson, George Orwell, Thomas Paine
genres: Essays, American, Politics, United States, International Relations, British Literature, Nonfiction, The United States Of America, History, Journalism
ratings_count: 394
places: Charlottesville, Virginia
publisher: Bold Type Books