The Great Anglo-Celtic divide in the history of American foreign relations
By: Thomas A. Breslin
Series: Praeger series on American political culture
Publisher: ABC-CLIO; ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9780313397936; 9780313397943
Subjects: Ethnic attitudes; British Americans; Political culture; Irish Americans; Presidents; Ethnic identity; Ethnicity; Foreign relations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The bi-cultural roots of American foreign policy; title: Rum versus whiskey : the faithless first Anglo-American republic, the break with France, and the persecution of the alien Irish; title: Cavaliers and Irish : an alliance renewed in America; title: The rapacious first Celtic-American republic : the age of Jackson; title: From the Mexican War to the brink of Civil War; title: The crusading second Anglo-American republic : the puritan counterattack and the yankees' global ambitions; title: Confronting the English cousins; title: The crusading second Celtic-American republic : McKinley's anti-Catholic crusade; title: Bullies in the pulpit : foreign warfare under the Celts from Theodore Roosevelt to Wilson; title: "Normalcy" : the grand plan of the third yankee republic and the global pursuit of raw materials; title: The age of terror: the third Celtic-American republic : Truman's presidency and the birth of the cold  war; title: German-American interlude : Eisenhower's legacy of fear and ashes; title: From brink to bog to helicopter; title: War drums : Carter and Reagan; title: The fourth Anglo-American republic : the first oil and petrodollar war; title: Virginia Cassidy's son : an Irish-American interlude; title: The prodigal son : Bush junior and the second oil and petrodollar war.